On a final batch of conductors from the series titled Great Conductors of the 20th Century including Eduard van Beinum, Rudolf Kempe, Rafael Kubelik, Sergiu Celibidache, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo ...

No conductor in modern history, not even the lavishly hyped ... he was serving as the second conductor at the Leningrad Philharmonic, under the great Yevgeny Mravinsky. Jansons stayed in Oslo ...

This time he casually blasted his baton-wielding colleagues. The trouble with modern conductors, said Markevitch, is that many of them have only a hazy idea of the instruments of the orchestra and ...

In the number and quality of great ... Conductor Hermann Scherchen, who led the orchestra through the most involved scores without missing a sixteenth note. But not all of London’s contemporary ...

He also explores the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra's relationship with some of today's greatest conductors ... and a piece by the contemporary Swiss composer Cécile Marti.

There have been, over time, some great orchestral partnerships ... Times critic Andrew Clark neatly sums up the role of the modern conductor. But conductors of the kind he describes are a ...