Musical Club Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
31 December 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Dec 1868, Evening

Program Details

Venue not given. M. Rivarde presided.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  César [cellist] Alard
2)
Fantaisie et variations brillantes sur la valse de Schubert intitulée Le désir
aka Desir; Sehnsuchts-Walzer
Composer(s): Servais
Participants:  César [cellist] Alard

Citations

1)
Review: Courrier des États-Unis, 21 December 1868, 3.

“CHRONIQUE HEBDOMADAIRE. – Yesterday evening, at the musical club presided over by M. Rivarde, [M. Alard] played a fantasy by Servais on le Désir by Beethoven [i.e., Schubert], which was acclaimed furiously. He had never before been so inspired: the chromatic scales fell in pearled and pricked notes with perfect clarity; then, in the midst of a large and grave theme, there arose darts of extraordinary boldness, scattered with harmonic notes falling on the principal melody like drops of pure crystal . . . . "