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Hi Everyone, this is my first Post on this Forum. I'm 17 years old and I love classical music and i'm very interested in talking about recordings as well. I have seen some instances of Composers like Sibelius and Rachmaninoff saying that a conductor/performer conducts/plays their piece exactly...

Hi all, I am curious about your thoughts. Do you know any important composers/musicians/conductors with major insecurities or doubts? For example, I know that Carlos Kleiber was a very insecure conductor who always had a plane ticket in his pocket in case he wanted to return before the...

There already are two threads that include performer birthdays, but they haven't had any posts in awhile. Plus one is just for opera singers while the other includes composer birthdays which we already have a thread for. So I'm creating this thread which may be even more inclusive than the old...

I have heard people scoff at the cult of conductors and I understand that to a degree but I've heard recordings of Jochum, Klemperer and Bohm - all with big-name orchestras - give readings which are utterly forgettable -- the very same orchestras that could give awesome performances of the very...

Seen in the news, and my parents are like: "look look" like it was some news about Lady Gaga or Nicki Minaj. I'm not THAT gullible! (I do like modern stages everyone seems to bash out, they make my day, they make me laugh.) Please, opinions about the robot, not Bocelli.

This answer in the Karajan.... poll thread led me to open this new thread. I do think that Karajan recordings have a lot of mastering on them and sometimes it sounds unnatural, but if he could be different on Live Concerts, I wonder... Do some of you praise Live recordings over Studio versions...

Hello All, I had a question on my mind and this forum seemed the most appropriate to ask it. I am an avid listener of classical works, I am moved by this sort of music, so I do expect performers and orchestra conductors be moved by their music too. However it feels like conductors are...

Hello all! Good to see you all are alive and well, sorta. I feel like for the past 4 years while I was in college, I completely neglected TC except for scant posts in the community forum and a little bit of Russian propagating here and there. I'm sorry to have missed the discussions of so many...

I'm sure it's safe to say we all have our handful of conductors whom we have come to love and respect over the years for their various contributions and interpretations of classical symphonies, but is there a conductor (it can be more than one) that just really falls flat for you, either...

It has always shamed me to admit that I'm no connoisseur when it comes to conductors. Being that there are so many so called "Maestros" out there to choose from especially when it comes to selection of recording. This is why I love youtube because I can view multiple versions until I find the...

Top this if you can! (I know, he does not look so good today:eek:, but ....)

Hello. I was recommended a few Sibelius symphonies in my very first thread, and would like to give them all a proper listen. Far be it for me (a classical noob at this point) to criticise a renowned conductor, but I first listened to the Sibelius symphonies interpreted by Leonard Bernstein. I...

I heard the Florida Orchestra perform this and it was absolutely incredible. All the more so because it was conducted by Mei-Ann Chen. I didn't even know there were female conductors. And she was probably the best conductor I've seen so far. She was so enthusiastic. In any case.....what...

I've noticed that there are few recordings of Schoenberg's twelve-tone works by Big Name conductors and/or solists. Take the seminal Variations for Orchestra op. 31. You have the Boulez recordings, of course, and the Karajan, as well as Rattle and a more recent Barenboim. Maybe there are two or...

Quite a fun and interesting documentary on conductors from 1993. Maestros voicing their opinions here include Maazel, Solti, Salonen, Mehta, Slatkin. Orchestra players and critics also weigh in. Some pretty frank statements about incompetence, charlatans, and the dirty classical music business...

Before the LP era (or rather, the 78 rpms and cylinder recordings), there were superstars on the podium proven to be great Wagnerians (like opera singers, conductors were looked at as superstars in those days, just ask Erica Slezak, goddaughter of Alma Mahler and granddaughter of Leo Slezak, a...

Conducting Verdi's operas is one of the most dangerous tasks, imo. Verdi's music can sound sublime or quite dull, depending on who's holding the baton... I have in mind some prestigious but "unsuited" conductors I've heard live at La Scala who just ruined the performance by delivering in the...

An op-ed article by Barbara Hannigan about conductors, women conductors, sexism, etc. It really is way past time that more women made their way in the conducting field. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/11/barbara-hannigan-conducting-britten-sinfonia I have to ask ... just what...

I'm fortunate enough to live in Chicago, where we have Riccardo Muti as the music director of the CSO. I was reading this article on the New York Times, about the New York Philarmonic's struggle to find a new music director. This got me wondering... who are the shining lights in America's...

I am not quite sure where this belongs ... conductors, opera, vocal ... so by default, it goes here! In the Hoffman thread, the comment was made about Georges Pretre probably not being self-effacing and that made me start thinking about what it would have taken to be one of Maria Callas'...