Conductors

Klaus Mäkelä and the age of the multitasking maestro.

The famed composer-conductor had a dire, sweaty passion for music, and the new bio-pic has a six-minute set piece that strikingly conveys his joy in the power of sound.

The Maestro on the Paradiso of hors d’œuvres.

The star of “Tár” reunites with her opening-scene partner for a conversation about listening to music, going before audiences, and the art of acting in life and in the movies.

The writer-director returns to the big screen after a sixteen-year absence. Plus: how Lydia Tár (maybe) earned her EGOT.

Starring Cate Blanchett as a conductor accused of misconduct, the film takes bitter aim at so-called cancel culture.

The conductor’s close ties to the Russian regime were brushed aside for too long, but imposing a moral test on musicians is a hazardous path. 

Herbert Blomstedt’s readings deftly combine vigor and lyricism.

Currentzis, who leads the orchestra musicAeterna, is an emotive and physically expressive conductor who imparts a presence that feels both corporal and psychological.

The conductor’s conservatism is a troubling signal from a historically great orchestra that ought to be assuming a leadership role in classical music.

There has long been a nimbus of greatness and moral quandary around Furtwängler, but listening to his wartime work in chronological order is a demythologizing experience.

On the centenary of his birth, a memoir captures what it’s like being raised by a man with mythic successes and long-held secrets.

In performances with the London Symphony, Simon Rattle balances the composer’s precision and passion.

No maestro was more revered—or more reviled. On the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, it’s time to give him a fair hearing.