Ionarts-at-Large: Ageing Maestros and a Youthful Knight-Errant

Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, and an errant sheep from Don Quixote
Some conductors get more interesting with age (Riccardo Chailly!), some probe new depths (Vänskä), many get increasingly more bland and boring (Mehta, Maazel), some are merely tolerated on the podium because of past achievements (Previn) or because they’d die if they didn’t any longer have conducting.

The most obvious example