Swarowsky was the greatest conductor who has yet recorded. Unfortunately, what made him so is something that cannot be taught. None of his students whose work I have heard is in his league. But very few conductors are. The only composer he recorded that he couldn't get emotionally close to was unfortunately one of the very greatest, Bruckner. He couldn't get into Bruckner's etherial calm which pervaded even the climaxes, and which was cosmic even in the pianissimos. But, on the opposite end, he was a greater conductor of Brahms than any other conductor was of anyone. His Brahms dwarfs anyone else's. And even his Bruckner was okay, because he captured everything in Bruckner but that etherial calm. He was such a great conductor that everything he did grows on a listener the more times the listener hears it. He always made his case to the very highest standard.
Swarowsky was the greatest conductor who has yet recorded. Unfortunately, what made him so is something that cannot be taught. None of his students whose work I have heard is in his league. But very few conductors are. The only composer he recorded that he couldn't get emotionally close to was unfortunately one of the very greatest, Bruckner. He couldn't get into Bruckner's etherial calm which pervaded even the climaxes, and which was cosmic even in the pianissimos. But, on the opposite end, he was a greater conductor of Brahms than any other conductor was of anyone. His Brahms dwarfs anyone else's. And even his Bruckner was okay, because he captured everything in Bruckner but that etherial calm. He was such a great conductor that everything he did grows on a listener the more times the listener hears it. He always made his case to the very highest standard.
Swarowsky was a true genius.
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