Toscanini in Britain
Although the most renowned conductor of his era, Toscanini spent much of the first half of his career in a handful of opera houses in Italy and the United States: only in the 1920s did he start to conduct in the world's great capital cities. Among these centres, London became the most favoured; Toscanini's thirty concerts there between 1930 and 1952 familiarised audiences and critics with his work more thoroughly than elsewhere, apart from Italy and the United States. His activities in Britain are here recounted systematically for the first time, in particular how he came to conduct the BBC Sy
eBook, English, 2013
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013