Georg Henschel in Russia
from Musings & memories of a musician, pages 58-59:
The performance of the Messiah went off very well. I was in capital form and rather strange to our ideas of an oratorio audience's attitude had to repeat the air " Why do the Nations." Rubinstein, Leschetitsky, Mme. Essipoff, Louis Brassin, Leopold Auer, Helmy Raab, the charming Prima Donna of the Imperial Opera all friends and colleagues of Davidoff, who conducted were present, and we all met again on the following night at Leschetitsky's house, Mme. Essipoff receiving the company. These weekly receptions in the salons of the … more >>
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Georg Henschel, Musings & memories of a musician (London, 1918), p. 58-59. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1453053339147 accessed: 21 April, 2018
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The Messiah
written by George Frideric Handel |
performed by Georg Henschel |
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Medium | live |
Listening Environment | indoors, in the company of others, in public |
Originally submitted by Meg Barclay on Sun, 17 Jan 2016 17:55:39 +0000
Approved on Sat, 30 Jan 2016 15:01:51 +0000