Myra Hess remembers her debut with Beecham

Myra Hess remembers her debut with Beecham

Daily Comfort Zone

norman lebrecht

August 25, 2024

An extremely rare interview with the grande dame of British pianism, heroine of the Blitz.

She also talks of making false crescendos to mask the noise of flying bombs. ‘When the bomb went away, I made a decrescendo.’

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