John Mansfield Thomson

"PreludeWhat was it like to be present when Liszt or Paderewski performed?How strange did the avant-garde music of Wagner and Berlioz sound to the ears of a contemporary audience? What was the atmosphere of the eighteenth-century theatre? These and hundreds of similar questions arise as we listen...

"Treludehat was it like to be present when Liszt or Paderewski performed?How strange did the avant-garde music of Wagner and Berlioz sound to the ears of a contemporary audience? What was the atmosphere of the eighteenth-century theatre? These and hundreds of similar questions arise as we listen to...