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...QUALITY of this season has been good, if simply for the variety of conductors who have been invited to fill in for Steinberg. Unfortunately, there persists the tendency to stick to the warhorses and shy away from experimentation, as witnessed by the disastrous concerts given by Carlo Maria Giulini. His histrionic performance of the "Pathetique" Symphony pleased the Friday afternoon matrons but caused a furor which led the members of the orchestra to request publicly that several Boston critics be banned from future performances. Seiji Ozawa's interpretation of Carmina Burana was much better, and Claudio Abbado's choice...
...year of graduate work at the Free University in Berlin. At Manhattan, Gelles studied under Michael Steinberg, a distinguished musicologist who now writes reviews for the Boston Globe. Like Steinberg, Critic Gelles insists upon high musical standards. Four weeks ago in the Globe, Steinberg chided Carlo Maria Giulini, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. If Danny Kaye or Victor Borge had conducted "with such crazed dislocation of tempo and with such prodigality in expression of tragic suffering and deep knee-bends," wrote Steinberg, "the audience would have been in stitches." Two weeks ago in the Herald Traveler, Gelles remarked...
Amsterdam's renowned, 78-year-old Concertgebouw Orchestra, on the eve of a 1956 performance of the Cherubini Requiem in C Minor, desperately needed a substitute for ailing Conductor Carlo Maria Giulini; it turned to 27year-old Bernard Haitink, an assistant conductor and former second violinist of the Dutch Radio Orchestra, who had led the work not long before. "No," replied Haitink. "I'm not ready, and anyway, I'd like to stay alive." Hotter heads prevailed. Haitink conducted, and the familiar scenario spun to its happy conclusion: he was invited back by the Concertgebouw, soon began...
CHORAL: Carlo Mario Giulini masterfully melds the Philharmonia Orchestra, chorus and four soloists into an incandescent Verdi Requiem (Angel). Intricate but eloquent, the Symphony of Psalms is performed by the CBC Symphony and the Festival Singers of Toronto, spurred on by Igor Stravinsky (Columbia...
...Angel). When Verdi wrote his Requiem, most critics complained that it was too passionate and sensuous, but one sympathizer de fended him. Italians have their own emo tional habits, he argued, and should be allowed to "talk to the dear Lord in the Italian language." Conductor Carlo Mario Giulini does so here, and it is unlikely that anyone could be more eloquent. He does not set the Dies Irae ablaze as Toscanini did, but his performance has a steady incandescence. Honors also go to London's Philharmonia Orchestra, its huge chorus, and the four soloists, Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Tenor...