Toscanini

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani first brings up Toscanini through a few anecdotes: the conductor who flees fascism, records the Internationale and, in Brussels, stops the orchestra to reproach Caruso for the "little exhibition" of a note held too long in front of the Queen of Belgium12. He sees in this the mark of a rigorous conductor, little inclined to tolerate vocal self-indulgence. He also credits him with the finest orchestral version of the Internationale3. In the "Musicosophie" sessions, Toscanini mostly serves him as a point of comparison: a great "demonic" conductor, he sets him against Furtwängler, whom he considers extremely different from him45. He mentions him again to gauge Bülow's authority and in connection with La Forza del destino. Finally, he places him among the performers whom the baroque-revival musicians regard as "rust" to be stripped away, a claim he keeps at a distance67.

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