The announcement of Andris Nelsons as Musical America's Artist of the Year for
2018 confirmed the arrival of the Latvian as one of the world's most exciting
and highly rated conductors during a meteoric rise that had already seen him
become music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig
Gewandhaus Orchestra. His dramatic and innovative performances proved equally
popular with critics and concert audiences, resulting in dozens of successful
recordings involving a wide range of composers from Mozart and Mahler to Bizet,
Wagner and Richard Strauss, with concert perf...