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Conducting

July 2024

  • Keri-Lynn Wilson

    When Putin invaded my country, I couldn’t take up arms – I raised my conductor’s baton instead

    Keri-Lynn Wilson
  • James Loughran<br>Scottish conductor James Loughran, circa 1965. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

    James Loughran obituary

April 2024

  • ‘He made over 600 recordings in five decades’ … Sir Neville Marriner conducts the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite at Carnegie Hall in February 2007.

    Amadeus, Elgar, a bogus gold disc and Goldie Hawn: Neville Marriner’s best recordings

    The great British conductor was born 100 years ago today. His son Andrew picks his father’s most memorable recordings

February 2024

  • Sterben | Dying by Matthias Glasner

    Sterben (Dying) review – the biggest conductor meltdown since Cate Blanchett’s Tár

  • Statement … Kahchun Wong conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall.

    BBCSO/Kahchun Wong review – hints of musical adventure to come

November 2023

  • ‘There was no doubt he was out to shock’ … Cooper as Bernstein in the climactic scenes at Ely Cathedral.

    Wigs, kisses and the pope’s jumpsuit: can Maestro reveal the real Bernstein?

    Bradley Cooper has audiences in raptures as electrifying conductor Leonard Bernstein in a new authorised biopic. Musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra remember playing for the great man – and rate the man who now plays him

October 2023

  • Joana Mallwitz

    Joana Mallwitz is the first woman to lead a Berlin orchestra. And, no, she hasn’t seen Tár

    Comparisons to Cate Blanchett’s fictional conductor abound. But for Mallwitz that is irrelevant – her work is the thing

August 2023

  • Past masters … from left, conductors Eugen Jochum, Bernard Haitink and Mariss Jansons.

    Bruckner: Nine Symphonies review – Concertgebouw’s early gift is a conducting masterclass

  • John Eliot Gardiner conducting

    John Eliot Gardiner pulls out of BBC Proms after punching bass soloist

April 2023

  • Roy Terry, far right, acknowledging applause for the Brass Band Mediterranée at Holy Trinity, Nice, in 2022

    Other lives
    Roy Terry obituary

    Other lives: Educationist with a leading role in brass band music in Britain and France

March 2023

  • Cate Blanchett in Tár

    Harassment, hierarchies and discreetly rubbed trousers: the exhausting politics of orchestras

    Cate Blanchett film Tár shows how damaging a maniacal conductor can be – but, as musicians explain, orchestras are riven with other serious structural issues

January 2023

  • Australian conductor Natalie Murray Beale

    Power behind the baton: the conductor who prepared Cate Blanchett for Tár

    The Oscar-winning actor turned to Natalie Murray Beale to learn the conducting skills that underpin her latest film role

November 2022

  • AUSTRIA-HEALTH-VIRUS-MUSIC<br>British conductor Daniel Harding conducts musicians of Vienna's Philharmonic Orchestra during a rehearsal at Musikverein music hall in Vienna on May 20, 2021, prior to the orchestra's appearance in front of an audience since November 2020, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. - Vienna's classical musicians are preparing once again to grace the city's stages after months of separation from their audiences which have tested their commitment and played havoc with their practice. - TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Anne BEADE (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Anne BEADE (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘It’s OK to take risks in concerts because there it’s safe to do so’: Conductor Daniel Harding on his double life as an airline pilot

    He’s been on the podium with the world’s leading orchestras but, he says, his new parallel career flying for Air France has taught him things he never learned in 30 years of music making

October 2022

  • FILE - Czech conductor Libor Pesek conducts during a concert with Czech National Symphony Orchestra in Municipal House, Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday, January 18, 2017. Pesek, a Czech classical music conductor known for leading the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for a decade has died. Pešek died on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022 at age of 89, says Jan Hasenöhrl, the director of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra where Pesek was a chief conductor till 2019. (Michal Dolezal/CTK via AP, File)

    Libor Pešek obituary

    Musician and conductor whose generous spirit infused his recordings with orchestras across the world

September 2022

  • The Royal Northern Sinfonia conducted by Lars Vogt perform Beethoven's `symphonies No's 7&8 at the Beethoven Weekender at the Barbican Centre on Sunday 2 Feb. 2020. Photo by Mark Allan

    ‘With Lars Vogt, there was a collective trust and spirit of generosity between orchestra and maestro’

  • A tour de force of control … Cate Blanchett in Tár.

    First look review
    Tár review – Cate Blanchett is colossal as a conductor in crisis

March 2022

  • Klaus Mäkelä.

    Sibelius: The Symphonies and Tapiola review – Mäkelä veers between the outstanding and prosaic

    The prodigious young talent has an exclusive recording contract with Decca but his debut – a Sibelius symphony cycle – is frustratingly uneven

January 2022

  • Alert playing … Kazuki Yamada conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

    CBSO/Yamada review – chief conductor-in-waiting brings spirit but not subtlety

  • Oksana Lyniv

    Female conductor takes the helm in first for Italian opera

November 2021

  • Perfect clarity … Klaus Mäkelä conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

    LPO/Mäkelä review – anticipated debut sees young Finnish conductor blend excitement with refinement

    Royal Festival Hall, London
    At just 25, Klaus Mäkelä combines the vivaciousness of youth with a flawless precision to startling effect, aided by an immaculate LPO
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