Denis Matthews - between June, 1935 and 1936
from In Pursuit of Music, pages 59-60:
On the whole I had come to rely on Sir Henry Wood’s straightforward no-nonsense view of the classics, and the little I had read and seen of the star-system, with its exaggerated claims and inflated publicity, in which the composers’ names were of secondary account, left me indifferent; but I had received a decided shock when listening-in to the BBC’s much-publicised music … more >>
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Denis Matthews, In Pursuit of Music (London, 1966), p. 59-60. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1477471648433 accessed: 6 December, 2024
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La Mer
written by Claude Debussy |
performed by Arturo Toscanini, BBC Symphonic Orchestra |
Act Three of Die Meistersinger
written by Richard Wagner |
performed by Arturo Toscanini |
Symphony No. 7
written by Beethoven |
performed by Arturo Toscanini, BBC Symphonic Orchestra |
Symphony No. 4
written by Johannes Brahms |
performed by Arturo Toscanini, BBC Symphonic Orchestra |
Pastoral Symphony
written by Beethoven |
Experience Information
Date/Time | between June, 1935 and 1936 |
Medium | broadcast |
Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:47:28 +0100
Approved on Tue, 16 May 2017 15:38:07 +0100