For those interested in listening to Mahler 9 from earlier this year with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Bernard Haitink, you can check out this link, through November 15:
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Many thanks for this, BSP. Good to have the Haydn as well as I cannot trace any BH recording of this composer who nevertheless appears frequently on his programmes.Originally posted by bluestateprommer View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink -
Good shout, BSP. Quite wonderful to hear the Haydn/Haitink combo. Matchless.
For Petrushka -
http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page...L3721+(43s.+9d.).Comment
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Just double-checked the discography in Simon Mundy's BH biography and see that these were recorded in Sept 1964!! I've often wondered why BH didn't record the Haydn 'London' symphonies with the Concertgebouw instead of Sir Colin. His Haydn and Mozart are far more worthy of recording for posterity than many another leading maestro (though I hasten to add that Sir Colin is supreme in the set we have).Originally posted by Alison View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Many thanks for the link, Haitink at his best.Comment
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You can hear nearly all (!) of Haitink's Mahler 9 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra recorded at a 1970 Prom here
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Mahler 4, Chicago SO/Haitink, audio stream available
Just in time for the holidays from across the Atlantic: Haitink's recent Chicago Mahler 4 is available from the CSO Radio broadcasts website, with soprano Klara Ek. Also featured are Schubert 5 from the same concert, and the intro "bonus track" of the Haydn Sinfonia concertante from a concert 2 years ago. Available through January 17, 2012:
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Many thanks for this, BSP. I stupidly forgot to record the Chicago/Haitink Mahler 9 (been kicking myself every day since) so will make amends by grabbing this one while I can.Originally posted by bluestateprommer View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Many thanks, bluestateprommer. I have just enjoyed (VERY MUCH) the Haydn Sinfonia Concertante and Schubert 5th Symphony that open the concert and will catch up with the Mahler in the next day or two. Utterly delightful.Originally posted by bluestateprommer View PostComment
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And Stephane Deneve's concert has become available today:
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For Petrushka & Chris N., glad to provide the link. Just as an FYI, the program of Schubert 5 and Mahler 4 from this past October was not the originally intended program. It was originally supposed to be the Berg Violin Concerto and Mahler 4, with Frank Peter Zimmermann as guest violinist. However, he bailed apparently because of illness, so Schubert 5 was substituted quickly. It proved to be my first live Schubert 5, so it was just as well. It'll be interesting to hear your takes on the concert, particularly the Mahler. I actually heard one of the performances in the hall that weekend, but I didn't want to bias your ears in advance with anything that I might have to say on it. The archived radio-cast still has the unfortunate too-short pauses between the symphony movements.Originally posted by Chris Newman View Post
Oh, and as an amusing aside, when I managed to get back stage to cadge an autograph from "Uncle Bernie" on another of his CD sets that I have, I did meet the soprano, Klara Ek, to give her my thanks. She said that she recognized me in the audience from her vantage point on the stage. I did notice that she was attentively scanning the crowd during the slow movement. (According to the Chicago Tribune review by John von Rhein, she apparently missed her cue to take her seat on stage between the scherzo and slow movement at the first performance, which evidently irked Haitink to no end. No such delay at the performance I saw. By contrast, Andrew Patner's review in the Sun-Times didn't mention that delay at all.)
Haitink conducted Haydn's The Creation the next week in Chicago, but it's curious that the Haydn hasn't made it to the archived CSO radio broadcast listings. At least not yet.Comment
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Beethoven, Chicago SO/Haitink available from CSO website
Diverging somewhat from the original Mahler 9 here, if you want to hear a radio broadcast sampler of the June 2010 Beethoven festival that concluded Uncle Bernie's principal conductorship of the Chicago Symphony, feel free to have a listen:
PS: "Bonus track", getting back to Mahler = http://youtu.be/IymHSxG2IwAComment
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Many thanks, bsp!Originally posted by bluestateprommer View PostDiverging somewhat from the original Mahler 9 here, if you want to hear a radio broadcast sampler of the June 2010 Beethoven festival that concluded Uncle Bernie's principal conductorship of the Chicago Symphony, feel free to have a listen:
PS: "Bonus track", getting back to Mahler = http://youtu.be/IymHSxG2IwA
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