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Chicago So/Solti: Mendelssohn/Brahms/Solti
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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Internationally renowned for his opera conducting as musicaI director of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, particularly his interpretation of Wagner's Ring cycIe, Hungarian-born Sir Georg Solti was also a celebrated symphonic conductor. Taking up the post as director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1969, Solti remembered his earIy performances with the CSO as "an absolute joy and would remain with them for 22 years, Ieading them in their debut European tour of which the concert on this recording was the first fixture.
Recorded in 1971, the film on this DVD is taken from the CSO's appearance at the Edinburgh FestivaI in the same year: their first ever concert outside America. In a first filmed edition of this performance, SoIti conducts the orchestra in MendeIssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream Overture and Brahms's Symphony No.1. His subsequent performances of the Brahms have been praised for their "dignity, energy and spIendour.
With his sometimes Samurai-like gestures, SoIti summons tremendous power, eIegance and clarity from the Orchestra, which incIudes such legendary instrumentalists as Dale Clevenger, Adolph Bud' Herseth and Frank MiIler, and which led critic William Mann to write: "I am tempted to describe it as the United States most compIetely accompIished orchestra'. Of his reIationship with the CSO, Solti remarked: "It's a marvelIous thing to be musicaIIy happiIy married. l am, and l know. |
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