Conductors Archive

Japan’s Tragedy Everyone knows about the horrible tragedy in Japan: Earthquake; Tsunami; Nuclear reactor damage; death, injury, and thousands of people are still missing. Alan Gilbert is fairly new as the current conductor of the …

Julia Fischer When I first heard Julia Fischer performing one of the Mozart Violin concerti, I was driving somewhere, and one of my favorite classical radio stations played her recording on the car radio. It …

Gustav Mahler: Symphony #9 Daniel Barenboim leads the Staadskapelle Berlin, on a Unitel Classica DVD The last completed symphony by Mahler required repeated listening on my part before I came to fully understand and appreciate …

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor ‘Resurrection’ Performed by Kate Royal (soprano), and Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle Gustav Mahler’s amazing Symphony No. 2, …

The great Carlos Kleiber In my view, Carlos Kleiber was one of the greatest orchestra conductors during the past 100 years. As a leader, as a musician, as a communicator with players, as a person …