I don’t buy many CDs these days (I get more than I can handle for free) but I did recently purchase the box set pictured above — “Ernest Ansermet: Decca Recordings 1953-1967” — and thought I’d pass ...

The U.S. had first seen Ernest Ansermet (rhymes with ah sir may) and his black, square-cut beard 32 years ago, conducting while Nijinsky danced. It was Ansermet who gave the U.S. its first taste of ...

Hovering over the open-air podium with his arms outstretched, the white-bearded, white-jacketed conductor looked like a snowy egret about to flap off into the fading sunset. Instead, he flew into ...