Great Wagner conductors : a listener's companion /
This book, by the award-winning author of "Tristan und Isolde on Record", is the first in-depth study to bring the great historical Wagner conductors to life - through anecdote, their own views on Wagner.
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Canberra :
Parrot Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- The case of Richard Wagner
- Hans von Bülow: his master's ideal
- Hans Richter: his master's musician
- Anton Seidl: his master's apostle
- Hermann Levi: keeper of the grail
- Felix Mottl: "death-devoted heart"
- Karl Muck: knight of the grail
- Arthur Nikisch: Apollo in Valhalla
- Albert Coates: Bacchus in Valhalla
- Gustav Mahler: fanatical idealist
- Felix Weingartner: master of tempo
- Bruno Walter: singer in the pit
- Arturo Toscanini: maestro in control
- Artur Bodanzky: Mahler's disciple
- Wilhelm Furtwängler: Wagner's symphonist
- Fritz Busch: Wagnerian cast adrift
- Erich Kleiber: universal conductor
- Hans Knappertsbusch: heavy-weight of Bayreuth
- Clemens Krauss: fleet-footed Wagnerian
- Karl Böhm: light at the end
- Richard Strauss: "enjoying himself"
- Otto Klemperer: flashes from the dark
- Fritz Reiner: keeping it clean.