Your Ten Favorite Conductors

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George

August 07, 2012, 04:45:58 AM Last Edit: August 07, 2012, 04:48:57 AM by George
Regardless of how much or how little they may have recorded, what are your 10 favorite conductors?
"I can't live without music, because music is life." - Yvonne Lefébure

mahler10th

#1
August 07, 2012, 04:54:21 AM Last Edit: August 07, 2012, 04:57:25 AM by Scots John
1.  Carlos Kleiber
2.  Karajan
3. Solti
4. Andris Nelsons
5. Machail Jurowski
6. Bychkov
7. Bernstein
8. Fritz Reiner
9. Barenboim
10. Abbado

Number 1 is in order but the rest aren't...any one of them anywhere. These are conductors who have produced, for me, something quite outstanding in a performance of something, somewhere, that I have heard.

jwinter

#2
August 07, 2012, 04:58:49 AM
Ah, but this makes it easier, George -- it's no fun if you don't twist the knife and leave them dangling a bit  ;D

My Top 10:

Bernstein
Bohm
Chailly
Furtwangler
Giulini
Haitink
Karajan
Kubelik
Scherchen
Szell

One thing leaps out at me -- out of my list, only Chailly and Haitink are still with us.  Curious to see what percentage of GMG's favorite conductors are active vs historical... 
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

The Raven

#3
August 07, 2012, 05:00:22 AM
10 is hard too. Maybe 10 alive, 10 dead, 10 period would be more meaningful  ::) . Cheers!

Claudio Abbado
Karl Bohm
Colin Davis
John Eliot Gardiner
Carlo Maria Giulini
Bernard Haitink
Eugen Jochum
Carlos Kleiber
Otto Klemperer
Neville Marriner




jwinter

#4
August 07, 2012, 05:03:22 AM
 Quote from: Scots John on Today at 08:54:21 AM >1.  Carlos Kleiber
2.  Karajan
3. Solti
4. Andris Nelsons
5. Machail Jurowski
6. Bychkov
7. Bernstein
8. Fritz Reiner
9. Barenboim
10. Abbado

Number 1 is in order but the rest aren't...any one of them anywhere. These are conductors who have produced, for me, something quite outstanding in a performance of something, somewhere, that I have heard.
 
Wow, I actually hadn't heard of Andris Nelsons, had to look it up.  See, there can be some value in these silly polls... :)
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

George

#5
August 07, 2012, 05:10:38 AM
Szell
Walter
Barbirolli
Karajan
Kondrashin
Rohdestvensky
Celibidache
Wand
Fricsay
Mravinsky
"I can't live without music, because music is life." - Yvonne Lefébure

springrite

#6
August 07, 2012, 05:22:14 AM
Furtwangler
Giulini
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Kleiber
Kempe
Kubelik
Reiner
Haitink
Bernstein
Abbado
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

trung224

#7
August 07, 2012, 05:30:35 AM Last Edit: August 07, 2012, 05:35:28 AM by trung224
Furtwaengler
Karajan
Bernstein
Klemperer
Kleiber
Tennstedt
Scherchen
Barbirolli
Szell
Celibidache
and many others in particular repertoire

Brahmsian

#8
August 07, 2012, 05:31:48 AM Last Edit: August 07, 2012, 05:35:48 AM by ChamberNut
In alphabetical order:

Abbado
Barshai
Gergiev
Harnoncourt
Jochum
Karajan
Kempe
Mickelthwate (local bias  :D)
Petrenko
Solti

A few honourable mentions:

Kertesz
Tennstedt
Rattle

Many, many others I like, too many to mention.


mjwal

#9
August 07, 2012, 05:32:46 AM Last Edit: August 07, 2012, 05:39:07 AM by mjwal
Mengelberg. Furtwängler. Busch. Scherchen. Rosbaud.
Beecham. Mitropoulos. Barbirolli. Munch. Mravinsky.

This is about my today's favourites, right, not about greatest of all time. The two last are also those I find most compulsive to watch while conducting.
Toscanini would have been in my list 20 years plus ago, Erich Kleiber, Klemperer, Reiner and Szell too.
The Violin's Obstinacy

It needs to return to this one note,
not a tune and not a key
but the sound of self it must depart from,
a journey lengthily to go
in a vein it knows will cripple it.
...
Peter Porter

trung224

#10
August 07, 2012, 05:44:21 AM
 My top choice devided between two category : overly emotional conductor  (Furtwangler, Barbirolli, Bernstein, Tennstedt) and the conductors has unique approach to all kind of music they conduct (Karajan, Klemperer, Scherchen, Szell, Celibidache and Kleiber (like Toscanini but much more warmer)

George

#11
August 07, 2012, 05:47:17 AM
Now if someone would like to compile the results, that could be fun!
"I can't live without music, because music is life." - Yvonne Lefébure

springrite

#12
August 07, 2012, 05:53:20 AM
Quote from: George on August 07, 2012, 05:47:17 AM
Now if someone would like to compile the results, that could be fun!

