I am sharing a list of the greatest symphonic performers:
Even if incomplete and in random order (let's say in alphabetical order by name), a young conductor cannot ignore this list; I will not dwell on today's teaching methods and the lack of desire among the younger generation to Know. Today we have at our disposal an immense listening heritage on CD, DVD, and online platforms, though not everything is available there. Here they are:
André Cluytens (Belgium, 1905)
Andre Previn (USA, 1929)
Antal Dorati (Hungary, 1906)
Arturo Toscanini (Italy, 1867)
Bernard Haitink (Holland, 1929)
Bruno Walter (Germany, 1876)
Carl Schuricht (Poland, 1880)
CarloMaria Giulini (Italy, 1914)
Carlos Kleiber (Austria, 1930)
Charles Dutoit (Switzerland, 1936)
Charles Münch (France, 1891)
Claudio Abbado (Italy, 1933)
Daniel Barenboim (Argentina, 1942)
Dmitri Mitropoulos (USA, 1896)
Ernest Ansermet (Switzerland, 1883)
Eugen Jochum (Germany, 1902)
Eugene Ormandy (Hungary, 1889)
Evgeny Svetlanov (Russia, 1928)
Fritz Reiner (Hungary, 1888)
Georg Solti (Hungary, 1912)
Gyorgy Szell (Hungary, 1897)
Herbert von Karajan (Austria, 1908)
Hermann Scherchen (Germany, 1891)
Jascha Horenstein (Russia, 1898)
John Barbirolli (Britain, 1899)
Karel Ančerl (Bohemia, 1908)
Karl Bohm (Austria, 1894)
Kirill Kondrashin (Russia, 1914)
Leonard Bernstein (USA, 1918)
Leopold Stokowski (Britain, 1882)
Lorin Maazel (USA, 1930)
Neeme Jarvi (Estonia, 1937)
Neville Marriner (Britain, 1924)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Austria, 1929)
Otto Klemperer (Germany, 1885)
Pierre Monteux (France, 1875)
Rafael Kubelik (Czech, 1914)
Riccardo Muti (Italy, 1941)
Seiji Ozawa (Japan, 1935)
Serge Koussevitsky (Russia, 1874)
Sergej Aleksandrovič Koussevitsky (Russia, 1874)
Sergiu Celibidache (Romania, 1912)
Simon Rattle (Britain, 1955)
Wilhelm Furtwängler (Germany, 1886)
Willem Mengelberg (Holland, 1871)
Wolfgang Sawallisch (Germany, 1923)
Yevgeni Mravinsky (Russia, 1903)
Zubin Mehta (India, 1936)