Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-229) and discography.
Contents:
In search of maestros -- History of conducting -- American orchestras -- Arturo Toscanini's baton technique -- Arturo Toscanini : Samuel Barber's Adagio for strings -- Wilhelm Furtwängler : Beethoven's Pastoral symphony (1st movement) -- Serge Koussevitzky : Sibelius's Symphony #2 (1st movement) -- Willem Mengelberg : Strauss' Ein Heldenleben -- Bruno Walter : Mozart's Linz symphony (1st movement) -- Leopold Stokowski : Debussy's Prelude to the afternoon of a faun -- Otto Klemperer : Beethoven's Eroica symphony (finale) -- Guido Cantelli : Hindemith's Mathis der Mahler -- Rafael Kubelik : Mussorgsky's Pictures at an exhibition -- Fritz Reiner : Bartok's Concerto for orchestra (1st movement) -- Artur Rodzinski : Tchaikovsky's Symphony #4 (finale) -- Adrian Boult : Holst's Planets (Mars) -- George Szell : Dvořák's Symphony #9 (finale) -- Pierre Monteux : Stravinsky's Rite of spring -- Dimitri Mitropoulos : Schönberg's Transfigured night -- Eugene Ormandy : Rachmaninoff's Symphonic dances -- Herbert von Karajan : Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony (1st movement) -- Leonard Bernstein : in memorial : Candide overture -- Georg Solti : Mahler's Fifth symphony (1st movement) -- Carlos Kleiber : Beethoven's 7th symphony (1st movement) -- Carlo Giulini : Mahler's 1st symphony (finale) -- Pierre Boulez : expansion of musical sound -- Freedom with discipline : an interview with Christoph von Dohnányi -- My real idol was Bruno Walter : an interview with Kurt Masur -- Precision with spontaneity : an interview with Herbert Blomstedt -- From Vaughan Williams to Elgar : an interview with Richard Hickox -- Evaluating conductors with Michel Debost -- Evaluating conductors with James DeSano.
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