Musical Diaries
Donald Macleod looks at some of the great diarists of the musical world. 1: Vincent and Mary Novello. The
Novellos set out in 1829 on a Mozart pilgrimage, visiting people and places associated with the great composer. They kept a journal, a chaotic jumble of scrap paper, unnumbered, unbound and tied together with ribbon, and jotted down in the stagecoach as they travelled from place to place. The journal was rediscovered after the Second World
War, jammed in the drawer of a house in Italy. Including excerpts from: Mozart String Quartet in D minor, K421 Emerson Quartet
Mozart Symphony No 36 in C (Linz) Prague Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
Haydn The Seven Last Words Amadeus Quartet
Mozart, compl Siissmayr Requiem Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood Producer Tony Sellors