The title of this article should be put in quotation marks, because its author is, in fact, the great poet and essayist WH Auden: he used it (“A Genius and a Gentleman”) in his review of a book containing a selection of Giuseppe Verdi’s letters translated into English, published in 1972 in The New York Book Review. And his two nouns are now useful to describe with equal relevance Carlo Maria Giulini, who was also an extraordinary interpreter of his compatriot’s music, as partly confirmed by this Warner Classics album, which includes recordings by the Italian director made between 1952 and 1980, many of which have become absolute classics of discography.
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Complete remastered studio recordings on Columbia, HMV, Pathé and Electrola
Carlo Maria Giulini
Warner Classics 60 CDs
