Word: toscaninis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conductor Toscanini exercises such rigid control over RCA Victor releases, how did it happen that his recording of Beethoven's Eroica, which is marred at the outset by two highly audible coughs, came to be issued...
...Because Toscanini considered it a satisfactory recording. It was made during a broadcast and the coughs were audience-contributed...
...little debunking of the Toscanini legend would be a healthy thing for this country...
...composer Toscanini can't do right-Mozart...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. (The Boston Symphony Orchestra with Robert Shaw chorus, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 16 sides). Anyone who heard Toscanini's magnificent broadcast will want to avoid this album: the accents are muffled, the tempos sluggish and the heartbeat missing. Recording: poor...