The Music Plays On — Toscanini Conducts Wagner

Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini was one of the greatest Wagner conductors of all time. Facts like this often get obscured today, especially here in the U.S., because of the classical music industry’s rather insipid penchant to pigeonhole artists based on their nationality. The French play Debussy. The English conduct Elgar. The Russians perform Tchaikovsky. While I think that in today’s world this is complete rubbish, these…