Tama Matheson

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770 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · More Rosebud - Tchaikovsky · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Absolute silence.

A terrible echoing hiatus opened between us.

And I looked at him.

I thought, did he like it?

Did he hate it?

I had no idea.

He frowned down at the music.

I thought, say something, for God's sake, anything, even if it's not gushing praise.

And then he said, Pyotr, it is grotesque.

It is absolute garbage.

It is a piece of derivative nonsense.

You have pinch bits from here and there, rags of lit off and scraps of Chopin and bits of Schumann all flung together without any organization or harmony or intelligence.

It was an absolute piece of garbage and he was sorry I'd wasted my time on such filth.

and I can't tell you the tone of voice in which he said this.

And then he had the gall to say, but if you will make some emendations which I will suggest, then we can save the peace from utter oblivion.

I grabbed the score off the piano, I marched to the door, and I said, Nikolai, I'm going to the publisher, and I assure you I will not change a single note.

I shall publish it exactly as it stands.

And that is what I did.

I took away the dedication, which had been to him, and gave it to Hans von Bülow.

And then the epilogue, or the palinode, let's say, to that story is that

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