Bruno Walter- Bruno Walter Conducts Mozart & Haydn Remastered Stereo Recordings

In the days of the great conductors, many were appreciated, admired, even idolized. Bruno Walter was loved. He was as severe in rehearsal, as demanding of his musicians, as any conductor, but he projected an air of beneficence; it emerged so strongly in his personality that his rather tough-looking visage seemed to glow. All of that also came across - still comes across - in his performances, the more so as he aged. In his glory days with the New York Philharmonic, in the 1940s and 50s, he was considered the antithesis of Arturo Toscanini, but comparison of their recordings often yields more similarities than differences. They highly admired each other; Toscanini privately admitting that Walter may have found something more in Beethoven's Ninth ("perhaps he is right..."). As they aged, Toscanini sped up, adding ever-greater tension to his performances; Walter slowed down, radiating ever-greater love. This was particularly apparent in his Mozart. The German Romantic classics, Beet