富特文格勒的指挥艺术

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• There has never been a lack of corroboration for the greatness of Furtwängler, but special testimony to it came to me one day in an unexpected way, long before this book was begun. It was my good fortune to know and spend time with Maria Callas, about whom I have written three books. She often amazed me with previously unsuspected areas of interest, but never more so than one day in August 1968. She was in Dallas recovering from a fall in which she had cracked several ribs. I picked her up one day for a doctor's appointment, and as I started the car, the radio came on. A symphony was being played. When I reached over to turn it off, she said, "No, leave it. The Beethoven Eighth is a favorite of mine." The was a surprise—a soprano, even a Callas, who loved and recognized Beethoven's Eighth!... (查看原文)

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