Haydn is generally seen as one of the main originators of the "Viennese sound", the inimitable style of playing which is still very much alive today and is particularly cultivated by the Vienna...
Leonard Bernstein conducts the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Boston Symphony Orchestra with soloists Kenneth Riegel live at Symphony Hall, Boston, July 26, 1976. Humphrey Burton directs.
The Romanian conductor Celibidache, Sergiu (1912-96) was one of the most adamant personalities in the musicworld. He rehearsed three times as much as other conductors and avoided making recordings...