Word: toscaninis
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Schubert, Symphony No. 9 in C; Debussy, Ibéria and La Mer; Berlioz, Queen Mab Scherzo; Respighi, Feste Romane; Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Strauss, Death and Transfiguration; Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique): The Philadelphia Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting (5 LPs, RCA). When Toscanini made these recordings in 1941-42 with the orchestra Leopold Stokowski had built, it was astonishing, then as now, to note how readily the musicians yielded their lush sound and fat phrasing to the brilliant, transparent, sharply contoured style that Toscanini favored. The resulting interpretations are still splendid to hear-spacious...
Pavarotti had some distinguished company. In the pit was Gianandrea Gavazzeni, 67, whose 50 years at Milan's La Scala include associations with Toscanini, Mascagni and Giordano. Gavazzeni led a performance that was full of controlled excitement; at the same time, he was consistently thoughtful of his singers. His support of Veteran Soprano Renata Scot to (Leonora), who sang the precarious D 'amor sull 'ali rosee in Act IV with extreme caution, was a memorable lesson in podium gallantry...
...artist and the hordes showed up at the department store, in spite of the rain. Standing with his wife, Wanda, daughter of the late conductor Arturo Toscanini, Horowitz explained to the crowd the reasons for his rare gesture: "You see, I don't play in New York again until January 1978, the 50th annivarsary of my New York debut. So I thought the public could this way see that I am in good health and good shape...
Abbado's conducting was a deft blend of energy, delicacy and a Toscanini-like instinct for the dramatic jugular. Even better, perhaps, was his mercurial handling two nights later of Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella). This work is chamber music for the opera house and easily the high point of the composer's comic style. Abbado has that style in his bones...
...What ABC got in return was almost 50% of each night's television audience and another solid first down in its march to surpass CBS and NBC. And deservedly: on the whole, viewers saw technical professionalism of the highest caliber. Roone Arledge, president of ABC Sports and the Toscanini of coordination circuits and interrupted feed-back systems, personally directed nearly every picture and a good many of the words that were seen and heard over the air. After a tense start, Anchor Man Jim McKay hit his stride and shifted into tireless overdrive...