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- Subject: Re: Greatest living conductors
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- References: <1992Dec17.163848.21628@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <BzF575.C2C@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec18.015111.13047@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:10:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.015111.13047@news.columbia.edu> rsm13@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ravi S Moorthy) writes:
- >In article <BzF575.C2C@news.cso.uiuc.edu> bjh42543@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian J. Haag) writes:
- >>fernande@cps.msu.edu (Jose Roberto Fernandez) writes:
- >>
- >>>Inspired by the recent thread about greatest living pianists, I
- >>>propose another thread on the "greatest living conductors." So,
- >>>who do you think are the greatest living (or recently died)
- >>>conductors? I nominate the following for the top tier:
- >>
- >>>*Karajan, Solti, Giulini, and *Bernstein
- >>>(additional possibilities being Abbado, Haitink, and Maazel)
- >>>(*-died recently)
- >>
- >>Giulini is good, but I really don't think that he belongs in the same category
- >>with the other three that you mentioned. Also, I would nominate the fast-
- >>rising Simon Rattle for the second tier along with Giulini.
- >
- >I would add
- >1) Michael Tilson Thomas to it. I liked his Prokofiev's
- > Symphony no 5
- >
- >2) Pinnock, Ashkenazy, Dutoit, Boulez, Jarvi and Leppard.
- >
- >There are other names also but I would stick to these.
- >
- >Ravi
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- How about Zubin Mehta?
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