Here’s a little roundup of some of the main posts under the conducting tag so far (see also Conducting from memory).

Bernstein features in several posts, notably under Mahler:

• Mahler 1 (also Tennstedt, Abbado, Mitropoulos, Barbirolli, Walter)
• Mahler 2 (also Abbado, Tennstedt, Rattle, Dudamel, Walter)
• Mahler 3 (also Abbado)
• Mahler 4 (also Mengelberg, Walter, Barbirolli, Tilson Thomas, Abbado)
• Mahler 5 (also Tennstedt, Abbado)
• Mahler 6 (also Mitropooulos, Barbirolli, Tennstedt, Abbado)
• Mahler 7 (also Abbado, Rattle, Petrenko, Tennstedt)
• Mahler 9 (also Abbado) (and see Mahler: quintuplets, and gender, with Mahler 3)
• Mahler 10 (also Rattle, Barshai)

See also

• Tom Wolfe’s virtuosic essay Radical chic
• and thoughts on the movie Maestro.

As to Abbado, do also admire his rapport in accompanying

• Magdalena Kožená in an exquisite Mahler song,
• and Hélène Grimaud in Rachmaninoff.

The great Rozhdestvensky:

• Noddy: the art of conducting (notably the most wonderful film, which you MUST watch!!!)

This post features Mravinsky as well as Rozhdestvensky and Bernstein:

• Tchaik 6, conductors, applause

The contrasting fortunes of Fürtwangler and Schwarz under Nazism:

• Trauma: music, art, objects

Pierre Monteux features under

• The late great Hugh Maguire
• Ravel.

Most magical is

• Carlos Kleiber, notably his spellbinding Brahms 2!

See also

• Klaus Tennstedt
• The Celibidache mystique
• In memory of Seiji Ozawa.

S-S-Simon Rattle (for this rendition of the name, constantly on the t-t-tip of my tongue, see here):

• Conducting from memory
• Mahler 2, 6, 7, and 10 (see above)
• The Matthew Passion, staged
• Rattle’s Ravel, or Ravel’s rattle
• Messiaen’s transcendent éclairs.

Barbara Hannigan:

• Lulu
• Gepopo
• Soundscapes of Nordic noir
• La voix humaine
• Bach, Haydn, Berg, Vivier
• Mahler and Messiaen!!!

Among many others featured under the conducting tag are Boulez, Gardiner, and Salonen (and this story about the latter is one of many drôle items).

See also A German Requiem, with versions by Barenboim, Klemperer, Furtwängler, Celibidache, Tennstedt, and Gardiner.

But “No [survey of the art of conducting] is Complete Without” this exhilarating clip of a Mexican school band—this conductor, Oxana Thaili, could go far… (for more, click here):