Top 10 conductors that YOU like the most

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

New list:


Ancerl
Markevitch
Stokowski
Steinberg
Toscanini
Bernstein
Leinsdorf
György Lehel
Byron Fidetzis
Hikmet Şimşek

[vandermolen]

Probably similar to my previous list/s
Boult
Furtwangler
Previn
Ansermet
Copland
Bryden Thomson
Barbirolli
Koussevitzky
Mravinsky
Hamilton Harty

[foxandpeng]

Probably, for now. No order. Because of their material that I've been enjoying recently...

Kondrashin
Petrenko
Lloyd Jones
Lindberg
Vanska
Jarvi
Storgårds
Kitayenko
Handley
Gergiev

Probably no change here.

[hopefullytrusting]

Currently, the only conductor I seek out is Hermann Scherchen.

I find most conductors either interchangeable or too self-indulgent.

[Roasted Swan]

There must be an algorithm out there designed just to annoy me.  I got sent a link from one of these deeply pointless BBC Music Magazine lists recently "The 30 Greatest Conductors of all time" (my bolded text.

OK there can be a bit of dinner-table fun to this wholly subjective list but rather than - sensibly - as here, make it conductors an individual likes this suggests a kind of global, not to be denied hierarchy.  So a couple of frankly absurd inclusions - Nathalie Stutzmann is there!!!  Fine fine singer, a conductor of great potential I am sure, but already one of the "greatest of all time" - so foolish it does her no service.  One post and one release with a 2nd tier American orchestra.... 

Of course conductors with no discography are automatically excluded - so nobody from the 19th Century or earlier.  But also no-one like Henry Wood or Boult or any number of Russian/Soviet conductors (except Mravinsky).  All in all a remarkably blinkered and limited/obvious list.