Brian Rourke writes about Wolfgang Sawallisch:

>Somehow he's gotten the reputation as a dull conductor.  I haven't heard
>enough of his recordings to know why that is, but it mystifies me.

As the Sawallisch years drew on here in Munich, the more critically-minded
among attenders and among the orchestra players began longing for something
new.  It was therefore convenient to claim to have tired of what he had to
offer.  It wasn't a matter of denying that Sawallisch knew his stuff and
understood how to impose it on an orchestra.  Myself, I could never get
enough of him in live performance.  But other maestrtos there were/are,
and Munich didn't get any worse after he left.  Nor really better.

Denis Fodor