Lorin Maazel
Enclosure acts
‘I don’t want to do my work. I want to go for a walk. I want to eat all the…
Maestro maker
When Margaret Thatcher imagined perfect power, she thought of the orchestral conductor. ‘She envied me,’ said Herbert von Karajan, ‘that…
Knights of the baton
Matthew Stadlen talks to three conductors about growing old very gracefully
Codes of conduct
Not long ago the great conductors of classical music were general practitioners. They expected to give satisfactory interpretations of music…
