Much quieter and more prosaic than you’d expect.
How conductors sounded (2): Toscanini talks about Otello (in Italian)
- By Norman Lebrecht
- on November 30, 2013
Much quieter and more prosaic than you’d expect.
Session expired
Please log in again. The login page will open in a new window. After logging in you can close it and return to this page.
He also sounded like a preternatural leviathan in the famous “contrabassi, madonna santissima” interruption of a Traviata rehearsal (start 3:55):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY7Lk83O4Pc
Somehow the image of Charlie Chaplin comes to mind…