New England Jarvis Beethoven 6

[richardfinegold]

Well, we are off to hear Jarvis conduct the Pastoral, Arvo Part Fratres, and Bartok VC #1, CM Robert Chen Soloing. Don't think I know the Bartok. Thursday concert got a terrible review in the Chicago Tribune.

[BBMmk2]

You don't know the Bartok. RFG? You will be very surprised!

[Cockney Sparrow]

So that is Neeme Jarvi - never heard him live. He has a very large discography, some of which are highly praised. Never heard him live. How was it?

(I rate Paavo Jarvi, which is why I checked).

[richardfinegold]

So that is Neeme Jarvi - never heard him live. He has a very large discography, some of which are highly praised. Never heard him live. How was it?

(I rate Paavo Jarvi, which is why I checked).

I love this predictive spelling thing. I had written Neeme and it came out New England
The Beethoven was the highlight of course and sends everyone off with a smile. It has been a while since I have heard this live and one revels in all the wonderful details, such as the flute/Clarinet cuckoo episode at the end of II, the double basses announcing the storm in the distance, and the timpani thwacks which awokened the elderly women next to me . Jaarvi was slow and deliberate with his pacing but the piece is conductor proof.
I suppose that the rehearsal time was allocated to the Bartok and the Part work, both of which featured CSO CM Robert Chen. Chen has a small but very focused tone. Fratres was a pleaser, with Violin soaring in octaves above the Orchestra which plays ostinato most of the time. The Bartok was a bit of a revelation. The Second and final movement of that piece is not as strong as I, which sounds somewhat Debuss like to me although the program notes site Richard Strauss. Neither movement sounds like the mature Bartok

[pastoralguy]

So that is Neeme Jarvi - never heard him live. He has a very large discography, some of which are highly praised. Never heard him live. How was it?

(I rate Paavo Jarvi, which is why I checked).

Neemi Jarvi made his reputation in the 80's when he was very active with the (R)SNO. For those of us who attended his concerts he was a real breath of fresh air. He galvanised both audience and orchestra and produced concerts that were real events. After he left his native Estonia, the authorities destroyed all his recordings so he took advantage of the SNO's phenomenal sight reading abilities to record as much as possible.

He was offered huge sums of money to go to the Detroit Symphony but, alas, his career never really hit the heights he had hit in Scotland. (Audiences and critics felt a little bit disgruntled since he did rather leave the orchestra high and dry).

He's still revered in Scotland from those of us from a certain generation but he cancelled his recent birthday concert with the RSNO. Glad to hear he's recovered.

[richardfinegold]

Neemi Jarvi made his reputation in the 80's when he was very active with the (R)SNO. For those of us who attended his concerts he was a real breath of fresh air. He galvanised both audience and orchestra and produced concerts that were real events. After he left his native Estonia, the authorities destroyed all his recordings so he took advantage of the SNO's phenomenal sight reading abilities to record as much as possible.

He was offered huge sums of money to go to the Detroit Symphony but, alas, his career never really hit the heights he had hit in Scotland. (Audiences and critics felt a little bit disgruntled since he did rather leave the orchestra high and dry).

He's still revered in Scotland from those of us from a certain generation but he cancelled his recent birthday concert with the RSNO. Glad to hear he's recovered.

I'm from Detroit and have actively followed the Orchestra since I moved to Chicago. Jaarvi is still pretty well regarded there. I think most people realize that the struggle to maintain the DSO entails many factors that are out of the ontrol of any one individual. With time come reflection and his tenure is now regarded as a Golden Era