Top 10 conductors that YOU like the most

[kyjo]

Another go:

Previn
Boult
Mackerras
Leppard
Kajanus
Koussevitzky
Thomson
Kondrashin
Furtwangler
Wand

No Malcolm Sargent?

[DizzyD]

In no particular order:

Solti
Karajan
Bernstein
Suzuki
Karl Richter
Rilling
Blomstedt
Böhm
Haitink
Abbado

It's hard for me to make much of a judgement on those conductors whose bulk of recorded work predates the stereo era.

[Symphonic Addict]

Let's see...

Ancerl
Bernstein
Chailly
N. Järvi
Karajan
Kertesz
Martinon
Svetlanov
Szell
Thomson

[Olias]

Bernstein
Mackerras
Gardiner
Alsop
Marriner
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Davis
Dudamel
Abbado
Carneiro

[kyjo]

I never get too obsessed over conductors, but here goes anyway:

#1. Manfred Honeck

(the rest are in no particular order)

Neeme Järvi
Sir Charles Mackerras
Leonard Bernstein
Andrew Litton
Ari Rasilainen
Vernon Handley
Claudio Abbado
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Riccardo Muti

[MusicTurner]

15 interesting eccentrics, by today's standards, IMHO:

- Mengelberg
- Scherchen
- Golovanov
- Stokowski
- Celibidache
- Paray
- Swoboda
- Rodzinsky
- Barbirolli pre-1955
- Ormandy pre-1960
- Beecham
- Gauk
- Klemperer pre-1960
- Furtwangler
- Toscanini

[Szilgyo]

As of 28/08/2022

In no particular order, almost everyone with a starting K or S

Christoph von Dohnanyi
Otto Klemperer
Constantin Silvestri
Herbert von Karajan
Janos Kovacs
Yevgeny Svetlanov
Kurt Sanderling
Otmar Suitner
Gyorgy Solti

[Peter Power Pop]

My 10 favourite conductors (in alphabetical order):

Ernest Ansermet
Riccardo Chailly
Antal Dorati
Charles Dutoit
Jean Martinon
Zubin Mehta
Riccardo Muti
Eugene Ormandy
Seiji Ozawa
Fritz Reiner

Oops. I forgot André Cluytens. (I can't think of who to boot off the list to put Cluytens on.)

Can I make it a Top 11 list?

Oh, I just remembered Frans Brüggen too.

This list thing is hard.

[vandermolen]

No Malcolm Sargent?

Oh no!!! 
How could I forget Sargent?
I'm going to replace Leppard with Sargent.

[Peter Power Pop]

Oh no!!! 
How could I forget Sargent?
I'm going to replace Leppard with Sargent.

Egad! I forgot Sargent for my list too. Grrr.

[vandermolen]

Egad! I forgot Sargent for my list too. Grrr.

And I also forgot Ansermet 
I've now (reluctantly) replaced Mackerras with Ansermet,

[Pohjolas Daughter]

And I also forgot Ansermet 
I've now (reluctantly) replaced Mackerras with Ansermet,

I'm struggling to come up with a list....too many and I have favorites in different repertoire and genres too. 

PD

[Peter Power Pop]

I'm struggling to come up with a list....too many and I have favorites in different repertoire and genres too. 

PD

I hear ya, PD.

[San Antone]

These are the ones I find myself choosing to listen to when I have a choice of the work, and almost always I am listening to a vocal work - not symphonic that often.

Tulio Serafin
Teodor Currentzis
Claudio Abbado
Karl Böhm
Georg Solti
René Jacobs
John Eliot Gardiner
Philippe Herreweghe
Jordi Savall
Michael Gielen

[Skogwald]

1. Karel Ancerl

I will have to think about the others 

[Brian]

alpha:

Leonard Bernstein
Manfred Honeck
Vladimir Jurowski
Charles Mackerras
Jean Martinon
Charles Munch
Jordi Savall
Constantin Silvestri
George Szell
Antoni Wit

Jurowski and Wit are the only ones I've seen live; other really notable live experiences I've had with conductors would include Marin Alsop, Vladimir Ashkenazy (albeit with a student orchestra), Stéphane Denève, Charles "Dirtbag" Dutoit, Susanna Mälkki, and Vasily Petrenko. I've seen Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Neeme Järvi, and of course Dallas' own Fabio Luisi and Jaap van Zweden but wouldn't necessarily put them in that tier.

Three-plus years on, I wrote a new list from scratch, compared it to the old list, and observed these changes:

In place of V. Jurowski, Munch, Savall, and Silvestri, the new list has Ancerl, Markevitch, Previn, and Walter.

The honorable mentions are the same. That all seems fair enough.

Best people I've seen live list is essentially unchanged:
Alsop, Ashkenazy, Denève, Mälkki, V. Jurowski, V. Petrenko, Wit

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Revised:

Ancerl
Markevitch
Dorati
Bernstein
Leinsdorf
Gauk
Haitink
György Lehel
Byron Fidetzis
Hikmet Şimşek

[Brian]

Hikmet Şimşek

My family is Turkish and my relatives have probably attended his concerts, but I am totally unfamiliar with his career. Are there recordings you recommend? Is his work in widespread distribution?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

My family is Turkish and my relatives have probably attended his concerts, but I am totally unfamiliar with his career. Are there recordings you recommend? Is his work in widespread distribution?

These nice albums are available on streaming sites.

[pianoforever]

Here's my list with indication of matching composers:
1. Klemperer. Anything
2. Kubelik. Antyhing
3. Monteux. Anything
4. Chailly. Mahler, Beethoven, Stravinsky
5. Bernstein. Mahler, Haydn, Stravinsky, Bartok, Shostakovich (the little he did)
6. Mackerras. Dvorak, Janacek, Haydn
7. Barenboim. Wagner, Beethoven, Schumann, Mahler (the little he did)
8. Markevitch. Pretty much anything
9. Ancerl. Pretty much anything
10. Walter. Mahler, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart
11. Jochum. Brahms, Haydn, Beethoven