| It's warmer than Boult, not as passionate as Barbirolli, and far more assured in its textural balance than Previn. |
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| Eric did the funny bits and Previn, vamped in a de rigueur monkey suit and swishing a baton, looked on aghast. |
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| The recording is quite superb however and is definitely preferable to Bakels on Naxos or the ageing Boult and Previn who remain however, very valid accounts on all planes. |
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| By the Previn era the LSO was being described as the finest of the London orchestras. |
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| Previn would talk informally direct to camera and then turn and conduct the LSO, whose members were dressed in casual sweaters or shirts rather than formal evening clothes. |
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| Others, looking back further to Pierre Monteux's reign, think it our most French orchestra, a quality nurtured by Previn and latterly Claudio Abbado. |
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