Ramon Khalona ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>For this particular orchestral musician, who is still playing superbly
>>at 81, the greatest orchestral conductor of them all (and he played under
>>just about everyone you can think of, with the exception of Toscanini) was
>>Victor de Sabata, who not only knew the scores inside out (pointing out
>>an error in the LPO's library copy of, IIRC, Berlioz's Carnaval Romain
>>overture that nobody knew about)
>
>You should ask Bob if he knew the LPO player who dubbed De Sabata as "a
>cross between Satan and Julius Caesar".

Doubtless he did - do you know who it was?

Interestingly Bob has said that there seemed to an Italian conductorial
style - certainly de Sabata, Giulini and Cantelli all apparently checked
the positioning of their feet as they mounted the podium.

deryk barker
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