Denis Matthews in At home in Royal Leamington Spa - in the beginning of the 1930's
from In Pursuit of Music, page 56:
[Beethoven’s] Ninth Symphony was the most momentous exploration of my early teens and I owed it all to the gramophone, the friend of my formative years […] there was the enormous advantage of getting to know music intimately, especially when listening was linked with a study of the score. The … more >>
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Denis Matthews, In Pursuit of Music (London, 1966), p. 56. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1477170873131 accessed: 14 October, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers'Stormy Weather' | |
'On Wings of Song'
written by Felix Mendelssohn |
performed by Jascha Heifetz |
Piano Concerto
written by Robert Schumann |
performed by Fanny Davies |
Symphony No. 5
written by Beethoven |
performed by Franz Schalk |
Étude in G flat major
written by Chopin |
performed by Alfred Cortot |
Symphony No. 9, 'Choral'
written by Beethoven |
performed by Albert Coates |
'Lo! Here the gentle lark'
written by Henry Bishop |
performed by Amelita Galli-Curci |
'My Ohio Home' | performed by Gracie Fields |
Experience Information
Date/Time | in the beginning of the 1930's |
Medium | playback |
Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Sat, 22 Oct 2016 22:14:33 +0100
Approved on Tue, 16 May 2017 14:17:38 +0100