Who are your favourite five conductors, seen live.?

[salymap]

Well, as I've been unable to attend concerts for some time, my list is,no particular order.


Beecham
Boult
Sargent
Colin Davis
Furtwangler [once seen but never forgotten]


What about you?

[jean]

Petrenko, obviously.

Who else is there?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Boult
Barbirolli
Maazel
Elder
Bernstein
...but permit me to revise this list.

[Thropplenoggin]

I haven't seen enough to list five..........yet.

However, by virtue of the fact I lived in Paris, I did see Daniele Gatti a few times in Mahler and Beethoven. He does sometimes come to London and I wholly endorse a visit to see him. I was never disappointed with his performances, and nor was the person I went, a man who has an astonishing wealth of live concert experience, including a trip to Bayreuth.

[VodkaDilc]

Boult
Goodall
Britten
Solti
Nelsons

[Barbirollians]

Rattle
Barenboim
Pappano
Elder
Mackerras

[BBMmk2]

leinsdorf
Rattle
Previn
Andrew Litton
Rozhdestvensky

[Nick Armstrong]

Tennstedt
Bernstein
Svetlanov
Abbado
Jurowski*




*Was going to say Haitink but I felt there should be someone alive and under 50...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Karajan
Bernstein
Tennstedt
Svetlanov
Rattle

[Nick Armstrong]

Karajan
Bernstein
Tennstedt
Svetlanov
Rattle

Interesting overlaps, fhg! I havered about Karajan. I was at that last RFH concert (Verklärte Nacht, Brahms 1) and it was tremendous... but Abbado nicks it (not only because I've seen him so much more often)

[Zucchini]

Jurowski*
*Was going to say Haitink but I felt there should be someone alive and under 50

Agreed. I'll add Nelsons who's still under 35.

[BBMmk2]

Tennstedt
Bernstein
Svetlanov
Abbado
Jurowski*




*Was going to say Haitink but I felt there should be someone alive and under 50...

Ah! how could I forget Haitink! Thanks Cali! I remember to wonderful concerts. A prom performance that had Holst's The Planets and a turly remarkable performance of Shosta's 4th

[jayne lee wilson]

Petrenko, obviously.

Who else is there?

Oh yes, another vote for Vasily from me too!

On the Berlin DCH, the three I've found most compelling would be Rattle, Haitink and - Emmanuelle Haim with the wondrous, wild red mane (hope she hasn't cut it...). Seek out the concert she gave with the Berliners of Rameau and Handel. Marvellous to hear and magnetic to watch.

[Thropplenoggin]

Agreed. I'll add Nelsons who's still under 35.

That's making me ever more likely to stump up for some of his Brahms cycle at the RFH next season.

[AmpH]

Tennstedt
Previn
Pappano
Hickox
I.Fischer