Sergei Prokofiev in Saint Petersburg Conservatory - 20 April, 1913, in the afternoon
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 20 April 1913, page 374:
In the afternoon, to get some air, I went into the Conservatoire and sat with Max listening to the final exam performances of the external students ('external to music', as Nikolayev describes them). What a glorious work Rachmaninov's First Concerto is (the first movement)! Even allowing for the thinness of the musical material and a certain immaturity, how lovely is its representation of sincerity, tenderness, and a general feeling of delight. On top of that its pianism is beyond reproach and it is utterly free of routine or uninteresting passages for the soloist. I am speaking here of the… more >>
Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 20 April 1913. In Anthony Phillips (ed.), Sergey Prokofiev diaries 1907-1914 (Ithaca N.Y, 2006), p. 374. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1438601317653 accessed: 1 December, 2024
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Piano Concerto, first movement
written by Sergei Rachmaninoff |
performed by External student performers at the Imperial Conservatoire |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 20 April, 1913, in the afternoon |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |