Brahms, Symphonies Nos. 1-4, Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3 and 10 and Haydn Variations, and Beethoven, “Coriolan Overture” and “Leonore No. 2” overture, performed by Wilhelm Furtwangler conducting the ...
Books continue to proliferate about the great German conductor, who died 40 years ago. This one by Dallas-based music critic Ardoin is perhaps the most useful of them, a deeply informed guide to the ...
Perhaps no work embodies the Mahler mystique quite so much as his Symphony No. 7, performed this weekend by Jahja Ling and the Florida Orchestra. Sprawling over five movements _ with both the second ...
IT IS ONLY when speaking of great manifold spirit such as Gustav Mahler, Whose preoccupations so forcefully resonate through our own anxieties and reflections, that the music reviewer feels other than ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Elisabeth Furtwangler was the widow of Wilhelm Furtwangler, one of the most controversial and charismatic orchestral conductors, whose ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Bruno Walter was one of the greatest figures in 20th-century conducting, and yet it is very hard to say what was so special about his ...