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The Art of Conducting 2011
The Art of Conducting 2011
Chris Christodoulou's photographs from the Proms show conductors giving their all
Saturday, 14 July 2012
Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits drags every last drop of musical expression from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the 2011 BBC PromsAll images © BBC/Chris Christodoulou
The greatest music festival of them is once more upon us. Throughout our extensive coverage of last year's BBC Proms, we featured the remarkable work of photographer Chris Christodoulou. We have asked Chris to select his favourite pictures of conductors at work, and we present them again for your entertainment and enlightenment as the world's greatest conductors again take to the podium for the summer to show exactly what it takes to do what they do.
The portraits find the maestri of the podium displaying the full range of communicative emotions - commanding, pleading, imperious, plaintive. Click on the images to see the conductors in all their gurning, bug-eyed glory. And we can all look forward to more from incisive portraits seen through Chris's all-glimpsing lens.
Jiří Bělohlávek, Prom 1
Antonio Pappano, Prom 2
Martyn Brabbins, Prom 4
Myung-Whun Chung, Prom 5
Mark Elder, Prom 9
Juanjo Mena, Prom 10
Semyon Bychkov, Prom 13
Vladimir Jurowski, Prom 15
Thierry Fischer, Prom 16
Oliver Knussen, Prom 19
Gianandrea Noseda, Prom 22
Andrew Davis, Proms 24
Donald Runnicles, Prom 27
Peter Phillips, Prom 28
Gustavo Dudamel, Proms 29
Vassily Sinaisky, Prom 37
Andrew Litton, Prom 40
Valeri Gergiev, Prom 42
Bernard Haitink, Prom 47
Andrew Manze, Prom 48
Stephen Layton, Prom 50
Thomas Dausgaard, Prom 51
Paul McCreesh, Prom 58
John Wilson, Prom 59
Jaap van Zvweden, Prom 60
David Robertson, Prom 61
Zubin Mehta, Prom 62
Iván Fischer, Prom 63
Jac van Steen, Prom 65
Colin Davis, Prom 67
Manfred Honeck, Prom 69
John Eliot Gardiner, Prom 73
Edward Gardner, Prom 74
The portraits find the maestri of the podium displaying the full range of communicative emotions - commanding, pleading, imperious, plaintive
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