Wilhelm Ganz in St James's Hall - 1874
from Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life, pages 129-30:
At the sixth concert Madame Regan-Schimon was the vocalist and sang "Lieder" by Schubert in beautiful style. Madame Essipoff made her second appearance and played Rubinstein's Concerto in D minor, achieving another triumph. Since Rubinstein played this concerto at one of these concerts no one has ever had such a success in it as she had. She also played Liszt's "Hungarian Fantasia," then little known here, with great fire and brilliance. After Madame Essipoff had left England she wrote me a letter in German, in which she said: "Last night, at half-past twelve at night, I knocked and rang … more >>
Wilhelm Ganz, Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life. In Internet Archive (London, 1913), p. 129-30. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1436201856954 accessed: 11 December, 2024
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Hungarian Fantasia
written by Franz Liszt |
performed by Annette Essipoff, New Philharmonic Orchestra London |
Lieder
written by Franz Schubert |
performed by Madame Regan-Schimon |
Piano Concerto in D minor
written by Anton Rubinstein |
performed by Annette Essipoff, New Philharmonic Orchestra London |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1874 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
6th concert in 1874 New Philharmonic season