Isaak Glikman in Russia - late May, 1936
from Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman, pages xx-xxi:
At the end of May 1936, the world-famous conductor Otto Klemperer came to Leningrad to give two concerts. Klemperer was an ardent admirer of Shostakovich’s First Symphony and had been one of the first foreign conductors to programme it. Among other things, one purpose of his visit was to get to know Shostakovich’s new Fourth Symphony, about which he had already heard reports. On 29 May, I went to the Great Hall of the Philharmonia to listen to Klemperer rehearsing Beethoven’s Third and Fifth Symphonies. On the platform stepped an extremely tall, powerfully built and … more >>
Dmitri Shostakovich / Isaac Glikman, Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman (Queen Square, London, 2001), p. xx-xxi. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431351729781 accessed: 12 December, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers
Beethoven's Third and Fifth symphonies
written by Beethoven |
performed by Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra |
Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony
written by Dmitri Shostakovich |
performed by Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra |
Experience Information
Date/Time | late May, 1936 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | indoors, in public |