Conductors' Comer
Donald Macleod presents a week celebrating the contrasting careers of five 20th-century conductors.
Georg Solti. The death last year of Georg Solti was universally mourned. His energy and dynamism were transferred to players and audiences alike. Solti's life story is almost an opera in itself, from his early days as a pianist in Budapest, to his postwar leadership of the opera houses in Munich and at Covent Garden.
Including excerpts from Solti's recordings of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, Bizet's Carmen, Wagner's
Gotterdammerung and Verdi's Falstaff.