Abbado Conducts Das Lied von der Erde

[HighlandDougie]

Profound thanks to FF and Bryn for the info. Jonas K singing as I type - and fingers crossed that France Telecom doesn't drop out

[Bryn]

I would be great if this performance turned up on TtN or Afternoon on 3.

[HighlandDougie]

I'll be very interested to know what others thought, not least in Der Abschied where Abbado's brisk-ish tempo at the end sounded almost perfunctory. A bit different to what I'm used to but that doesn't make it any less valid - I would greatly like to hear it again. Anne Sofie von Otter's singing was better than comments elsewhere had led me to believe - and the BPO's playing as wonderful as might be expected. Huge thanks again to FF and Bryn for pointing out the possibility of listening to this concert. My almost-favourite piece of music conducted by someone whom I admire hugely as a great musician - what a great way to celebrate the GM 100.

[bluestateprommer]

Berliner Zeitung review of Abbado/Mahler concert with the BPO

Saw this review from the Berliner Zeitung:

http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2011/0521/feuilleton/0026/index.html

Have fun feeding the text into Google Translator :) . From what I can tell, quite favorable, on the whole.

[Norfolk Born]

Abbado gets top marks from the reviewer for his 'Lied', but Thomas Hampson fares less well in the review of the other concert.

[Norfolk Born]

Interesting to learn that young Gilbert is the first New York-born principal conductor of the New York Phil.

[makropulos]

It would be even more interesting if it were true, Ofcachap. The very first conductor of the orchestra - Ureli Corelli Hill - was born in New York.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ureli_Corelli_Hill)

[Nick Armstrong]

It would be even more interesting if it were true, Ofcachap. The very first conductor of the orchestra - Ureli Corelli Hill - was born in New York.

Dry! Very dry!

[Norfolk Born]

It would be even more interesting if it were true, Ofcachap. The very first conductor of the orchestra - Ureli Corelli Hill - was born in New York.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ureli_Corelli_Hill)

EDIT:
After some 40 years as a practising linguist, I'm still happy to learn something new!
The Berliner Zeitung review uses the word 'Chefpult', which means 'podium'. When used in the phrase 'am Chefpult steht Herr Gilbert' , this means that Herr Gilbert is the orchestra's 'Director of Music'. It's possible that, in German eyes at least, Ureli Correlli Hill was a mere 'Dirigent' or 'conductor'. The IMG website describes Maestro Gilbert as 'the New York Philahrmonic's first New York-born Director of Music'.

[makropulos]

That's a very nice point, Ofcachap - I'm sure you're right that the paper was thinking in terms of Music Director rather than conductor.