Word: toscaninis
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...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting Bach and Saint-Saens...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Arturo Toscanini returns...
...those who like crisp, musical perfection, Victor's Toscanini version is the last word. The NBC Symphony gives the music all the urgency it can bear, a sweeping flow and contrasting moments of intimacy hard to match. But the choral finale-one of the music's worst bugaboos -seems imperfectly recorded: the Robert Shaw Chorale clears the vocal hurdles all right, but the part singing is sometimes cloudy...
...Conductor Toscanini seemed to be as keen about his London visit as London was. In Milan last summer, he had heard the touring Philharmonia Orchestra for the first time, and had announced simply: "I must conduct...
They need not have worried. At the first rehearsal last week, Toscanini merely called for Brahms's First Symphony, led them through it without halting them once, murmuring bravos and molto benes. "Gentlemen," he told them at the end of a third rehearsal, "you could not have played better. I am very pleased." This week the winners of the reserved-seat lottery and the standing-room queue got to hear what had pleased the Maestro so. London's reaction: 13 years was a long time between Toscaninis, but it was worth the wait...