Still, two concerts will be conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, the veteran Spanish conductor of German-Spanish heritage, whose chemistry with the orchestra has produced some celebrated performances in recent seasons.
His successor, Lorin Maazel, proved a missed blessing, but the 18-year tenure of German conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi, Maazel's successor, who arrived in 1984, marked a return to the Szell tradition.
Even when he was younger, Kurt Masur seemed the embodiment of the Old World conductor, a German musician of discipline and rectitude, steeped in the great repertory, technically assured and immune to flashiness.
Mr. Wand was often called the last in a long line of German conductors that ran from Arthur Nikisch to Wilhelm Furtwängler and Karl Böhm.
In 2008 the orchestra was voted "the world's greatest" by an international panel of music critics; CDs and DVDs by Jansons with the RCO on its own label, RCO Live, have received countless international prizes, and in 2011 Jansons was named "conductor of the year" by German magazine Opernwelt.
Directed by Stephen Daldry, and adapted by David Hare from the novel by Bernhard Schlink, it stars Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz, a tram conductor in the German town of Neustadt.
(Woolfe) ★ Swedish Chamber Orchestra (Thursday) Nina Stemme, one of today's reigning dramatic sopranos, joins this Swedish ensemble and its Danish conductor, Thomas Dausgaard, in a wide-ranging survey of German and Scandinavian songs.
March 11 2012 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, a hardy veteran conductor of Romantic repertory, leads the distinguished German ensemble in Weber's "Der Freischütz" Overture, Dvořák's Cello Concerto (with the dashing Gautier Capuçon), and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
After digging through newspaper archives, census records, telephone directories, and shipping manifests, I concluded that he was Albert Schindelmeisser, the son of Louis Schindelmeisser, a distinguished German composer and conductor of the mid-nineteenth century, and an ally of Wagner and Liszt.
The critic William Mann, along with many others, regarded him as a "supremely authoritative" conductor of Brahms, though Cardus disagreed: "In German music Monteux, naturally enough, missed harmonic weight and the right heavily lunged tempo.
In opting for Barbirolli, the Philharmonic opted for a conductor neither German nor Jewish, and passed over a battalion of better-qualified candidates.
