Denis Matthews in No specified - in the middle of the 1930's
from In Pursuit of Music, page 59:
In my early musical browsings I had been sceptical of the difference between this or that ‘reading’ of the score. I went to hear the music, and provided the orchestra was a good one the conductor scarcely mattered: he was obviously needed to keep large forces together, but the less he interfered the better. But when Koussevitsky, great conductor though he may have … more >>
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Denis Matthews, In Pursuit of Music (London, 1966), p. 59. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1477470720930 accessed: 3 October, 2024
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Eroica Symphony
written by Beethoven |
performed by Serge Koussevitzky |
Experience Information
Date/Time | in the middle of the 1930's |
Medium | broadcast |
Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:32:01 +0100
Approved on Tue, 16 May 2017 15:42:29 +0100