How conductors sounded (2): Toscanini talks about Otello (in Italian)

How conductors sounded (2): Toscanini talks about Otello (in Italian)

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norman lebrecht

November 30, 2013

Much quieter and more prosaic than you’d expect.

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  • cabbagejuice says:
    December 1, 2013 at 3:57 pm

    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…

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