Your greatest concerts you attended

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vandermolen

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Horenstein conducting Bruckner's 8th Symphony London Proms c 1970/71 (this was released on BBC Legends)

Pritchard conducting Shostakovich Symphony 11 (London RFH c 1980 - recording appeared on BBC Radio Classics.

Hickox 1913 version of Vaughan Williams's 'A London Symphony' (Barbican) - last performed c 1920

Gliere's 'Ilya Muromets symphony ' (London about six or seven years ago)

Jurowski conducting Miaskovsky Symphony No 6 - London this year

Hickox conducts Vaughan Williams 'Pilgrim's Progress' in London and, at a separate concert, Symphony No 9 shortly before his death.

Wand conducting Bruckner's 9th - Wand's last concert in London

Boult conducts Vaughan Williams Job, Symphony No 8 etc, 12th October 1972 Festival Hall London on 100th birthday of Vaughan Williams+ Symphony No 5 a few days later in Westminster Abbey.


Leon Botstein conducting John Foulds' 'A World Requiem' London, Albert Hall, November 2007 (on Chandos CD)

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).