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In Reply to: Any love for Leinsdorf? posted by TGR on June 26, 2015 at 12:56:05:
I know what you mean about his cavalier attitude towards Dvorak's New World Symphony - in the 60's, I saw a TV broadcast of Leinsdorf conducting this work (Tanglewood perhaps? - I don't remember), and on the last chord, where Dvorak asks for the entire orchestra to die down to a p/pp ending, Leinsdorf kept the dynamic level up at fortissimo! The Composer's Advocate? LOL!OTOH, I've heard some good Leinsdorf recordings too. I'm among the admirers of his Sheffield/LAPO recordings of Wagner, Stravinsky, Debussy, and Prokofiev, although I agree that his BSO Wagner and Prokofiev performances were also very fine. I thought his BSO Haydn symphonies were good too.
As I've posted over on the Music forum a couple of times, Phyllis Curtin regaled us (in one of her master classes) with horror stories of recording with Leinsdorf and the BSO early in the Dynagroove era - where the engineers forced her to stand and record 60 feet away from the conductor, thus destroying the normal communication she would have had with him in a normal (much closer) concert environment.
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Follow Ups
- Leinsdorf had his moments - Chris from Lafayette 17:07:44 06/26/15 (9)
- RE: Leinsdorf had his moments - goldenthal 21:32:28 06/28/15 (1)
- Yes - Great reminder! - I treasure that recording! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 00:03:41 06/29/15 (0)
- Didn't know you even owned a turntable, Chris [nt] - Amphissa 09:39:10 06/27/15 (1)
- But of course. . . in the distant past whence my rheumy impressions endure [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 17:05:19 06/27/15 (0)
- Leinsdorf on Sheffield - hifitommy 09:06:52 06/27/15 (3)
- Best Sheffiled of all: Leinsdorf's Debussy and Stravinsky - jdaniel@jps.net 08:31:23 06/28/15 (0)
- RE: Leinsdorf on Sheffield - theophile 07:15:51 06/28/15 (1)
- family - hifitommy 08:01:44 06/28/15 (0)
- Jeez, unartistic dolts for engineers. nt - Rick W 21:23:49 06/26/15 (0)
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