The Life and Death of Classical Music (21 page)

1. Music on the move: A crowd in Queen’s Park, Manchester,
c.
1907, listening to a gigantic Auxeto gramophone playing Caruso and Scotti singing Solenne in Quest’ora from La Forza del Destino.

2. Making the record: Fred Gaisberg
(centre)
, the first professional producer, turning pages in a 1920s Berlin studio for violinist Fritz Kreisler
(left)
and his accompanist Franz Rupp.

3. Music at home: young Norwegians sample the latest releases,
c
. 1930.

4. The maestro: Arturo Toscanini in full cry at the 1937 Salzburg Festival.

5. Prophet before profit: Artur Schnabel, the pianist who said no, then maybe.

6. Her master’s voice: American contralto Marian Anderson glued to her own aural image, early 1940s.

7.
Breaking the record: The Million Dollar Trio of Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), Jascha Heifetz (violin) and Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Hollywood, 1949.

8. The matriarch: Professor Elsa Schiller, former concentration camp victim, reinvented Deutsche Grammophon in the yellow colour of her Nazi abjection.

9. The mega-maestro: Herbert von Karajan
(left)
, ‘like a cat who has collared the cream’, at lunch in Berlin, 1955, with critic Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt
(centre)
and Berlin Philharmonic manager Gerhart von Westermann.

10. The pianist who refused to play live: Glenn Gould with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, New York, March 1961.

11. The man who signed himself God: Goddard Lieberson, mastermind of stage musicals and president of Columbia Records.

12. Faust and Mephisto: Herbert von Karajan and Walter Legge
(centre)
at Abbey Road, March 1960, but which sold more of his soul?