Mrs. Bridge et al. in Queen's Hall - 14 February, 1934
from Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938, page 200:
After dinner Mrs. B & I go off to Queen's Hall for B.B.C. concert. Boult conducts a dull & ignorant perf. of Oberon overture & then Schnabel is rather disappointing in Brahms D min concerto - tho' the slow mov. was mostly beautiful. Job of Vaughan Williams seemed interminable.* There are some nice things in it if you aren't tired of folk song modalism - but most of it is heavy, dull, imitative & amateurish.
John Evans (ed.), Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 (:London, 2009), p. 200. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1437907700158 accessed: 3 January, 2025
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Job, A Masque for Dancing
written by Ralph Vaughan Williams |
performed by Adrian Boult, BBC Symphonic Orchestra |
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
written by Brahms |
performed by Artur Schnabel, Adrian Boult, BBC Symphonic Orchestra |
Overture to Oberon
written by Carl Maria von Weber |
performed by Adrian Boult, BBC Symphonic Orchestra |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 14 February, 1934 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
*Weber Overture to Oberon; Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15; Vaughan Williams Job, A Masque for Dancing, ballet conceived by Geoffrey Keynes and Gwen Raverat, based on William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job, (1927-9).