In 1963 there occurred the tragically early death - at the age 0f 49 - of the outstanding conductor, Ferenc Fricsay. Had he lived longer, the general consensus is that he would have featured alongside Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein as one of the greatest practitioners of the conductor's art in the second half of the 20th century. Indeed, a Munich critic went further, remarking that Fricsay's talent and style had represented nothing less...