On This Day – 6 February

#OTD in 1724 First performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin’ BWV 144 performed by the Netherlands Bach Society

#OTD in 1727 First performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn’ BWV 157, performed by James Gilchrist, tenor Klaus Mertens, bass Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir dir. Ton Koopman

#OTD in 1813 First performance of #Rossini’s #Tancredi

#OTD in 1851 First performance of #Schumann’s Symphony in E flat major, Op. 97 ‘Rhenish’ , performed by hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony ∙ dir. Marek Janowski

#OTD in 1909 First peformance of #Stravinsky’s Feu d’artifice, performed by hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) dir. Paavo Järvi

#OTD in 1920 First performance of #Rachmaninoff’s The Bells

#OTD in 1924 First performance of #Bloch’s Baal Shem, performed by Joshua Bell with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra dir. David Zinman

#OTD in 1944 First performance of #Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto, Op.42, performed by Mari Kodama (piano) with SWR Symphonieorchester dir. Kent Nagano

#OTD in 1952 Accession of #ElizabethII – Herbert Howells – Behold, O God, Our Defender, performed by the Choir of Westminster Abbey

#OTD in 1959 First performance of #Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine, performed by Barbara Hannigan (voice), dir. l’Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France

#HappyBirthday to Vasily #Safonov born #OTD in 1852, here recorded in 1890 singing for Tchaikovsky

#HappyBirthday to María Teresa #Vera born #OTD in 1895

#HappyBirthday to Claudio #Arrau born #OTD in 1903

#OTD in 1497 the death of Johannes #Ockeghem – Deo Gratias for 36 voices