Bruno Walter: The Value of True Performance Traditions (10 Best Recordings Preview)

Bruno Walter, born in 1876, lived far enough into the LP era to leave an important legacy in good sound, as valuable for what it tells us about performance tradition as it does about the conductor's respect for the individual genius of the composers he most valued. Although considered hopelessly anachronistic by today's "historically informed" performance gurus, his Mozart demonstrates especially vividly the difference between arid, speculative academicism, and genuine musicianship.
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