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unusual facts about Artur Bodanzky


Artur Bodanzky

In this practice, he is not far from the live contemporaneous recordings of such contemporaries as Albert Coates, Fritz Reiner, and Furtwängler.


René Maison

The best-known of these live performances are his marvelously funny, light-hearted Loge in Das Rheingold (conducted by Artur Bodanzky, 1937), his passionately dramatic Florestan in Bruno Walter's 1941 Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Fidelio, and as the tenor soloist in Arturo Toscanini's 1941 Buenos Aires performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.


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