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Bernard Haitink documentary
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostNot in the mood to argue with any of that. I was pretty much transfixed. The thing is, why can I not seem to be able to find any form of video or even audio offering of the final Lucerne concert? Have I missed a trick, somewhere along the line?
No doubt you’re aware of the video of the Salzburg one.
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Originally posted by Alison View PostThe Lucerne concert was broadcast one afternoon in the winter.
No doubt you’re aware of the video of the Salzburg one.
Agree absolutely with your comments above, Alison. Thomas Allen's contribution was most illuminating. Haitink has always been rather reticent about the Nazi occupation years in Amsterdam and for a long time would not talk about what happened to his father so it was interesting to have more detail than I've previously heard from him"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostThe Lucerne concert was also broadcast live on Dutch Radio 4 which is where I caught it. The broadcast is still there but you will need to move forward about 30 minutes to catch the beginning of the concert: https://www.nporadio4.nl/4demiddag/u...jdagconcert-19
Agree absolutely with your comments above, Alison. Thomas Allen's contribution was most illuminating. Haitink has always been rather reticent about the Nazi occupation years in Amsterdam and for a long time would not talk about what happened to his father so it was interesting to have more detail than I've previously heard from him
While I could understand the emphasis being primarily on Bruckner 7, I would have liked to have heard something about his Shostakovich symphony recordings; he must have had real empathy with the deprivations Leningrad endured, for example. I think that Turnage, who also made a good contribution, was the only one to mention Shostakovich.
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostThe Lucerne concert was also broadcast live on Dutch Radio 4 which is where I caught it. The broadcast is still there but you will need to move forward about 30 minutes to catch the beginning of the concert: https://www.nporadio4.nl/4demiddag/u...jdagconcert-19
Agree absolutely with your comments above, Alison. Thomas Allen's contribution was most illuminating. Haitink has always been rather reticent about the Nazi occupation years in Amsterdam and for a long time would not talk about what happened to his father so it was interesting to have more detail than I've previously heard from himLast edited by Bryn; 28-09-20, 15:18. Reason: Removal of errant "been". Does that make me a been counter?
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostUseful as such listening facilities are, I was referring not to the availability of radio or television broadcast but the lack of availability on Blu-ray, DVD, CD or lossless download. I find it puzzling that such have not been, as yet, appeared.
Perhaps the Lucerne concert will eventually appear on CD.."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostSeconded.
While I could understand the emphasis being primarily on Bruckner 7, I would have liked to have heard something about his Shostakovich symphony recordings; he must have had real empathy with the deprivations Leningrad endured, for example. I think that Turnage, who also made a good contribution, was the only one to mention Shostakovich.
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Originally posted by LMcD View PostI don't think Elgar or Vaughan Williams were mentioned either, were they - a pity, perhaps, in view of his proven love of this country and his recordings of their symphonies."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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A revealing watch for me, for example, the insights into his troubled relationship with his homeland. My first CD bought in the same shop and at the same time as I bought my first CD player was his Mahler 4 with Concertgebouw and Elly Ameling, so for a short time it constituted my entire CD collection.
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Peter Quantrill has a very warmly appreciative review of this documentary at The Arts Desk:
Before his retirement last summer at the age of 90, Bernard Haitink worked magic on the podium, no one is in any doubt about that. Lining up one friend and musician after another to admit they don’t know how he does it hardly seems the most promising basis for a feature-length documentary. Yet John Bridcut’s film also works, rather like one of Haitink’s performances, by placing trust in his material and moulding its form with a nudge here, a pause there. The result, no less than his much admired portrait of Janet Baker, is worthy of its subject, and praise doesn’t come higher than that.
It does indeed sound a treat to watch, from all the comments here.
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Originally posted by bluestateprommer View PostPeter Quantrill has a very warmly appreciative review of this documentary at The Arts Desk:
Before his retirement last summer at the age of 90, Bernard Haitink worked magic on the podium, no one is in any doubt about that. Lining up one friend and musician after another to admit they don’t know how he does it hardly seems the most promising basis for a feature-length documentary. Yet John Bridcut’s film also works, rather like one of Haitink’s performances, by placing trust in his material and moulding its form with a nudge here, a pause there. The result, no less than his much admired portrait of Janet Baker, is worthy of its subject, and praise doesn’t come higher than that.
It does indeed sound a treat to watch, from all the comments here."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Alison View PostDoes anyone on here know the Cherubini Requiem?
However, you might be interested in this: https://pastdaily.com/2016/07/27/nic...ds-radio-1956/ It's a 1956 Holland Festival recording of Haitink conducting the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and presumably this was the performance that opened the door to his Concertgebouw debut, replacing an ailing Giulini, the following November. I've not listened to it so no idea of sound quality etc but recall it being on the Dutch Radio 4 website some time ago and I assume this is where the present recording came from."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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