Joseph Szigeti - in the beginning of the 1920's
from With strings attached- Reminiscences and reflections, 2nd edition, enlarged, page 355:
Another satisfaction of this decade was being entrusted with the introduction of Frank Martin’s new Violin Concerto at the Paris “Festival des Chefs d’Oeuvres du XXème Siècle,” at the Edinburgh and Holland festivals, at La Scala in Milan, in Geneva, Lausanne, and Brussels, and later with the New York Philharmonic (Mitropoulos), and in Cleveland (Szell), Cincinnati (Johson), and Dallas (Hendl). I had “discovered” (for myself, that is!) Frank Martin very early in his and my careers, in the early 1920’s, when Ansermet gave the first performance of the young composer’s … more >>
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Joseph Szigeti, With strings attached- Reminiscences and reflections, 2nd edition, enlarged (New York, 1967), p. 355. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1434462557437 accessed: 10 September, 2024
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written by Frank Martin |
performed by Ernest Ansermet |
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Date/Time | in the beginning of the 1920's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by tlisboa on Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:49:17 +0100
Approved on Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:58:54 +0000