Great Wagner conductors
Subtitle: a listener's companion
By: Jonathan Brown
Publisher: Parrot Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 797
ISBN-13: 9780987155603
Subjects: Discography; Catalogs; Sound recordings; Performances; Conductors (Music); Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [782]-783), discographies, and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the stage. The case of Richard Wagner; title: Wagner's pupils. Hans von Bülow : his master's ideal ; Hans Richter : his master's musician ; Anton Seidl : his master's apostle; title: Early Bayreuth masters. Hermann Levi : keeper of the Grail ; Felix Mottl : "death-devoted heart" ; Karl Muck : knight of the Grail; title: A touch of Russia. Arthur Nikisch : Apollo in Valhalla ; Albert Coates : Bacchus in Valhalla; title: Vienna lights. Gustav Mahler : fanatical idealist ; Felix Weingartner : master of tempo ; Bruno Walter : singer in the pit; title: America felix. Arturo Toscanini : maestro in command ; Artur Bodanzky : Mahler's disciple; title: The German heartland. Wilhelm Furtwängler : Wagner's symphonist ; Fritz Busch : Wagnerian cast adrift ; Erich Kleiber : universal conductor; title: Late pickings. Hans Knappertsbusch : heavy-weight of Bayreuth ; Clemens Krauss : fleet-footed Wagnerian ; Karl Böhm : Light at the end; title: Outsiders. Richard Strauss : "enjoying himself" ; Otto Klemperer : flashes from the dark ; Fritz Reiner : keeping it clean; title: Discographies. Artur Bodanzky ; Karl Böhm ; Hans von Bülow ; Fritz Busch ; Albert Coates ; Wilhelm Furtwangler ; Erich Kleiber ; Otto Klemperer ; Hans Knappertsbusch ; Clemens Krauss ; Hermann Levi ; Gustav Mahler ; Felix Mottl ; Karl Muck ; Arthur Nikisch ; Fritz Reiner ; Hans Richter ; Anton Seidl ; Richard Strauss ; Arturo Toscanini ; Richard Wagner ; Bruno Walter ; Felix Weingartner.