It took confidence to conduct like this, and perhaps what Thomson called a “Gallic clearheadedness,” but Monteux did not feel entitled to take the same liberties as colleagues like Wilhelm Furtwängler or Leopold Stokowski. Thomson once described another conductor’s interpretations as “authoritative but gentlemanly,” elaborating that “no matter how wrong
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