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Search MusicWeb Here. I wonder how many more are to come after the first barrage. The classical newsgroups will be rocking with the usual debates about why one conductor was included and another waits disconsolately in the steppe. Why was this or that version chosen over another?

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I do not want to be left out. More of that anon. It is not far from Santander. He studied in Belgium and Germany after beginning his conservatoire studies at the age of thirteen in Madrid. His wartime prentice years in Germany were possible because of Spain's and Franco's special relationship with the Dritte Reich. Argenta promptly left Germany and returned to Spain when allied bombs fell too close for comfort.

In he became chief conductor of the Spanish National Orchestra. His interpretations of Spanish and French music were well regarded.

Ataulfo Argenta, who had been engaged to conduct the Belgium National Orchestra.

He recorded a great deal of Spanish music. All the usual suspects are there. Maurice Ohana's early Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter was also recorded. I am not sure what has been done in Spain but so far as the wider European and world market is concerned, Argenta has not received the sort of methodical adulation and 'reissuitis' accorded to the likes of Kubelik, Silvestri and Markevich let alone Stokowski and Walter.

This set is a major step forward for his reputation.