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German conductor (1902-1987)
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2023-08-25 06:00:03
Royal Concertgebouw O / Haitink/ Chailly/ Jansons/ Jochum/ Sanderling/ Tennstedt/ Mehta(RCO Live, nine CDs)In advance of Bruckner’s bicentenary, a roll call of tremendous historic interpretations is a timely reminder of this orchestra’s superb playingThe bicentenary of the birth of
2023-03-01 09:26:00
Breaking news - BBC Radio 3 does something right
[…] several Dutch composers whose music is overlooked simply because it fails the box ticking test. Recently I highlighted the work of the sadly departed Wim Henderickx, and over the years the music of Lex van Delden (1919-1988) has been highlighted here. Lex van Delden's music first came to my attention in the 1970s through a performance by Bernard Haitink and the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Other notable conductors who programmed his music were George Szell and Eugen Jochum. As I write Lex van Delden's Sinfonia No.3 'Facets' plays in the Etcetra recording by Haitink and the Concertgebouw, and it is very fine music indeed which just cries out to be heard. Here we have yet another richly talented composer condemned to box ticking obscurity, so kudos to Radio 3 for bringing his music to a wide audience. For readers who want to venture even further from today's social media-driven classical mundanity, I recommend […]
2022-07-25 05:26:00
Brahms: Symphonies 3 & 4 (CD review)
Herbert Blomstedt, Gewandhausorchester. Pentatone PTC 5186 852.By John J. PuccioWhen I first got to know the talents of Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt (b. 1927), it was during his tenure as Music Director of my local big band, the San Francisco Symphony, from 1985 to 1995. My wife and I attended a number of his performances, and I always thought of him as a good, sturdy conductor. He never seemed splashy or flamboyant, just musically solid, so I sort of characterized him in the class of a Karl Bohm, Eugene Jochum, Adrian Boult, Eugene Ormandy, or Bernard Haitink. Friends of mine would sometimes say he was too “foursquare,” too “old fashioned,” or too much the “kapellmeister” in a derogatory sense. It’s true, he never displayed the celebrated idiosyncrasies that defined some other famous conductors like Stokowski, Bernstein, Karajan, or Klemperer, but he made up for it in concerts of simple, elegant taste.Whatever, […]
2022-07-11 05:17:00
Brahms: Symphonies 3 & 4 (CD review)
Herbert Blomstedt, Gewandhausorchester. Pentatone PTC 5186 852.By John J. PuccioWhen I first got to know the talents of Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt (b. 1927), it was during his tenure as Music Director of my local big band, the San Francisco Symphony, from 1985-1995. My wife and I attended a number of his performances, and I always thought of him as a good, sturdy conductor. He never seemed splashy or flamboyant, just musically solid, so I sort of characterized him in the class of a Karl Bohm, Eugene Jochum, Adrian Boult, Eugene Ormandy, or Bernard Haitink. Friends of mine would sometimes say he was too “foursquare,” too “old fashioned,” or too much the “kapellmeister” in a derogatory sense. It’s true, he never displayed the celebrated idiosyncrasies that defined some other famous conductors like Stokowski, Bernstein, Karajan, or Klemperer, but he made up for it in concerts of simple, elegant directness.Whatever, Blomstedt seems […]
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