- Introduction: The Making of a Myth
- The Tears of a Clown: The composer as conductor; the personal tragedy of Hans von Bülow
- Honest Hans and the Magician: Nikisch and Richter
- Masters of the House: Mahler and Strauss; Walter, Klemperer and Krauss
- Facing the Dictators: Toscanini v. Furtwängler; Szell, Reiner and the Soviet system
- The Karajan Case: Karajan, Knappertsbusch and Böhm
- ‘A Starving Population and an Absentee Aristocracy’: Koussevitsky to Ozawa; Stokowski, showbiz and Previn
- The Gremlin in the Garden: Beecham v Barbirolli; Kubelik; Solti; Colin Davis and Haitink
- Collapse of the Conducting Composer: Bernstein and Boulez
- Strange Tales from the Vienna Woods: Bernstein, Maazel and Levine
- Formula Uno: Abbado, Muti and Sinopoli, Chailly
- The Mavericks: Horenstein, Celibidache, two Kleibers and Tennstedt
- Insider Dealing: Mehta, Barenboim and the Kosher nostra
- Left Outside: Gays, women, blacks
- The Search for a Semi-Conductor: Marriner, Munrow, Hogwood and early music
- Where Have All the Conductors Gone?: The bare future – Rattle, Salonen and Welser-Möst
- The Master of Them All?: Ronald Wilford and the millionaire conductor
- Appendix: Conductors and their careers
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