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What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Conducting

The discography of the New York Philharmonic’s future music director suggests that he is an often agreeable maestro with a lot of work still to do.

We conductors in general delight in denigrating one another — that is, until one of us is dead. In other words, we are human.

The celebrated cellist capped a concert with the New York Philharmonic with a work that Pablo Casals often played to protest war and oppression.

On his first visit to the city since being named the New York Philharmonic’s next music director, he eagerly played the role of celebrity conductor.

“I’m not a young conductor anymore,” Dudamel said as he prepares to leave Los Angeles in 2026 to lead the New York Philharmonic.