Bruno Walter A World Elsewhere

"...BRUNO WALTER: A WORLD ELSEWHERE, less a biography and more an exhaustive chronicling of his career, probably should be read only by scholars. The authors combed through 20,000 reviews and 7,000 letters (which are quoted too extensively and cataloged in 49 pages of notes) and list what feels like every program he ever conducted. They gather information and tell us about Walter, but it would take not only an excellent researcher but a better writer to make us truly feel him....One benefit, however, of Ryding and Pechefsky's exhaustive research is to see the long list of modern works that Walter conducted...."Ryding, Erik is the author of 'Bruno Walter A World Elsewhere', published 2006 under ISBN 9780803290082 and ISBN 080329008X.