I suppose that I am just suffering from the besetting sin of the "getting older" generation that feels that nothing is ever as good as it used to be ;D ;D
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Yes, I find policemen are getting younger and younger all the time :)
Perhaps the flip side of that same coin is that the younger generation of conductors have to try harder and harder to live up to the accumulated tradition of excellence that preceded them. They must offer something extra-special to make a recording of a mainstream work.
With that in mind I am constantly impressed by the new generation of young conductors we see around these days :) Mainly I see the Moscow-based conductors, including Alexei Osetrov and Alexei Bogorad (both are Rozhdestvensky students), Mikhail Yegyazaryan (Ponkin pupil), Marius Stravinsky (yes, a great-grandson - studied in London). And young Brit Will Lacey, who conducted "Midsummer Night's Dream" in Moscow recently - a show which won "Best Production" last week.
There's also the 20-year-old Maximilian "Max" Ermelyantsev, who is still at the Conservatory. "We don't know what else we can teach him? He's better than we are." one professor sighed...
