Denis Matthews in Vienna - 1950
from In Pursuit of Music, page 136:
In Grinzing we sampled the heurige, the new wine, in a garden overhung with vines, to the music of Johann Strauss. With apologies to the composer of Rosenkavalier the saying ‘If Strauss, let it be Johann; if Richard, let it be Wagner’ never seemed more apt, for we ended up with an impromptu Meistersinger evening at the Hutterstrassers’, the… more >>
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Denis Matthews, In Pursuit of Music (London, 1966), p. 136. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1477602630327 accessed: 18 September, 2024
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written by Johann Strauss |
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Four Last Songs
written by Johann Strauss |
performed by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Denis Matthews |
The Mastersingers
written by Richard Wagner |
performed by Denis Matthews and friends |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1950 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, outdoors |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:10:31 +0100
Approved on Wed, 17 May 2017 08:11:51 +0100