Barbirolli

American  

[bahr-buh-roh-lee, -rol-ee] / ˌbɑr bəˈroʊ li, -ˈrɒl i /

noun

1. Sir John, 1899–1970, English conductor.

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Barbirolli British  

/ ˌbɑːbəˈrɒlɪ /

noun

1. Sir John . 1899–1970, English conductor of the Hallé Orchestra (1943–68)

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Example Sentences

When he was 11 and realized that he could buy classical records in his local, pop-oriented HMV, he picked out a copy of the Sinfonia of London’s “English Music for Strings,” conducted by John Barbirolli.

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It’s a sound and feeling that he heard in Barbirolli’s strings, and that he brings to the Sinfonia of London today: strong, immediate and indisputable.

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Boult’s readings have too stiff an upper lip for me, though their authority is unmistakable; others, from Serge Koussevitzky’s muscular account to the soaring grandeur of John Barbirolli’s, the radiant patience of André Previn’s to the touching honesty of the composer’s own, give more of a sense of the stakes involved.

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Fitfully in use since the 1950s, it was the title of the ensemble that played on John Barbirolli’s 1963 record of string music by Elgar and Vaughan Williams.

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And perhaps nobody since Barbirolli has been able to make strings sing like Wilson; Schreker’s “Intermezzo” here has a sheen to it that is intensely delicate one minute and impossibly sumptuous the next.

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