Missouri Classical Music News

"We have lost one of the greatest musicians of our time," Esa-Pekka Salonen, music director of the Philharmonic, said Wednesday. "He had an almost uncanny ability to transform the sound of an orchestra, any orchestra, into a dark and intense glow, which became his trademark over the years."

Martin Bernheimer, music critic of the Los Angeles Times while Giulini was on the podium at the Philharmonic, called him "one of the major conductors of his period."

"Giulini was from the old school; he was calm, subtle, a thinker," Bernheimer said. "He wasn't interested in easy effects or splash. He brought a mellowness to the orchestra."