" In addition, Moore collaborated with the conductor Sir Georg Solti to create a 1991 television series, Orchestra !, which was designed to introduce audiences to the symphony orchestra.

His pioneering recording ( begun in 1958 ) of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Georg Solti was a huge artistic and commercial success ( to the chagrin of other companies ).

The Solti Ring was voted best recording of all time by readers of the influential magazine Gramophone and Luciano Pavarotti remained an exclusive Decca artist throughout his recording career.

Mehta was subsequently named to replace Solti.

Subsequent conductors at the Last Night have generally continued this tradition, although one exception was in 1997 when Sir Andrew Davis more seriously addressed the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, Mother Teresa, and Sir Georg Solti in his 1997 Last Night speech.

His cousin was the conductor Sir Georg Solti.

This was brought to light by Sir Georg Solti as he was preparing to record the Concerto for Orchestra and the Dance Suite.

Kertész was part of a rich musical tradition that produced fellow Hungarian conductors, János Ferencsik, Eugene Ormandy, George Szell, János Fürst, and Sir Georg Solti.

In 1961, he was named assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic ; however, the orchestra's music director designate, Georg Solti, was not consulted on the appointment, and Solti subsequently resigned in protest ; soon after, Mehta himself was named Music Director of the orchestra, and held the post from 1962 to 1978.

In 1994, she was auditioned by the conductor Sir Georg Solti for a new production of La traviata at the Royal Opera House.

Many performances were given under the baton of Georg Solti and it was with him that she made her first recording of The Marriage of Figaro.

The winner-soprano Shuna Scott Sendall-performed with Dame Kiri and José Carreras at BBC Proms In The Park in Hyde Park, London on Saturday 11 September 2010 and was given the opportunity to attend a three-week residential course at the Solti Te Kanawa Accademia in Italy.

It was produced by Christopher Raeburn and the London Philharmonic Orchestra was conducted by Georg Solti.

Conductor Sir Georg Solti said of Fleming, " In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing ; the other was Renata Tebaldi.

She was also chosen by Solti to be the first recipient of the Solti Prize, to be given to an outstanding younger singer.

13, which was especially well received and was performed by conductors such as Charles Munch, Karl Böhm, Georg Solti, Eugene Ormandy, and Leonard Bernstein.

However, Solti abruptly resigned the position in 1961 without officially taking the post after learning that the Philharmonic board of directors failed to consult him before naming then 26 year-old Zubin Mehta to be assistant conductor of the orchestra.

His tenure in the orchestra spanned the time of 6 different CSO music directors-Artur Rodziński ( 1947-1948 ), Rafael Kubelik ( 1950-1953 ), Fritz Reiner ( 1953-1962 ), Jean Martinon ( 1963-1968 ), Sir Georg Solti ( 1969-1991 ), and Daniel Barenboim ( 1991-2006 ).

* Sir Georg Solti ( 1961 – 1962 )

* Mozart: Don Giovanni 1962 / Solti, Gencer, Jurinac, Freni

In addition, Sir Georg Solti and producer John Culshaw received the first NARAS Trustees ’ Award in 1967 for their " efforts, ingenuity, and artistic contributions " in connection with the first complete recording of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen with the Vienna Philharmonic.

** Richard Mohr ( producer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ), Judith Blegen, Montserrat Caballe, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Ruggero Raimondi & the London Philharmonic for Puccini: La Bohème

** Georg Solti ( conductor ), Regine Crespin, Hans Hotter, James King, Christa Ludwig, Birgit Nilsson, & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Wagner: Die Walkure

** Christopher Raeburn ( producer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ), Thomas Allen, Kiri Te Kanawa, Kurt Moll, Lucia Popp, Samuel Ramey, Frederica von Stade & the London Philharmonic for Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Iván Fischer, Georg Solti.

