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Searched for tempo in Diaries (79 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1923-10-06

    ... . From Klenau (letter): questions arising out of the "Eroica", mainly concerning the tempo. At 2:00 into the ticket office: did not receive any tickets. From Dr. Kalmus (letter via messenger) the Payne models for the Brandenburg Concerto and a letter= OJ ...

  • Diary entry for 1923-11-20

    ... pieces, seeing that the work lacks dramatic effect as it is; the winds and the strings do not mix, the tempos are frequently much too slow, and some are too fast. The heavy effect of monotonous rhythm unmistakable – and yet the work has high, supreme ...

  • Diary entry for 1924-03-13

    ... . Rothberger surprises me with the slowest imaginable tempo in his playing of Handel-Brahms; I ask how he arrived at this and he recounts, Pollak said to him recently that he = Pollak always only practices slowly and then, after three years, the required speed ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-04-19

    ... draft. Radio: 6:00–7:30: Preuß sings Schwanengesang; the accompanist, Director Ast, at the lowest level. Preuß very good, only occasionally sets the wrong tempos, "Atlas" too fast, "Ihr Bild" too slow, "Am Meer" not enough movement, etc. Hear a few items ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-10-07

    ... symphony by Haydn in E flat major. Beethoven's Gellert Songs, arranged for orchestra by Spengel: the inner parts not so well handled; they appear in the orchestra in a pianistic style, so to speak. Brahms's Haydn Variations with the most distorted tempo ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-10-15

    ... – a refreshing evening, the tempos mainly correct, in spite of certain liberties taken in the dances. We learn over the radio of Eckener's arrival in America. ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-10-30

    ... grosso No. 3 in F major, a thoroughly unmusical arrangement, in which the mainly correct tempos cannot be realized. Sauer plays his Piano Concerto; von Malipiero Impressions of Spring, which apparently are not written in any language, least of all in a ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-11-03

    ... Stephen's Cathedral of Mozart's Requiem, a thoroughly good, secure achievement with respect to the tempos and the roles of the chorus and soloists; at 9 o'clock the Kassowitz Orchestra plays several pieces from Beethoven's Creatures of Prometheus. ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-12-09

    ... Beethoven sagte: sentendo nuova forza! "Feeling new strength," Beethoven's tempo marking of the contrasting sections of the "Heiliger Dankgesang" from his String Quartet, Op. 132. An Jonas (Br.= OJ 5/18, [3b]): als Zeugnis geltend! An Rinn Brief begonnen ...

  • Diary entry for 1931-09-30

    ... Busch and Fritz Busch, Händel’s Concerto grosso in G minor (tempos wrong); Beethoven’s Violin Concerto – very beautiful cadenza to the first movement. (The announcer: Adolf Busch played a Stradivarius, one of the last violins completed by the master ...

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