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personal integrity which his precocious interest in music had helped form and deepen." While in the Fleet Air Arm, Culshaw "wrote articles on music by the dozen and â quite rightly â they came back by the dozen." After many rejections, his first substantial article to be accepted for publication was a piece on
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technique to produce recordings of unprecedented realism and impact. He disliked live recordings from opera houses, and sought to put on disc specially made studio recordings that would bring the operas fully to life in the listener's mind. In addition to his Wagner recordings, he supervised a series
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was the finest. Greenfield says of it, "another recording which confounded the record world not just by its technical brilliance but by the way it sold in huge quantities." The recording was made in London in 1963, the year after the premiere of the
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as soon as he reached the minimum recruitment age in May 1942. He trained as a navigator, was commissioned as an officer, and promoted to lieutenant as a radar instructor. What spare time he had, he devoted to his passionate interest in music.
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the score calls for eighteen anvils to be hammered during two brief orchestral interludes â an instruction never followed in opera houses â Culshaw arranged for eighteen anvils to be hired and hammered. Similarly, where Wagner called for
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recording company in
November 1946, writing musical analyses and biographies of recording artists for Decca's classical albums. His first book, a short biography of Rachmaninov, was published in 1949 and was well received. The critic of
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theatrical performance. He sought to make recordings that compensated for the lack of the visual element by subtle production techniques, impossible in live recordings, that conjured up the action in the listener's head.
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conducting his own works, but EMI made it clear that it would put an end to Capitol's classical activity, which was regarded as superfluous. Lewis invited Culshaw to rejoin Decca, which he did in the autumn of 1955.
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Siegfried's voice made to sound like Gunther's, the voice of Fafner from his cave, not to mention the splendour of anvils and rainbow bridge harps in Rheingold, all transcend what is heard in the opera-house.
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whose superb musicianship and deep insight into the opera must have inspired the whole of the cast â in which there is not a weak member â and the orchestra to give of their best." In
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in one week than in sixty-five years of LSO concerts." Culshaw also screened more formal concerts, including Klemperer's 1970 Beethoven symphony cycle from the
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praised it for its discriminating judgment, conciseness and discretion. It was followed by two further books; a popular introduction to concertos (
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1834:, 13 November 1974, p. 28
1633:Culshaw (1967), pp. 23â26
1479:Culshaw (1967), pp. 46â47
824:London Symphony Orchestra
626:A Midsummer Night's Dream
564:In 1967, after the Decca
219:, conductor of the Decca
72:cycle, employing the new
3416:BBC television producers
3391:English record producers
2617:Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
2044:Reflections on Wagner's
1987:, 31 December 1950, p. 7
1965:, 6 October 1950, p. 625
1860:, 16 November 1970, p. 8
1847:, 9 December 1974, p. 10
1771:Osborne, pp. 440 and 468
1588:"Wagner â Das Rheingold"
525:Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
401:Culshaw hoped to record
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3271:record label executives
2533:Victoria de los Ăngeles
2178:Gramophone Hall of Fame
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1808:, 7 October 1969, p. 13
1727:, December 1996, p. 127
1470:, 23 January 1954, p. 3
1468:The Manchester Guardian
1111:The Manchester Guardian
958:University of Melbourne
863:The Yeomen of the Guard
754:; conductors including
718:Also sprach Zarathustra
370:Concertgebouw Orchestra
58:Der Ring des Nibelungen
2066:Culshaw, John (1981).
2040:Culshaw, John (1976).
2021:Culshaw, John (1967).
1996:Culshaw (1981), p. 101
1894:, January 1972, p. 101
1877:, February 2006, p. 93
1753:Culshaw (1981), p. 341
1744:, February 1977, p. 21
1698:Culshaw (1981), p. 177
1689:Culshaw (1981), p. 176
1680:, December 1999, p. 40
1651:Culshaw (1967), p. 190
1612:Culshaw (1967), p. 130
1500:Culshaw (1981), p. 125
1401:Culshaw (1981), p. 106
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1939:Culshaw (1976), p. xi
1930:, 28 April 1980, p. 2
1821:, 13 April 1973, p. 6
1674:"Gramophone Classics"
1642:Culshaw (1967), p. 94
1521:Culshaw (1967), p. 51
1488:Culshaw (1981) p. 121
1419:Culshaw (1967), p. 44
1410:Culshaw (1967), p. 45
1392:Culshaw (1967), p. 38
1383:Culshaw (1981), p. 87
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1365:Culshaw (1981), p. 66
1327:Culshaw (1981), p. 15
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1886:Greenfield, Edward,
1545:"The Art of Culshaw"
1543:Greenfield, Edward,
1343:, March 1945, p. 12.
1168:Reviewing the book,
1062:Notes and references
847:Un ballo in maschera
131:Culshaw was born in
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2334:Christopher Hogwood
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2301:John Eliot Gardiner
2294:Wilhelm FurtwÀngler
2106:Herbert von Karajan
1594:, March 1959, p. 85
1454:, March 1952, p. 11
1106:Hans Knappertsbusch
869:The Flying Dutchman
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673:Herbert von Karajan
651:Galina Vishnevskaya
593:Herbert von Karajan
521:Wolfgang Windgassen
437:Vienna Philharmonic
410:Hans Knappertsbusch
272:to record Wagner's
268:, were sent to the
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1912:Grove Music Online
1869:Quantrill, Peter,
1577:, 8 May 1965, p. 5
1551:, July 1980, p. 25
1040:A Century of Music
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1830:"Opera for BBC",
1266:Martland, Peter,
1025:A Place of Stone.
935:Leonard Bernstein
930:Der Rosenkavalier
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