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...Led by Georg Solti and Bernard Haitink, they started to perform and record the music of Elgar, most English of composers. None formed a more lasting bond with it than Daniel Barenboim....
...Existing recordings are still dominated by the electric Georg Solti from the 1970s and Klaus Tennstedt’s grandly romantic audio and video recordings from the 1980s and ’90s....
...Leaving aside pianist-conductors, such as Daniel Barenboim, there have been some prestigious duos, including Wilhelm Fürtwängler with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Wolfgang Sawallisch with Margaret Price, and Georg Solti...
...The slow movement is wistful, rather than flecked with the macabre colours found by a Bernstein or Solti....
...We have come a long way since the first commercial recordings of Der Ring des Nibelungen by Georg Solti and Herbert von Karajan, which made recording history....
...It is just over 50 years since the first complete recording of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Solti and released by Decca. It was greeted as a historic achievement at the time....
...Only Georg Solti in this hall years ago would have outrun them. ★★★☆☆ southbankcentre.co.uk...
...Karajan in Berlin, Ormandy in Philadelphia, Reiner and later Solti in Chicago, all had an impact that can still be felt through the recordings they left....
...Think of Klemperer and Böhm, or Solti still a dynamo to the end, or Günter Wand, whose international career only took off after he turned 70....
...Unlike the previous generation of Hungarian conductors, such as Antal Doráti and Georg Solti, Fischer sees the music less as sharp-edged sounds and rhythms, more as a tapestry of wonderfully imaginative,...
...Unusually, Solti insisted on performing Verdi’s score in its entirety down to every last crotchet and quaver. There have been 150 performances of Richard Eyre’s handsome production since then....
...Richard Wagner Die Walküre Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, October 1961/Georg Solti (Testament) 4 CDs...
...Founded 19 years ago by the conductor Georg Solti, the WOP comprises section principals and concertmasters from leading ensembles all over the world and gives only sporadic performances....
...What the performance missed was that dark, earthy, violent edge that another Hungarian, Georg Solti, so often brought to this music in the same hall....
...His tigerish energy kept the music pounding forwards and the brass tore at the climaxes with little restraint – coincidentally the same sort of bold and brash Wagner that Georg Solti, former musical director...
...Solti’s only rival is Joseph Keilberth....
...This was not the outstanding example of a foreign violinist bringing Elgar to our shores – Kyung-Wha Chung, with Solti in the 1970s, remains unforgettable – but it was more than good enough. ★★★☆☆...
...A line of people holding “ticket wanted” signs is not what you expect to see before a performance of one of Richard Strauss’s lesser-known operas....
...Perhaps those visiting administrators might be thinking of importing Terfel in Richard Jones’s Welsh National Opera production of Die Meistersinger?...
...Of studio versions, Solti on Decca still heads the list....
...Anybody who was around 25 years ago, when Sir Georg Solti was the LPO’s principal conductor, will recall what a native Hungarian could make of it. Tel 0871 663 2500...
...The LPO has a fine history in this work – Solti in the 1970s set a benchmark for how interpreters from overseas might rethink Elgar, and though the American Alsop did not remake the music with the same imaginative...
...This is the interpretation Eyre’s ultra-traditional Traviata has been waiting for, and I doubt whether, since its opening night with Solti and Gheorghiu 13 seasons ago, it has been received with such rapture...
...From space-age Puccini to vintage champagne: Richard Fairman chooses 10 classical CDs and DVDs 1....
...The opening funeral march was a lukewarm affair, a long way from the scalding impulse that Bernstein or Solti used to give it....
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