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Chicago So/Solti: Mendelssohn/Brahms/Solti
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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InternationalIy renowned for his opera conducting as musical director of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, particuIarly his interpretation of Wagner's Ring cycle, Hungarian-born Sir Georg Solti was also a ceIebrated symphonic conductor. Taking up the post as director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1969, SoIti remembered his early performances with the CSO as "an absoIute joy and would remain with them for 22 years, leading them in their debut European tour of which the concert on this recording was the first fixture.
Recorded in 1971, the fiIm on this DVD is taken from the CSO's appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in the same year: their first ever concert outside America. In a first filmed edition of this performance, SoIti conducts the orchestra in Mendelssohn'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-Iike gestures, SoIti summons tremendous power, eIegance and clarity from the Orchestra, which incIudes such legendary instrumentalists as Dale CIevenger, AdoIph Bud' Herseth and Frank MiIler, and which led critic WilIiam Mann to write: "l am tempted to describe it as the United States most completeIy accompIished orchestra'. Of his relationship with the CSO, SoIti remarked: "lt's a marvellous thing to be musically happily married. I am, and l know. |
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