"he was not a showman". In 1950 Busch returned to Glyndebourne when the main festival resumed there after the war. Early in 1951 he revisited Germany, conducting in Cologne and Hamburg. He returned to Glyndebourne later in the year for an all-Mozart festival – Così fan tutte, Figaro and Don Giovanni, and the first professional production in England of Idomeneo. Howard Taubman of The New York Times praised Ebert's "unflaggingly imaginative and alive" staging and Busch's "loving hand, fusing the orchestra with the singers on the stage into a laughing, glowing entity". In the early post-war years the Glyndebourne company appeared regularly at the Edinburgh Festival, and in August 1951 Busch was in Edinburgh to conduct his first post-war Verdi opera for the company, La forza del destino. Critics praised his "percipient direction" and "inspired" conducting. On 14 September, five days after the last Edinburgh performance, Busch died suddenly of a heart attack in London at the age of 61. Reputation In the opinion of Grove, Busch was "the soundest type of German musician: not markedly original or spectacular, but thorough, strong-minded, decisive in intention and execution, with idealism and practical sense nicely balanced". The Times called him "a virile, faithful and extremely skilful interpreter of Mozart" and continued, "His beat like his bearing was one of quiet authority; his interpretations were fully alive without fuss or idiosyncrasy but devoted wholly to the projection of the music as he conceived the composer to have intended it". Recordings Busch's recordings include: 1934–1935: Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro, with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Roy Henderson, Norman Allin, et al. 1935: Mozart, Così fan tutte, with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Heddle Nash, John Brownlee, et al. 1936: Mozart, Don Giovanni, with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, John Brownlee, Salvatore Baccaloni, Ina Souez, Roy Henderson, et al. 1950: Mozart, Così fan tutte excerpts, with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Sena Jurinac, Richard Lewis, Erich Kunz, Mario Borriello et al. 1951: Mozart, Idomeneo excerpts, with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Sena Jurinac, Richard Lewis, Alexander Young 1951: Verdi, Un ballo in maschera, in German, Ein Maskenball, with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Cologne Radio Choir, Lorenz Fehenberger, Martha Mödl, Walburga Wegner, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and Anny Schlemm 1951: Mozart, Cosi fan tutte Live from Glyndebourne, Jurinac, Howland, Lewis, Bruscantini, Rothmuller, Quensel. 5 July 1951 Notes, references and sources Notes References Sources Originally published in 1949 as Aus