Much quieter and more prosaic than you’d expect.
Much quieter and more prosaic than you’d expect.
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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…