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Re: Brahms, Schubert, the Budapest, and Szell
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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:10:59 -0800
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Joseph Previte ([log in to unmask]) wrote of Szell:

>His blistering Tchaikovsky 4th on London.  Story goes that on playback, the
>producer (I seem to think it was Legge) played back the tape at a low level
>spurning Szell to a fury.  He then whipped the orchestra to a frenzy and
>hence this recording of the 4th.

Right, except that it was John Culshaw (it's a Decca recording).

Deryk Barker
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