p.84 Beside me now is a yellowed and faded cutting from the Pall Mall Gazette reviewing this concert [in London, December 1915, conducted by Wassily Safonoff (1852-19??)]. The critic [wrote that] . . . De Greef's performance of the Chopin [F minor] Concerto combined "a vein of tender sentiment with a certain formal primness . . . It suggested 'A Professor's Love Story'."

. . . Beecham assumed direction of the remaining concerts in the following February [1916] . . .

[In Beecham's remaining concerts in London this 1915-1916 season] Chopin's F minor Piano Concerto appeared again, but the soloist this time was Pachmann. Gone was the "tender sentiment" and "formal primness" of de Greef; instead the Pall Mall Gazette now reports of Pachmann: "Within the restrictions imposed by the accompaniment he was his own irrepressible self, as amusing in his antics but as perfect as ever in his performance. In response to the applause he added a couple of Etudes, the second of which ran into the O flat Waltz [sic], which apparently expressed the pianist's delight at his cordial reception—he all but danced it." Of Beecham, the Gazette reports that his "beautiful interpretations p.85 imparted dignity to the cumulative effect of the entire concert".