Such extraordinary generosity from a major international conductor is surely unique.

Subsequently the Choir recorded with major conductors and orchestras.

Dodge had the Reconstruction finance bank, which was a major conductor of inflation-financed subsidies, shut down.

He is emerging quickly as a major operatic conductor.

Here is a major conductor, no doubt about that, perhaps the best one in the world today who does not have a steady job.

Second, even if he were both, these are not unusual qualities for a major conductor.

He received international fame both as a major conductor and composer of the 20th century.

Indeed, apart from Toscanini, no other major conductor was so ill served sonically on his recordings.

Among the major conductors of recent decades, Colin Davis, who turned 69 last month, is the most enigmatic.

Since then, most major conductors have committed Mahler cycles to disc.