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Dutch conductor and violinist (1929-2021)
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2024-03-04 11:00:27
Born on this day in 1929 conductor Bernard Haitink
2024-01-11 10:54:00
Jenůfa, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 7 January 2024
[…] one to see, as in a small rural community, most of what is going on, whilst still maintaining some degree of secrecy. This is a world of violence and poverty, and so it feels, whilst avoiding undue specificity: the level of abstraction is such that the message need not be restricted to any one milieu. That enables a degree of symbolism, perhaps not entirely unlike Olivier Tambosi’s 2001 Covent Garden production (my first, with Bernard Haitink and Karita Mattila no less). Ice/water is central to Michieletto’s conception. There is something icy to the walls, but more fundamentally, not unlike Tambosi’s giant boulder, although the other way up, an iceberg descends from the ceiling or sky. It hems in the action to varying extents, according (I assume) to the emotional and broader dramatic temperature. Števa hacks a block of ice to pieces, with violence shocking both in itself and […]
2023-12-22 15:09:44
LEBRECHT LISTENS | There’s No Better Entry To Bruckner Than Bernard Haitink’s Symphony 7
At the risk of provoking premature exasperation, I’m about to start the Bruckner bicentennial year a few days early with Bernard Haitink's Symphony 7.
2023-12-06 12:00:00
Gerald Fenech urges you not to miss Haitink's recordings of Bruckner's Te Deum and Eighth Symphony. 'Awesome in every way.'
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