20 Greatest Conductors

[joggerjayne]

I know I'll have a long wait for any reply here, but I'm peeved.

This month's BBC Music magazine names the 20 Greatest Conductors of all time.

Now I KNOW that this sort of thing is always subjective ... BUT ...

Wilhelm Furtwangler ranked BELOW Simon Rattle ???

Colin Davis IN the Top 20, but Georg Solti NOT in the Top 20 ???

Leonard Bernstein at Number 2 ABOVE Karajan AND Abbado ???

Do you ever look at these things, and think ... "Aah, come on!!!!!!"

[redman41]

1 Bob Grant ( On the Buses ) Groot-Brittannië
3 Wilhelm Fürtwangler 1886 1954 Duitsland
4 Thomas Beecham 1879 1961
5 Otto Klemperer 1885 1973 Duitsland
6 Arturo Toscanini 1867 1957 Italië
7 Bruno Walter 1876 1962 Duitsland
8 Leonard Bernstein 1918 1990 Verenigde Staten
9 Fritz Reiner 1888 1963 Hongarije
10 Adrian Boult 1889 1983 Groot-Brittannië

[joggerjayne]

Aww, thanks redman.

I like the Number 1.

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Now I've got my rant off my chest, I feel as if you and I should share a bottle of wine (okay, maybe three), and then we could wave our glasses at each other and say "Yeah, yeah, that Beecham, he was the dogs boIIocks" and top up our glasses. Oh, by the way ... he made Number 19. Otto Klemperer ... not even in there !!

Have some more wine.

Yeah, thanks.

[redman41]

LOL JJ ! Thought that would get the Wine flowing freely and give some of those on the list a good few days in your Dungeon !
Open the next Bottle JJ !!! :-))))

[joggerjayne]

Okay.

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x

[Astonvanilla]

Loved Simon Rattle conducting at Last Night Of The Proms, eccentric and entertaining also love Andre Previn playing Greig with Morecambe and Wise one of my favourite TV moments of all time

[DTCwordfan]

Andre Previn in there - Previewas he he is known

[joggerjayne]

"Andre Preview" ? LOL

Well, you'd have to like Simon Rattle, AV ... he's your local hero.

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[DTCwordfan]

Benjamin Franklin?

[joggerjayne]

Is that a "lightning" gag ??

[DTCwordfan]

You've got it, jayne lol! Sparking on all cylinders tonight.

Must not make a rod for my back though.

[joggerjayne]

Oh, groan !

[Astonvanilla]

Hi Joggerjayne I have inherited my title from OH who has supported AV since schooldays and lived in the area we now reside in another lovely green part of the UK but AV is still number 1

[DTCwordfan]

Do you have the list? Karajan?

[DTCwordfan]

Mozart?

[joggerjayne]

Oh, I see AV.

[redman41]

This guy is pretty good JJ ! Has he been on the Wine with you ? lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isl629qiJRk&feature=related

[joggerjayne]

Green parts of the UK are good ... but I like blue.

I like being able to look up, and the sky goes all the way out to the edge of the sea horizon, with no buildings in the way, and you think ... WOW, the sky is big here !!

[joggerjayne]

That was funny, redman.

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[Astonvanilla]

Sounds idyllic but a little bit of green to go with the blue makes beautiful scenery I too would love to look at the horizon without all the unspolit surroundings I wonder who could conduct this scenario!