alanbeeb
pfm Member
I came to this thread hoping to learn how those in-the-know rated Mehta and Ozawa, as I have a fair bit of both. I suppose their absence means they run hot and cold(?).
Never heard anything by Mehta that justifies that he keeps getting gigs with the likes of the Vienna and Berlin Phil..... he's never bad but never that great either. Fell asleep watching him conduct Bruckner 8 once. But as mentioned earlier, his Turandot with Pavarotti and Sutherland is quite something.
Ozawa - hit or miss, heard good and dull from him. Good Bruckner & Brahms with his Saito Kinen Orchestra, dull Mahler with the Boston Symphony.. but a stunning Gurrelieder, years before it became a fashionable event piece.