Toscanini in Britain. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christopher Dyment.
• Other Names: Dyment, Christopher
• Contents: Frontcover; frontispiece; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword by Harvey Sachs; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Artuco Toscanini -- Chronicle of A Life, 1867-1957; Chapter 1 1900-30: Towards the Philharmonic Tour; Covent Garden -- the performance of 9 June 1900; 1 Turin's debonair Wagnerite: Toscanini in 1895; If at first you don't succeed ... ; 1920: Toscanini returns to La Scala; London doldrums; The New York Philharmonic's European tour -- the Maestro ascendant; 2 The New york Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra bound for Europe 1930; 3 Erich Kleiber greets Toscanini, Berlin, May 1930. Four London concerts: the critics enamoured4 Lionell Powell's poster for the Philharmonic's London concerts, 1930; 5 Sir George Henschel's letter to Toscanini dated 4 June 1930; Post-Philharmonic fallout: the Newman effect; A new orchestra broadcasts; Chapter 2 1931-35: The London Music Festival 1935; Getting him back -- at sixty-eight; 6 Wally, Wanda and Horowitz, London 1933; First concert: 'the world's master conductor' -- and the Enigma dissected; Three more concerts, several diversions; A press conference and some retrospectives; Chapter 3 Recording the 1935 Concerts; The barricade. Breaching the barricade7-10 HMV quartet: Fred Gaisberg, Rex Palmer, Lawrance Collingwood, David Bicknell; A fatal delay; Enter Newman; Losing him ... ; Chapter 4 1936-37: The London Music Festival 1937; ... getting him back again; 11 The Isolino San Giovanni, Lake Maggiore; Back at last -- to a 'better orchestra'; 12 Toscanini and Carla in London, c. 1937; 13-16 A quartet of BBC orchestra players: Paul Beard, Frederick Thurston, Archie Camden, Ernest Hall; The first concert -- greatness revealed and analysed; Three more concerts: the Maestro is happy; 17 Toscanini and Tommasini; To Oxford. 18 Sir Hugh Allen in 1938Distractions and expeditions; 19 Toscanini, Carla and Ernest Newman, June 1937; 20 Toscanini's appeal on behalf of Busoni's widow, London, June 1937; 21 Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Stefan Zweig, Salzburg 1934; In love with the Maestro; The two final concerts; Chapter 5 The First HMV Recording Session; Persuasion; 22 Toscanini in Riverdale, 1950s, with Sir Louis and Lady Sterling; 17 June 1937; Friends or rivals?; Chapter 6 Autumn 1937: two Choral concerts and More Records; Preparations and return; More recordings; Two concerts, several diversions. Chapter 7 1938: The London Music Festival 1938Changes and exchanges; Two concerts and a soloist -- Cardus and Newman agree; 23-24 Don Quixote soloists: Emanuel Feuermann, Bernard Shore; Travails and two requiems; Entertaining Maestro Toscanini; 25-27 Entertaining the Maestro: Sybil Cholmondeley, Irene Curzon, Pagani's; Glyndebourne plots; 28 Toscanini and Adolf Busch, Salzburg, 1936; 29 Adolf and Fritz Busch at Glynebourne; A recording session, a concert and a walkout; The sixth concert: HMV acts without delay; Chapter 8 1939: The Last London Music Festival; Getting back in peacetime.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 784.2092; Conductors (Music) -- Italy -- Biography; MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical; MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Choral; Conductors (Music); Travel; Great Britain; Italy; Electronic books; Biography; Travel -- Great Britain
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782040842; 1782040846; 9781782047247; 1782047247
• Related ISBNs: 9781843837893; 1843837897; 9781283836579; 1283836572
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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