Chopin in Warsaw - June, 1830
from Selected Correspondance of Fryderyck Chopin, page 47:
[Mlle Sontag's] diminuendi are the non plus ultra, her portamenti wonderful and her scales, particularly the chromatic scales, are unsurpassable. She sang us an aria of Mercadante very, very, very charmingly, and Rode's Variations, especially the last one with the trills, couldn't have been better. The Variations on a Swiss theme gave such pleasure that, when she was recalled, instead of making deep curtsies she sang them again!
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Bronislaw Edward Sydow (Comp) and Chopin, and Arthur Hedley (ed.), Selected Correspondance of Fryderyck Chopin (Prescot, 1962), p. 47. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1426077269583 accessed: 1 September, 2024
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Aria
written by Mercadante |
performed by Mile Sontag |
Variations
written by Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode |
performed by Mile Sontag |
Experience Information
Date/Time | June, 1830 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by Meg Barclay on Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:34:29 +0000
Approved on Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:49:28 +0100