Arnold Bax in Queen's Hall - 1 February, 1933
from Letter from Arnold Bax to Herbert Howells, 3rd Feb 1933, page 160:
My dear Herbert, I am always grateful to you for your delightfully generous appreciations. If any among my friends take the trouble to write to me about my work it means a very great deal, and you and 'R.V.W.' are particularly nice about this. It was a very fine performance of Fand - nearly as good as Tommy Beecham's (to me) never-to-be-forgotten effort a little while ago [23rd November 1931]. Personally, I love that work of Ralph's [Piano Concerto] and indeed like it better than anything else of his that I know. I don't think that it is right formally at the end, for that last cadenza … more >>
Lewis Foreman, Letter from Arnold Bax to Herbert Howells, 3rd Feb 1933. In From Parry to Britten: British Music in Letters, 1900 - 1945 (London, 1987), p. 160. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1414582465678 accessed: 11 December, 2024
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Piano Concerto
written by Ralph Vaughan Williams |
performed by Adrian Boult, BBC Symphonic Orchestra, Harriet Cohen |
Sea Drift (Delius)
written by Delius |
performed by Adrian Boult, BBC Symphonic Orchestra |
The Garden of Fand
written by Arnold Bax |
performed by Adrian Boult, BBC Symphonic Orchestra |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1 February, 1933 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
First performance of the Vaughan Williams Piano Concerto.