Four of the greatest of the great Hungarian conductors from the postwar period could be fairly described as Bartók specialists: Ferenc Fricsay, Fritz Reiner, Georg Solti, and Antal Dorati. Fricsay was lucid and driven, Reiner was hard and strong, Solti was muscular and dramatic, but Antal Dorati was brilliant and rhythmic. While Fricsay, Reiner, and Solti were all compelling Bartók conductors, Dorati was the most immediately attractive and ultimately irresistible. Dorati, with his training as a conductor for the Ballet Russ ...
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Four of the greatest of the great Hungarian conductors from the postwar period could be fairly described as Bartók specialists: Ferenc Fricsay, Fritz Reiner, Georg Solti, and Antal Dorati. Fricsay was lucid and driven, Reiner was hard and strong, Solti was muscular and dramatic, but Antal Dorati was brilliant and rhythmic. While Fricsay, Reiner, and Solti were all compelling Bartók conductors, Dorati was the most immediately attractive and ultimately irresistible. Dorati, with his training as a conductor for the Ballet Russ, made not only Bartók's ballets dance, he made the Concerto for orchestra and the Music for string, percussion and celesta dance. Even the supremely lyrical Violin Concerto, with a passionate Yehudi Menuhin, is light on its feet and the opera Bluebeard's Castle, despite its dramatic power, moves with grace. The London Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the Minneapolis Symphony, and of course the Philharmonia Hungarica play as if they were to the czardas born. Mercury's sound was stupendous...
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