Originally posted by Keraulophone
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Yes, I'm not sure what to think about the absence of that kind of demented precision from orchestras today. You get to hear wonderful results from people like Mravinsky, Szell, and Reiner, but you can't help pondering on the human cost. The footage of Mravinsky conducting does not reveal an especially elfin personality and he must have been a holy terror to play for. I don't know whether that was always his style, but his later conducting was so minimalist as to be barely there at all, yet producing results of such intensity that they will never be repeated.
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