Jonathan Sternberg (1919-2018) was an American conductor, active in Europe and the United States. He became associated with a wide repertory and with early recordings by major young artists.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Alfred Brendel’s early concerto recordings, including Mozart, Prokofiev and Schoenberg.

Sternberg’s conducting, as represented here, belongs to the precise work of framing difficult and varied concerto repertory while allowing a distinctive soloist to emerge.

His page is justified by secure identity and repertory context. Sternberg gives the early Brendel shelf a firm but unobtrusive podium line.