Klemperer's 'Failures'

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Didn't Otto refuse to have anything to do with Elgar and refuse to conduct the Enigma Variations at the Festival of Britain?

Really? And I was only just beginning to like him!

[Mandryka]

Really? And I was only just beginning to like him!

Isn't there a general tendency for Austro-German conductors to 'not much care for' British composers? I don't think Karajan conducting anything by a British composer after the 50, barring his digital remake of The Planets.Even in the Philharmonia days, he didn't conduct much Anglophile repertoire.

[Sir Velo]

he didn't conduct much Anglophile repertoire.

I presume you mean anglophone. Debussy, Strauss and Haydn (to name but three) were all noted anglophiles in their day, all of whom featured prominetly in Karajan's repertoire.

[Alain Maréchal]

[QUOTE=vinteuil;246430]... indeed yes - and café liégeois is really Viennese anyway...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Café_liégeois[/QUOTE

I certainly hadn't known that (it's in Wikipedia so must be true), and to think ma ville de naissance is just east along the train line. It was probably a fact hidden from me in my childhood to prevent an identity crisis (in which case, as with Belgium, it failed).