Posts tagged as "conductor"

RAFAEL KUBELÍK: Chicago Symphony Sessionography

May 26, 2021

Thomas Fine explains the background to the Kubelík Mercury Masters Sometime immediately before 23 April 1951, two young men boarded a train in New York City and travelled to Chicago carrying a new and technologically ground-breaking microphone. Recording engineers C. Robert (‘Bob’) Fine, 29, and George Piros, 31, arrived at Orchestra Hall the morning of […]

The Legacy of Swiss conductor, PETER MAAG

January 6, 2021

In 1990 Peter Maag (1919–2001) returned to the Gran Teatro del Liceo in Lisbon for a run of Così fan tutte, an opera he had been directing for over 40 years. He raised a few eyebrows when he asked for an orchestra of only 26 players. ‘If there is more,’ he explained, ‘Mozart vanishes.’ Mozart, […]