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Guido Cantelli (Philharmonia Orchestra; Angel). Five months before he was killed in a plane crash in 1956, young Conductor Cantelli, No. 1 protege of the great Toscanini, spent several days recording in London. This posthumous disk presents Cantelli's remarkably fresh reading of a couple of concert cliches: Debussy's L'Aprés-Midi d'un Faune, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite #2. Strained through Cantelli's clear musical consciousness, the lush music flows out simply, movingly, and with none of the sudsy emotional film that so often clouds...
...still looks much like the round-eyed boy wonder who packed up his flute at twelve and left Mason City for New York and a career as a versatile but erratic musician. At 19 he was good enough to play with John Philip Sousa, at 22 was playing under Toscanini with the New York Philharmonic. In 1929 he defected to radio, for the next two decades whipped up foamy musical souffles and sprightly chatter for such shows as Maxwell House Coffee Time, The Big Show. Along the way, he tried his hand at anything with a tune, crashed...
SYMPHONY No. 9 (Beethoven): Arturo Toscanini conducting NBC Symphony Orchestra...
...piece orchestra and Carnegie Hall to prove that he was not. Though the concert went well, for years he was unable to get a regular conducting job. In 1947 he was invited to lead the Budapest State Opera and Philharmonic. Some musicians thought he was in a class with Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Furtwangler, but his illness had left him eccentric. The first time he conducted at the opera house he wore high leather boots, took them off in the middle of the performance. During rehearsal, he became so enraged at a violinist that he grabbed...
...been dangled in Bernstein's face before, and he has turned them all down, except for a 1945-48 stint as full-time conductor of the now defunct New York City Symphony. Said he once: "I don't want to spend the rest of my life, as Toscanini did, studying and restudying, say, 50 pieces of music...