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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

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"The personality is in the music"

Posted by rbolaw on January 7, 2017 at 19:33:22:
Yup, good point. But it's also true that the days of a single conductor carefully molding his orchestra for decades are long gone, and instead we have international "big name" conductors jetting from city to city, though that doesn't mean they don't develop good working relations with certain orchestras on a semi-formal or informal basis.

And imo Chris is right (darn it!) that a top orchestra could play the Dvorak symphonies without a conductor, even the relatively obscure early ones. The most a guest or even a regular conductor would likely do is make some general decisions about overall approach, tempo, balance and certain key passages. All that matters, but often less than one might think.

OTOH, the success of a recording, as opposed to a live performance, depends very much on a team of people in addition to the orchestra, only one of whom is the conductor. All of which means it's hard to judge a conductor from competent recordings of standard repertoire by top orchestras.