#malcolm sargent

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Happy birthday Malcolm Sargent

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Happy birthday Malcolm Sargent

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Happy birthday Malcolm Sargent

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On Radio 3's morning show 'Essential Classics' this week, Rob Cowan's artist of the week has been conductor and composer Malcolm Sargent. Here's one of those splendid 'pretend you're conducting something' shots from the BBC archive. The picture was taken on 11 August 1947 so it's right in the middle of that year's Proms season and Sargent was almost certainly in the midst of rehearsals for that evening's Prom - the London Symphony Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky, Starokadomsky and Rimsky-Korsakov (with an overture by John Ireland mid-concert). This was Sargent's first year as principal conductor at The Proms and, like Henry Wood before him, he conducted almost every concert. Details of every Prom since the first season in 1895 in the Proms Archive.

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Russian ballet dancer, Rudolf Nureyev at a rehearsal with the English conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent (1895 – 1967).

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Schnabel & Sargent

An account of one of the Schnabel/Beethoven sessions during the 1930s:    Coughs, off-beat entries and other mischances were not the only problems a conductor had to face. Like many artists of ebullient and witty temperament, Schnabel had black interludes during which he would lament, first, the day he was born, then, the day he became a concert pianist -- specifically, a concert pianist with a recording contract chained to his ankle. Sitting down for one of the concerto takes, he grimaced with repugnance. "O, why," he asked rhetorically, "am I married to this damned machine?" "You're a lucky man," countered [Malcolm] Sargent. "You can get a divorce tomorrow if you want to."    Later, when all was set and the buzzer sounded, Schnabel threw up his hands mutinously, put on a martyr's look and groaned: "I feel like Prometheus in chains. O, why do I make myself play down to this machine?" "You do it," explained Sargent patiently, "for the same reasons as the orchestra and myself do it." "And for what reason is that?" asked Schnabel, suddenly curious. "For money."    Sargent's biographer Charles Reid mentions that this comment provoked "a general laugh, in which Schnabel joined--with reason. If the money consoled, he enjoyed rather greater consolation than Sargent, whose fee at the time worked out to be no more than £20 per concerto session." (Allan Evans, from the booklet to the Pearl remastering of the Beethoven/Schnabel concertos)

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Bruch: Violin Concerto #1 In G Minor, Op. 26 - 2. Adagio

Jascha Heifetz, violin

Malcolm Sargent: New Symphony Orchestra Of London

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Personal Portrait: Rudolf Nureyev