Conductors Archive

Conductor Marin Alsop! In 1989 Marin Alsop was a student conductor at Tanglewood, Massachusetts, where she worked with and learned from Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Her interest in Brahms, Mahler and Bartók is coupled …

Rachmaninoff Symphony #2! Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra perform the wonderfully lyrical Symphony #2 of Rachmaninoff. Slatkin’s reading of this great work is a worthwhile member of any collection. He gets the orchestra …

Rubikis Wins Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition! Ainars Rubikis, 31-year-old conductor, has won the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra’s International Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition. Rubikis won a prize of €20,000 and he conducts the orchestra in a public concert …

Darius Milhaud! On many occasions, we need music just to enjoy it for the fun of it! We need a break from all the serious aspects, funeral marches, tragedies, lost Loves, departed friends, dead heroes, …

Ravel: Concerto in G-Minor  I heard heard this concerto at a Carnegie Hall concert many years ago. Martha Argerich was the soloist, and it was truly a memorable performance. Today I heard a section of …