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French composer Maurice Ravel, centre, with French pianist and teacher Marguerite Long and Hungarian born conductor, pianist and composer Georg Szell in Prague. (Photo by Erich Auerbach

LIPATTI WITH MENGELBERG On February 16, 1942, Willem Mengelberg conducted the National Radio Orchestra in a second historical concert; the solo part of Liszt’s E flat major concerto was given by Dinu Lipatti. https://www.dinulipatti.org/on-february-16-1942-willem...…

Karajan with Gundula Janowitz/Agnes Baltsa/Peter Schreier Beethoven - Missa Solemnis / New Mastering + P° (Century's recording: Herbert Von Karajan 1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbzYR6N2U_4 Sopran : Gundula Janowitz Alt : Agnes Baltsa Tenor : Peter Schreier…

Carlo Maria Giulini working together with CSO music director Sir Georg Solti on planning a repertoire. In this episode, Carlo Maria Giulini becomes Principal Guest Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a glorious period…

English conductor Sir Colin Davis (r) and Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau (l) sit together in a recording studio in Dresden, captured in 1985. The two collaborated with the Staatskapelle Dresden at the Lukaskirche in…

Conductors' Competition Judges The judges in a conductors' competition at Lime Grove Studios, London, for the BBC's arts programme 'Monitor' on 5th February 1961. Left to right: German conductor Otto Klemperer (1885 - 1973),…

American violinist Bronislaw Gimpel (r) with conductor Sir Thomas Beecham and British composer Benjamin Britten (l) in a dressing room at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Serge Koussevitzky http://www.classical.net/music/guide/society/krs/koussbio.php In 1940, Koussevitzky established the Berkshire (now Tanglewood) Music Center as a school to train the most promising young composers, conductors, and instrumentalists. He himself taught the conducting classes there, and…

Toscanini/Bruno Walter Great conductors: Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini, Erich Kleiber, Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwangler Bayreuther Festspiele, 1931 (from the left) : Alexander von Spring , Furtwängler, Heinz Tietjen, Winifred Wagner and Arturo Toscanini

Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein kisses his former piano teacher Helen Grace Coates Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein kisses his former piano teacher Helen Grace Coates after the Founder’s Day Convocation honoring Coates and Bernstein at Pine Manor…

THREE YOUTHFUL SYMPHONIES OF GREAT MELODIC BEAUTY Vasily Kalinnikov - Symphony no. 1 - Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra (1894) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVakXOkE2G4&t=479s Sergei Rachmaninov - Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13 (1895)…

Leonard Bernstein is kissed by his parents after his first concert as conductor of the N.Y. Philharmonic Orchestra

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; Christa Ludwig; Alfredo Kraus; "COSÌ FAN TUTTE"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Elisabeth Schwarzkopf--Fiordiligi Christa Ludwig--Dorabella Giuseppe Taddei--Guglielmo Alfredo Kraus--Ferrando) Hanny Steffek--Despina Walter Berry--Don Alfonso Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus Karl Böhm--conductor…