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...boasted that the rigors of his early training (he had been a prodigy) entitled him to rest. He let little of his work be published, let as few people as possible see the scores from which he and his orchestra played in concert. At a rehearsal, he would indicate tempi, toss off a few notes of a cadenza, infuriate everyone by remarking "Et cetera, Messieurs," and knock off. During Paganini's life, the only way a fiddler could learn anything about his style was to listen in a concert hall. This was not much help: not for many years...
...insistence on broad, full tones, was no less impressed by his physical resource. Planting his feet widely, chin down, Conductor Barbirolli swayed his shoulders delicately through the lyrical passages, hunched forward to demand a pianissimo, twitched his kinetic torso and wagged his flying tails to call for quickened tempi. He guided the orchestra carefully through the tenebrous but imitative twilights of a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax, The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew. Like Barbirolli, to whom it is dedicated, the Bax piece had never been heard in the U. S. and on the whole proved an unhappy choice. Critic...
...mind, pleaded that he owed it to the public and posterity. The Maestro's "no" was unyielding until a friend suggested that he would be doing a real service to the composer he might interpret, that his records would help young conductors with their phrasing and their tempi. Result was the release last week of a Toscanini Wagner album,* which included the Preludes to the first and third acts of Lohengrin; Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung; the tender Siegfried Idyll, composed by Wagner as a Christmas serenade for his wife Cosima...
Naturally the serial had to have a catch-eye title-one that would help sell the paper-and Young Benito called it, with sonorous sacrilege: Claudia Particella, L'Amante del Cardinalel; Grande Romanzo dei Tempi del Cardinale Emanuel Madruzzo...
...orchestra played with a rhythmic incesiveness and excellent ensemble. Handel's Concerto imposes a difficult task even upon well disciplined strings, and that the Pierian succeeded in giving so substantial a proportion of the qualities of this rather casual music redounds to its credit. While some of the tempi might be open to credit, the interpretation was none the less eminently Handelian...