Kurt Sanderling - September 19, 1912 – September 17, 2011 - RIP

[Roslynmuse]

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/09/breaking-great-conductor-dies.html

This is the only obituary I've found so far.

[french frank]

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddi...ctor-dies.html


This is the only obituary I've found so far.

And Lebrecht, to do him credit , seems to have been the one to have followed the distinguished man's career http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrech...anderling.html

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sad news; Sanderling was a marvellous conductor: the mono LeningradPO Tchaikovsky #4 is particularly good.

[makropulos]

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddi...ctor-dies.html


This is the only obituary I've found so far.

Very sad - I've just been listening to his Bruckner 3 and Shostakovich 5 both included in the latest Concertgebouw box set (1990-2000) and his Lied von der Erde on DVD. A fine, fine conductor whose concerts with the BBC Northern (later Phil) were particularly memorable. I remember the reheasals for Heldenleben in the Free Trade Hall when I was a student - it was extraordinary the effect this mild-mannered but intensely musical conductor had on the orchestra.

RIP.

[mercia]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/18/kurt-sanderling-obituary?CMP=twt_fd

[Roehre]

Treasured memories of his Shostakovich 5 (live in Amsterdam), as well as Rachmaninov PC2 with Richter and Mahler 5 and 6, all Eastern German former Eterna (now Berlin Classics) recordings.

RIP a great musician.

[barber olly]

From my early memories of recorded music DGM 18327 Rachmaninov Sym 2 with the LenPO introduced me to this work which I grew to love and despite the subsequent movement picking by CFM and Breakfast the love affair continues 50+ years on. I think I may have been partly instrumental in its reissue on DG Originals with a letter to the company a few years ago but would not make it a definitive claim. However, the other LP which I have never seen again via Melodiya or elsewhere, was the same conductor and orchestra on a plain red cover of Rach's Sym 1 on the Artia label. Of all his recordings over a long career I cannot recall a bad one! RIP Kurt.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

How long is it since his retirement?

[Petrushka]

This is sad news. I never saw him, alas, but I do find his 1979 recording of Mahler 10 to be much the finest. Also on my shelves are Shostakovich 5 & 8 not played for many a year and worthy of dusting off and playing this week.

[hafod]

How long is it since his retirement?

According to the Guardian obituary he retired (finally) at 95 years of age so 3 years ago.

I bought the box set below around 6 years ago. It is a favourite set and a fitting memorial to a great conductor who for me never got in the way of the music.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kurt-Sanderling-Recordings-Hermann-Prey/dp/B00005Y3LA/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1316378730&sr=1-1

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

We seem now to have two threads on this conductor.

But thanks for the info, Hafod.

[Ventilhorn]

His passing is noted in The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/18/kurt-sanderling-obituary

I never saw him conduct live, but can imagine that MB'ers here have. Feel free to post remembrances about concerts (I guess recordings can count too).

Another of the great conductors of the 20th century has departed this world. A distinguished career world-wide.

I hope that the BBC will devise a programme next year to mark his centenary with a selection of great recordings that he left for us.

Kurt Sanderling. R.I.P

[Norfolk Born]

..2 days before his 99th birthday. RIP.

[mercia]

Mr Trelawney paid a short tribute on Breakfast this morning and played the finale of Shostakovich 6 from a 1979 recording with "an East German orchestra" .............. I think he said

[french frank]

Two threads now merged.