Gold, Silver and Bronze, with a major refereeing controversy and a performance enhancement drug controversy to boot! Ha!
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Gurn Blanston

#13
August 07, 2012, 06:06:51 AM
Quote from: mjwal on August 07, 2012, 05:32:46 AM
Mengelberg. Furtwängler. Busch. Scherchen. Rosbaud.
Beecham. Mitropoulos. Barbirolli. Munch. Mravinsky.

This is about my today's favourites, right, not about greatest of all time. The two last are also those I find most compulsive to watch while conducting.
Toscanini would have been in my list 20 years plus ago, Erich Kleiber, Klemperer, Reiner and Szell too.

Oh boy, all dead guys. They can scarcely be flattered. :)

I don't have 10 favorite conductors, I don't subscribe to that particular cult. However, there have been a few that I consider to be reliable for my taste;

Harnoncourt
Hogwood
Brüggen
Jacobs
Savall
Gardiner
Herreweghe
Minkowski
Kuijken
Mackerras

Sadly, the last is no longer alive, but it was so recent that I still include him.

8)
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Todd

#14
August 07, 2012, 06:26:12 AM
Giulini
Kubelik
C Kleiber
Schuricht
Savall
Temirkanov
Walter
Bernstein
Boulez
Abbado
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Leon

#15
August 07, 2012, 06:32:58 AM
Quote from: Gurnatron5500 on August 07, 2012, 06:06:51 AM
Oh boy, all dead guys. They can scarcely be flattered. :)

I don't have 10 favorite conductors, I don't subscribe to that particular cult. However, there have been a few that I consider to be reliable for my taste;

Harnoncourt
Hogwood
Brüggen
Jacobs
Savall
Gardiner
Herreweghe
Minkowski
Kuijken
Mackerras

Sadly, the last is no longer alive, but it was so recent that I still include him.

8)


Close to my own list, however a couple of substitutions are made mainly because of 20th works:

Harnoncourt
Hogwood
Boulez
Jacobs
Pinnock
Gardiner
Herreweghe
Minkowski
Kuijken
Craft

:)

The Raven

#16
August 07, 2012, 09:15:17 AM
After 11 votes...

Abbado      5
Bernstein      5
Karajan      5
Kleiber C.      5
Furtwangler   4
Giulini      4
Barbirolli      3
Gardiner      3
Haitink      3
Harnoncourt   3
Kubelik      3
Scherchen   3
Szell      3
Bohm      2
Boulez      2
Celibidache   2
Herreweghe   2
Hogwood   2
Jacobs      2
Jochum      2
Kempe      2
Klemperer   2
Kuijken      2
Minkowski   2
Mravinsky      2
Reiner      2
Savall      2
Solti      2
Walter      2
Barenboim   1
Barshai      1
Beecham      1
Bruggen      1
Busch      1
Bychkov      1
Chailly      1
Craft      1
Davis      1
Fricsay      1
Gergiev      1
Jurowski      1
Kondrashin   1
Mackerras   1
Marriner      1
Mengelberg   1
Mickelthwate   1
Mitropoulos   1
Munch      1
Nelsons      1
Petrenko      1
Pinnock      1
Rosbaud      1
Rozhdestvensky   1
Salonen      1
Schuricht      1
Temirkanov   1
Tennstedt      1
Wand      1

Sergeant Rock

#17
August 07, 2012, 09:34:21 AM Last Edit: April 14, 2015, 05:44:44 AM by Sergeant Rock
Szell

Celibidache

Sinopoli

Barenboim

Bernstein

Klemperer

Norrington

Rozhdestvensky

Maazel

The Hobbit
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

mahler10th

#18
August 07, 2012, 10:07:01 AM
Quote from: jwinter on August 07, 2012, 05:03:22 AM

Quote1.  Carlos Kleiber
2.  Karajan
3. Solti
4. Andris Nelsons
5. Machail Jurowski
6. Bychkov
7. Bernstein
8. Fritz Reiner
9. Barenboim
10. Abbado

Wow, I actually hadn't heard of Andris Nelsons, had to look it up.  See, there can be some value in these silly polls... :)

His Ein Heldenleben on the BPO Digital Concert Hall in February was utterly compelling.  It is still there, free, but one has to create an account (free) to see it...I might go and watch it again...

http://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/2513/nelsons-braunstein-brahms-strauss

Nelsons in one of his darker moments...   :o

Lisztianwagner

#19
August 07, 2012, 10:27:52 AM Last Edit: August 08, 2012, 02:33:57 AM by Lisztianwagner
Quite hard to choose only ten conductors! Anyway my list could be:

Herbert von Karajan
Carlos Kleiber
Leonard Bernstein
Mariss Jansons
Claudio Abbado
Daniel Barenboim
Georg Solti
Simon Rattle
Willi Boskovsky
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler
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