Greatest conductors and orchestras

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Conductors


Claudio Abbado
Daniel Barenboim (Berlin State Opera)
Leonard Bernstein
Karl Bohm
Pierre Boulez
Charles Dutoit (Philadelphia)
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Carlo-Maria Giulini
Bernard Haitink
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Mariss Jansons (Concertgebouw Orchestra)
Vladimir Jurowski (London Philharmonic)
Herbert von Karajan
Otto Klemperer
Rafael Kubelik
James Levine (Boston Symphony, New York Metropolitan Opera)
Lorin Maazel (New York)
Neville Marriner
Zubin Mehta (Israel Philharmonic)
Riccardo Muti (Chicago)
Seiji Ozawa (Vienna State Opera)
Andre Previn
Esa-Pekka Salonen (Los Angeles)
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Georg Solti
Michael-Tilson Thomas (San Francisco)
Arturo Toscanini
Bruno Walter
Franz Welser-Most (Cleveland)

Orchestras

  1. Wiener Philharmoniker
  2. Berliner Philharmoniker
  3. Concertgebouw
  4. London Symphony Orchestra
  5. Boston Symphony Orchestra
  6. New York Philharmonic
  7. Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  8. Orchestre de Paris
  9. Staatskapelle Dresden
  10. Bavarian Radio Symphony
  11. BBC Symphony Orchestra
  12. Cleveland Orchestra
  13. Ceska Filharmonie
  14. Los Angeles Philharmonic
  15. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
  16. Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
  17. London Philharmonic Orchestre
  18. Moscow Radio and Television Symphony Orchestre
  19. Munchener Philharmoniker
  20. St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
  21. Orchestre National de France
  22. Philadelphia Orchestra
  23. Philharmonia
  24. San Francisco Symphony
  25. State Symphonique Orchestra of Russia