Denis Matthews in Leeds - between 1954 and 1955
from In Pursuit of Music, page 122:
[Maurice] Miles’s successor in Leeds was Nicolai Malko, who conducted Tchaikowsky’s Fourth Symphony as a noble, dignified masterpiece instead of the hysterical travesty it can so easily become. But Malko’s hold on the orchestra was so strong that it once led to an extraordinary incident. We were playing the first Beethoven concerto and during a purely … more >>
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Denis Matthews, In Pursuit of Music (London, 1966), p. 122. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1477558442925 accessed: 8 October, 2024
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Symphony No. 4
written by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky |
performed by Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, Nikolai Malko |
Piano Concerto No. 1
written by Beethoven |
performed by Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, Nikolai Malko, Denis Matthews |
Experience Information
Date/Time | between 1954 and 1955 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Matthews leaves the date uncertain in his memoir, but Malko was conductor of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra for only one season, 1954-55.
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:54:03 +0100
Approved on Tue, 16 May 2017 16:41:16 +0100