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...latest discovery came at the Prague Spring Festival of Music, which celebrated its 20th anniversary with the biggest and most impressive roster of conductors to appear at any of Europe's summer music festivals-among them George Szell, Charles Munch, Zubin Mehta and Georg Solti. Fronted with such competition, Celibi-dache's debut with the Czech Philharmonic was a stunning triumph. He realized, raved one critic, "qualities of the orchestra which until now we could only imagine." Under his baton, Hindemith's Metamorphosis "became a new discovery," Brahms's Fourth Symphony "a perfection of color...
...first U.S. orchestra to visit Russia in six years, the Clevelanders were feted and fawned upon. In Moscow, at the opening of the five-week tour, the audience summoned Conductor George Szell back for 20 curtain calls and four encores, rhythmically clapping and chanting "Glory! . . . bravo! . . thanks!" They relented only when Szell ordered his 107 musicians off the stage...
...adjourned to the youth cafés to sit in on jam sessions with the local hipsters. In Tbilisi, the orchestra was treated to a sumptuous banquet and serenaded by Georgian folk singers. The only sour note of the tour was sounded privately by the musicians, who rightfully questioned Szell's generally lightweight selection of American works, including two insipidities by Composers William Grant Still and Herbert Elwell, a native of Cleveland...
Last week, winding up the tour with three concerts in Leningrad, the Cleveland Orchestra had scored one of the biggest successes in the history of the cultural-exchange program. There were still five weeks of concertizing in Western Europe yet to come. But as Conductor Szell exclaimed: "What more could...
BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY Nos. 1 and 2 (Epic). Ending at the beginning, George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra have now recorded all nine Beethoven symphonies. Although he amply unfolds the later more dramatic works, Szell perfectly displays his strongest virtues- exquisite clarity, purity, precision and bright buoyancy- in these early symphonies, still primarily classical in design...