The recipient of the Frankfurt music prize in 1999, Germany's Michael Gielen was also director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for a time.
"I consider Michael Gielen, alone of his generation, to be in many ways the true successor in temperament and musical perfectionism to Arturo Toscanini…. Gone is the almost peppy 'lift' to the notes one hears from such traditional conductors as Beecham and Doráti…. Those conductors viewed the Adagio as simply a prelude to the Allegro that follows
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