Word: soltis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...English is not flawless," says a colleague, "but numbers he understands.") He now receives $15,000 for a cello recital, and his N.S.O. salary, though not publicly disclosed, runs upwards of $100,000 a year, which puts him into the top ranks, with the likes of Sir Georg Solti. He is generous with his time and talent. Once he flew from New York to Los Angeles and back in one day to spend a few hours with a sick friend. He donates proceeds of some concerts to charity, eagerly gives benefit performances...
...Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti conductor, London.) As one would expect, Solti's Bolero is a knockout. But the real interest here is the Debussy. The years have given Solti a welcome relaxation, and he is now getting around to the swirling softness of French musical impressionism. There are no mists in Solti's Debussy. The sky is clear blue over his La Mer, but how shimmering those eddies of string tone, how thundering the waves of brass. Afternoon of a Faun may just be the most sensual on records...
...first performance of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra draws raves, with special praise going to concertmaster Joseph Silverstein, first cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and conductor Georg Solti. The one undergraduate in HRO, who asked to remain anonymous, said afterwards, "It was a great honor to play on a college orchestra of this quality...
WAGNER: DIE MEISTERSINGER (London. 5 LPs). Sir Georg Solti and an eloquent cast-notably Britain's Norman Bailey as a wise and warm Sachs-present the finest recorded performance yet of this operatic masterpiece...
Wagner, Die Meistersinger: Baritone Norman Bailey, Tenor Rene Kollo, Soprano Hannelore Bode; Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Sir Georg Solti conducting (5 LPs, London). Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Tenor Placido Domingo, Soprano Catarina Ligendza; Chorus and Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin, Eugen Jochum conducting (5 LPs, Deutsche Grammophon). Here are two performances-one extraordinary, one merely excellent-of an operatic marvel that over the years has proved difficult to commit to disc. The Solti is the more spacious and relaxed of the two; because of London's typically distant engineering, it also has a more homogenized sound...