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Even in his disastrous New York period, Barbirolli made important contributions to music. Here he conducted several Britten premieres, including the Sinfonia da Requiem, and the Violin Concerto. Nonetheless, he could not control the orchestra as it needed to be controlled, and was left to return home, disheartened...
...near-miracle which Barbirolli wrought with the Halle Orchestra is legendary. The orchestra had been without a permanent conductor since the retirement of Hamilton Harty, a decade before Barbirolli's arrival in 1943. Barbirolli managed to make Halle one of the world's leading orchestras, and in the process gained more control over his own florid style. The recordings which he made with the Halle during his decades of association with it are some of the finest in the literature. The Mahler First Symphony which he did with them for Vanguard is a definitive version, a masterpiece which puts...
...many ways like a pet which grows so used to one master that it is unable to adapt to a new one. Any orchestra conducted by Toscanini was, by definition, an orchestra designed and molded by Toscanini, used to his style, his interpretations, his way of life. Barbirolli could never have hoped to succeed under such circumstances, and indeed...
...Barbirolli's career was long, and certainly distinguished. Educated at the Royal Academy of Music, he was a successful cellist while scarcely out of his teens. In his early twenties, he began his conducting career, first as a choral conductor, then as a conductor with the British National Opera. It was here that his conducting style was shaped. For years, he concentrated on Italian opera, almost to the exclusion of every form of music, and developed his free-wheeling, easy, unquestionably romantic form of conducting. After some years with the British National Opera, and later the Scottish Symphony, came...
HAVING rehabilitated the Halle, Barbirolli set himself higher tasks. He rejuvenated the Salzburg Festival, which had lapsed during the war, and there he conducted the newly discovered Mozart Oboe Concerto, with his wife, Evelyn, as soloist. His career flourished as he was invited to serve as guest conductor of one of the finest orchestras on the continent, and in the United States he accepted the post of conductor of the Houston Symphony, in addition to his duties at Halle...