Chapters for an Autobiography 2: 1932-1952
A series of three conversations in which Sir Georg Solti talks with his wife and friends.
Sir Georg takes up the story with the difficulties of launching his career in pre-war Budapest. He goes on to recall how his guardian angel guided him to Salzburg and Toseanini, on to Switzerland, where he spent the war years in uneasy isolation, and finally, in 1946, to the Munich Opera and his first conducting post. A highlight of the Munich years was his meeting with Richard Strauss.
Introduced by HUMPHREY BURTON
Producer PETER BUTLER
(Part 3 tomorrow at 6.35 pm. Solti Conducts Strauss tonight at 8.15)