Arturo Toscanini
Who are your favorite conductors, past and present?
Why?
Just to name a few:
Carlos Kleiber, Bernard Haitink, Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle, Sergiu Celibidache, Seiji Ozawa, Arturo Toscanini… and sure, Herbert Karajan.
Sad news indeed about Ozawa. I hope the treatment works for him.
Some of my favourite conductors from the past:
Karel Ančerl
Adrian Boult
André Cluytens
Edward Downes
Mark Ermler
Vernon Handley
Eugen Jochum
Rudolf Kempe
István Kertész
Carlos Kleiber
Kirill Kondrashin
Igor Markevitch
Pierre Monteux
Yevgeny Mravinsky
Fritz Reiner
Kurt Sanderling
Constantin Silvestri
Yevgeny Svetlanov
Václav Talich
Osmo Vänska
Gunther Wand
Some of my favourite conductors from the present:
Claudio Abbado
Marin Alsop
John Axelrod
Jiří Bělohlávek
Herbert Blomstedt
Riccardo Chailly
Robert Craft
Colin Davis
Christoph von Dohnányi
Charles Dutoit
Mark Elder
Vladimir Fedoseyev
Daniele Gati
Gianluigi Gelmetti
Bernard Haitink (live)
Neeme Järvi
Dmitri Kitaenko
David Lloyd-Jones
Charles Mackerras
Libor Pešek
Vassily Petrenko
Simon Rattle
Donald Runnicles
Michael Schønwandt
Mark Wigglesworth
Johannes Wildner
Antoni Wit
NO Karajan (can’t stand his over-sleek, technicolour, sanitised, egocentric style).
Arturo Toscanini
