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When Conductor Istvan Kertesz was taken ill prior to a concert by the London Symphony Orchestra last week, the management asked Composer Oliver Knussen if he would lead the prèmiere of his Symphony...
...Cologne Opera's Istvan Kertesz, 38, an unspectacular Hungarian, restricts himself to beating a steady rhythm with his right hand while flicking unobtrusive signals with his left-yet he radiates authority. His solid reputation as a traditionalist does not diminish the currents of conviction and warmth that he stirs into a composition. Armed with a wide repertory, he is equally effective in music as dissimilar as Mozart and Bartok...
...past and, to her sorrow, resurrects his other wives, still very much alive in his memory. Christa Ludwig is forceful as Judith, whose curiosity leads her to her doom, and Walter Berry (Christa's real-life husband) is mellowly desolate as Bluebeard. Sung in Hungarian, with Istvan Kertesz conducting the London Symphony Orchestra...
...spirited orchestral sketches are based on an opera celebrating the exploits of Háry János, the Magyar Baron Munchausen. The musical climax is Háry's singlehanded defeat of Napoleon, an event that will not be found in the history books. Hungarian Conductor Istvan Kertesz extracts bright colors from the London Symphony Orchestra, augmented by a cymbalum, a Hungarian dulcimer. The disk also offers the dazzling Dances of Galánta, named for the little town where Kodály as a boy listened to the gypsies play...
...week's end the Austrian Cabinet met in a special session, peremptorily expelled Teleki and Kertesz as personae non gratae. For the Austrian security police it was the second breakup of a Communist spy ring since last year, when they similarly put out of business an espionage network set up by the Czechoslovak legation...