Richard Temple Savage in Covent Garden - April, 1937
from A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician, pages 53-54:
In the April season Flagstad was back to delight and it was out first "Ring" with Wilhelm Furtwängler....
The great man had a very strange beat, the only word to describe it is - wobbly.... For example: the opening of "Siegfried" has two bars timpani roll and then two bassoons come in, in thirds. Furtwangler would start quite steadily for two bars and then, just before the bassoon entry, he would begin to wobble and they didn't know where they were; poor Jack and George Alexandra would be sweating with terror....
Furtwängler considered the "Ring" purely orchestrally, it seemed to me. … more >>
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Richard Temple Savage, A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician (Newton Abbot, 1988), p. 53-54. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1429093278204 accessed: 2 November, 2024
Listeners
Richard Temple Savage
1909-
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Der Ring des Nibelungen
written by Richard Wagner |
performed by other unspecified singers, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Kirsten Flagstad, Lauritz Melchior, London Philharmonic Orchestra |
Experience Information
Date/Time | April, 1937 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by iepearson on Wed, 15 Apr 2015 11:21:18 +0100
Approved on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:38:07 +0000