Anderson anecdote: Present at rehearsals for this concert (Henry Wood Hall), during a break, before Enigma was prepared, I suggested to Leonard that he might like to have antiphonal violins for the Elgar… Duly sorted.
Rest of programme: Hindemith’s Concert Music for Strings and Brass (Opus 50, a masterpiece for the Boston Symphony & Koussevitzky that is too little heard) & Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.2 with Leif Ove Andsnes.
And – bonus – here is Hindemith’s Opus 50 with the composer conducting the Chicago Symphony: