Haitink LSO Concert tonight...

[Petrushka]

I must catch this on iplayer, time permitting!! I have always loved this work. Probably the most popular of AB's symphonies and with a champion like Haitink at the helm, thenm this should be self reccomending!

Too late, BBM. It disappeared yesterday. Better hope it surfaces on LSO Live.

[amateur51]

Too late, BBM. It disappeared yesterday. Better hope it surfaces on LSO Live.

What a wonderful thought, Petrushka!

I wonder if we can hope that the Dame Mitsuko Uchida/Sir Colin Davis cycle and Davis's continuing Nielsen symphony cycle will appear on this label in due course too?

[BBMmk2]

Ah, what apity, indeed petrushka. Let's hope that LSO Live will produce a cd!!

[johnb]

I listened to the performance this afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed it.

From what I can see the same programme was performed on the 14th and the 16th of June so I would guess it is it very likely they well release a CD of the Bruckner, always providing that the concerts were recorded of course. (The LSO Live recordings are made from two live performances.)

[bluestateprommer]

The chair was there for him but he didn't need it.

I had mentioned this in another thread, but also in his recent Chicago Mahler 9, there was a high stool for Haitink to use, which he did only between the movements, as he conducted the music standing up, but used the chair to rest briefly between the movements. This had also perhaps the unintended effect of really focusing the audience when he was ready to launch on the next movement.

I did get to listen to the iPlayer archive of this LSO concert with MJP and BH in time. Good work all around, but I have to admit that I really cannot abide the Bruckner symphonies, even after years of trying, including hearing 7 of them live. However, with David Pyatt leading the charge from the horns and Haitink on the podium, Bruckner was in good hands, even if, as I said, his symphonies just don't do it for me.

[Alison]

I saw some pretty good reviews of the recent Chicago Ninth. It would be lovely to have a
new BH Ninth on CD and maybe the Chicago label will oblige. There was a theory going round that
some of the prinicipal horn playing from Dave Clavenger was sufficiently poor to make a CD release
well nigh out of the question.

Alas I didn't get to Thursdays Ravel/Mendelssohn (LSO/Haitink) programme which is a source of great regret.

[Petrushka]

There was a theory going round that some of the prinicipal horn playing from Dave Clavenger [sic] was sufficiently poor to make a CD release well nigh out of the question.

Odd, if so, as Dale Clevenger is one of the world's great orchestral principal horn players and seems to have been with the Chicago SO for ever.
Perhaps he had an off night?

[Alison]

I understand DG has had a difficult time in his personal life and his playing may have suffered as a result.

This is all stuff I have picked up from the american press. Even so the Chicagoans seem to give about four performances

of everything so just maybe there will be adequate material.

In an ideal world I'd still prefer a Royal Concertgebouw rendition.

[Roehre]

In an ideal world I'd still prefer a Royal Concertgebouw rendition.

As I would.

[Petrushka]

In an ideal world I'd still prefer a Royal Concertgebouw rendition.

Me too.

But I do have the live performance given by them last month safely stored on disc.

[BBMmk2]

I am envious, Petrushka!

[Petrushka]

I am envious, Petrushka!

BBM, I have it on a DVD RAM made on my Panasonic DVD recorder from the Netherlands Radio broadcast. If your equipment is compatible with this format I can send you a copy.

Please PM me.