visions (...)I wonder if there are any conductors, present or past, who could be called "Gouldian" in this sense, who take great pains to bring an "x-ray" transparency to a score, who dare to defy conventions just to be true to their artistic
Otto Klemperer for transparency. Leopold Stokowski on the artistic visions (and on giving a very prominent bass, as GG did).... Perhaps Herrmann Scherchen and Willem Mengelberg on Gouldian extremes of tempo.
Bradley Lehman Dayton VA http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl