Hermann Abendroth

Some four decades after his death from a stroke, Hermann Abendroth is at last being rediscovered -- some would say "discovered" for the first time -- by the record-buying public. Abendroth was one of those conductors whose career was blighted by his decision to remain in Germany during the Hitler regime, and by European politics after the war. He had the misfortune to be based in East Germany, and never had the opportunity to become as well-known, either by concertizing or recording for major labels, as his contemporaries Wilhelm Furtwangler and Clemens Krauss, and his name an...