Daphne Muir et al. in London - 20 November, 1929
from The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner, pages 48-49:
...in the evening I took Daphne Muir to the second Courtauld concert. The Bach suite in D. Anton Bruckner's 8th symphony. The conductor was Otto Klemperer. He was very good and played Bach overture, as Daphne said, as if it were by Beethoven. Before the air there was an outburst of anxious coughing. He waited, grew impatient; turned and scythed the audience with such a look. Then he went to the air played twice as slow as ever I have heard it before, and extremely ode on a grecian urn-like. The Bruckner I found hard to stomach. It is all … more >>
Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Claire Harman (ed.), The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner (:London, 1995), p. 48. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1442400223883 accessed: 7 December, 2024
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Symphony in D minor (Bruckner)
written by Anton Bruckner |
performed by Otto Klemperer |
Suite in D
written by Bach |
performed by Otto Klemperer |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 20 November, 1929 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |