Leader/Concertmaster for thirty years:
London Philharmonic Orchestra
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London
Guest Leader & Director,
English Chamber Orchestra
The Principal & Principal Guest Conductors during his tenure with these orchestras were:
London Philharmonic Orchestra:
Haitink | Giulini | Solti | Barenboim | Boult |
Krips | Jochum | Dohnányi | Kubelik |
Rostropovich | Shostakovich | Stokowski | Szell
New York Philharmonic Orchestra:
Bernstein | Boulez | Mehta | Levine | Leinsdorfl
Ormandy | Abbado
BBC Symphony Orchestra:
Rozhedestvensky | Pritchard | Davis | Boulez |
Slatkin | Ozawa | Maazel | Bernstein
London Symphony Orchestra:
Monteux | Szell | Dorati | Shuricht | Kertesz
Composer-Conductors worked with: Stravinsky | Britten | Walton | Bliss | Barber | Copland | Bernstein | Boulez | Hindemith | Tippett | Lutoslawski | Henze | Birtwistle | Maxwell Davies | Berio | Schuller
With these orchestras, has recorded several times all the major concertos with the leading soloists:
Horowitz | Rubinstein | Arrau | Barenboim |
O¡strakh | Stern | Milstein | Perlman |
Zuckerman | Rostropovich
Recorded and performed more or less the entire repertoire with these orchestras and musicians worldwide
Worked from and performed the entire Mahler literature from the composer's personal markings and bowings, as he had performed it with the New York Philharmonic during his tenure as their musical director
ln London, recorded all of Elgar's music with Sir Adrian Boult, who gave most of the first performances of Elgar's works
As leader of the LSO played the Brahms symphonies with Carl Shuricht, who had studied and worked closely with the composer
With Josef Krips (Vienna Philharmonic) studied and played regularly all of the tone poems of Strauss