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Rainy Saturday here in Virginia and have been thinking about this post for a while.
1. Igor Markevitch (especially for his Tchaikovsky symphonies)
2. Ernest Ansermet (especially for his ballet music)
3. Artur Rodzinsky (best interpretation of Dvorak New World)
4. Eugene Ormandy
5. Maurice Abravanel
Honorable mention:
Neville Marriner
Leonard Bernstein
Paul Paray
Herman Scherchen
Alan Hovhaness (conducting his own music)
Sim
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is one of my faves too, and to the Tchaik, I'd add Berlioz and Stravisnky and Mozart. To me, his performances frequently seemed more exciting and "alive" compared to those of many of his contemporaries.
FWIW, Toscanini would top my list.
Jeremy
This may be off the topic a bit, but I thought I'd forward a story about Boulez. This guy had great ears. We were playing full tilt (I don't know what piece it was), when suddenly he stopped the orchestra what seemed to us for no reason. He glared at a bass player and pointed "out". We resumed the rehearsal after he was gone.
My late wife went to Juilliard, and she was fond of relating a similar story, albeit one with a happier ending. Boulez was presiding over a conducting class, and they were playing the Rite of Spring, I believe. After a cacophonous fortissimo tutti chord, he stopped the group and asked the conductor what was wrong with the chord. The student paused for amoment, then calmly replied that the third horn had played an F instead of an F sharp (or something like that). When Boulez grudgingly agreed that he was correct, the orchestra went nuts. That was a test people were not supposed to pass!
Edits: 10/05/15
But an absolute no on Eugene Ormandy for me. I do not like his interpretations and find him dull. I would add Carlos Kleiber and Christian Thielemann for his Beethoven Egmont.
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Ernest Ansermet
Guido Cantelli
Pierre Boulez
Carlos Kleiber
Imagine what additions there might be if we had not lost a generation (or two) to inferior digital recordings!
I feel that many of the recordings made in the 80s and 90s are almost unlistenable, even when you can find them on vinyl.
In no particular order:
Bruno Walter
Georg Szell
Guido Cantelli
Pierre Monteux
Otto Klemperer
I will keep Markevitch, and replace the other four:
1 Horenstein (best interpretation of the Dvorak New World)
2 Monteux
3 Fricsay (did not live long enough to record much on LP)
4 Kondrashin
Runners-up:
Klemperer, Bohm, Boult
For a man who died as young as he did (late 40s), he left a significant recorded legacy, including a many of the Beethoven symphonies and other Beethoven (Fidelio, Triple Concerto, others), Mozart (including several of the operas), Bartok (many consider his interpretations of be at or near the top),Brahms, Wagner, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and many others. He was very much one of DG's key conductors up to the time of his death -during much of that time, Karajan recorded chiefly for EMI and Fricsay was probably DG's leading star. I can't think of another DG conductor who made as made recordings as did Fricsay in the 50's, both mono and stereo.DG's complete Fricsay edition (Vol I and II) - fills 82 CDs. All of these recordings were originally on LP, so I suspect Fricsay made well over 100 LPs during his career.
Completely agree with your of inclusion of him as a top conductor on LP.
Edits: 10/04/15
I'll replace Horenstein with Munch, and keep the other four (ed.: nah, I'm replacing Kondrashin with Cluytens too). For your runners up, I'll replace Klemperer with van Beinum.
Edits: 10/04/15
The one Hermann Scherchen album my father has was one that he got in college -- Haydn Syms 95 & 100. The record feels like a piece of asphalt when you pull it out of the jacket. Hefty.
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