Peter Horvath wrote:

>The question here, I think, is doing the job and earning the respect of
>the musicians.  In no way, shape or form is Welser-Most on a par with
>Bernstein.  The musicians of the LPO called him "frankly worst than most".
>I think that speaks for itself.

I think it was the London critics who called him that rather than the
players.  I always felt (I may be wrong, of course) was that W-M's main
"fault" was that he wasn't Klaus Tennstedt who had had to retire through
poor health and who was idolised in many quarters.  Anyone who followed him
under the same circumstances was bound to have an uphill task.  The little
I heard of him was favourable.

As for him being on a par with Bernstein, that remains to be seen.

Tony Duggan
Staffordshire,
United Kingdom.