Conductor Fritz Busch was a significant booster for eighteenth century music at a time when it was represented only by a paltry few, badly overplayed works; he is largely credited for the revival of interest in Mozart's operas stemming from productions he mounted of them at the Glyndebourne Festivals of the 1930s. While held by experts in a class with the likes of Furtwängler and Toscanini, Busch's opportunities to record were far fewer in number and under far less auspicious circumstances and certain recordings have been ...
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Conductor Fritz Busch was a significant booster for eighteenth century music at a time when it was represented only by a paltry few, badly overplayed works; he is largely credited for the revival of interest in Mozart's operas stemming from productions he mounted of them at the Glyndebourne Festivals of the 1930s. While held by experts in a class with the likes of Furtwängler and Toscanini, Busch's opportunities to record were far fewer in number and under far less auspicious circumstances and certain recordings have been reissued repeatedly. Among those most frequently mined are recordings made of Busch by Danish Radio at the end of his life; though often cramped and tinny sounding, the Danish recordings reveal Busch in great form and, thankfully, in complete pieces. Guild Historical has entered the arena with its Fritz Busch Conducts Haydn & Mozart sourced from original 78 rpm releases of these recordings that appeared largely within Busch's own lifetime and featuring him in Haydn and Mozart,...
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