** Christopher Raeburn, Stephen Trainor, Morten Winding ( producers ), Georg Solti ( conductor ), Hildegard Behrens, José van Dam, Plácido Domingo, Sumi Jo, Reinhild Runkel, Julia Varady & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten

** James Lock, John Pellowe, Jonathan Stokes & Philip Siney ( engineers ), Georg Solti ( conductor ) & the Vienna Philharmonic for R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten

* 1975-Bizet-Carmen-as Micaëlla in a studio recording with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti

* 1981-Mozart-Le nozze di Figaro-as Contessa Almaviva in a studio recording with London Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti

* 1991-Richard Strauss-4 Letzte Lieder and other songs-with Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic

* 1998-Bizet-Carmen-Highlights-Troyanos, Domingo, Te Kanawa, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti

** Christopher Raeburn, Stephen Trainor, Morten Winding ( producers ), Georg Solti ( conductor ), Hildegard Behrens, José van Dam, Plácido Domingo, Sumi Jo, Reinhild Runkel, Julia Varady & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for R. Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten

** Christopher Raeburn ( producer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ), Thomas Allen, Kiri Te Kanawa, Kurt Moll, Lucia Popp, Samuel Ramey, Frederica von Stade & the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro

** Richard Mohr ( producer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ), Judith Blegen, Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Ruggero Raimondi & the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Puccini: La bohème

** Georg Solti ( conductor ), Regine Crespin, Hans Hotter, James King, Christa Ludwig, Birgit Nilsson, & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Wagner: Die Walküre

* Wagner, Lohengrin, with Georg Solti, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, as the Heerrufer ( Decca )

* Wagner, Götterdämmerung, with Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on the Decca label

** James Lock, John Pellowe, Jonathan Stokes & Philip Siney ( engineers ), Georg Solti ( conductor ) & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for R. Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten

61-with Georg Solti and the London Philharmonic Orchestra

She even made some stereophonic recordings, including excerpts from Wagner's operas with Hans Knappertsbusch and Sir Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Georg Solti, who had arranged Strauss's 85th birthday celebration, also directed an orchestra during Strauss's burial.

In 1960, the orchestra, led again by Chandler, signed Georg Solti to a three-year contract to be music director after he had guest conducted the orchestra in winter concerts downtown, at the Hollywood Bowl, and in other Southern California locations including CAMA concerts in Santa Barbara.

Toscanini resigned in protest, artists of Jewish descent like Reinhardt and Georg Solti had to emigrate, and the Jedermann, last performed by Attila Hörbiger, had to be dropped.

She had met Solti in September 1964 when she interviewed him, fortuitously, as a last minute alternative to replace a missing news item.

The company has had six music directors since its inception: Karl Rankl, Rafael Kubelík, Georg Solti, Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink and Antonio Pappano.

Nevertheless, Solti and Webster had to take into account the complete opposition on the part of such stars as Callas to opera in translation.

One of Webster's last important decisions had been to recommend to the board that Colin Davis should be invited to take over as musical director when Solti left in 1971.

The last operatic music to be heard in the old house had been the finale of Falstaff, conducted by Solti with the singers led by Bryn Terfel, in a joint opera and ballet farewell gala in July 1997.

As explained by the Telegraph in London on Sept. 18, 2009, “ The orchestra ’ s rise to fame began with the great Fritz Reiner in the Fifties, but it was during the 22-year reign of the fierce Hungarian Georg Solti that the orchestra became the brawny yet subtle precision instrument that it is today, famed especially for its noble and stupendously powerful brass sound .” A Smithsonian profile of Herseth, published Sept. 1, 1994, offered this description: “ The Chicago has long been recognized as one of the world ’ s great orchestras, and Adolph Sylvester Herseth has had a major role in the evolution of its distinctive sound .” As described in the Chicago Sun-Times, July 22, 2001, “ For decades Herseth's rich, golden tone and powerful yet expressive playing were a cornerstone of the fabled ‘ Chicago Sound .’” That brass sound drew worldwide attention to the CSO, and propelled the great American orchestra ’ s reputation around the globe.