Mahler Symphony no.7/Philharmonia/Gustavo Dudamel/RFH/live/R3/14 Nov 2013/19:30hrs

[Mahler's3rd]

Hi Amateur 51, I reckon you might be right, I've seen Dudamel conduct Mahler 3 times now, The 9th LAPhil at The Barbican (Superb), The 2nd with The Simon Bolivar at The Proms which was sublime and Thursday evening, i think despite some negativity around the "Whole Dude Hype Thing", he really is the real deal, all three performance's I've mentinoned he conducted without a score!

[amateur51]

Hi Amateur 51, I reckon you might be right, I've seen Dudamel conduct Mahler 3 times now, The 9th LAPhil at The Barbican (Superb), The 2nd with The Simon Bolivar at The Proms which was sublime and Thursday evening, i think despite some negativity around the "Whole Dude Hype Thing", he really is the real deal, all three performance's I've mentinoned he conducted without a score!

I'm hoping that the arrival of Sir Simon Rattle at the LSO will mean that Dudamel is a more regular visitor to London as a guest conductor, Mahler's3rd.

[Nick Armstrong]

Hi Amateur 51, I reckon you might be right, I've seen Dudamel conduct Mahler 3 times now, The 9th LAPhil at The Barbican (Superb), The 2nd with The Simon Bolivar at The Proms which was sublime and Thursday evening, i think despite some negativity around the "Whole Dude Hype Thing", he really is the real deal, all three performance's I've mentinoned he conducted without a score!

à l'Abbado... (His stick technique reminds me very much of Abbado, too)

I've never forgotten a friend who's a lifelong devotee of Bartok's 'Concerto for Orchestra', emerging from the concert where the Bolivar youngsters played the piece under GD, and saying it was the ideal performance he'd always heard in his head but never encountered in real life. It was stunning.

[amateur51]

à l'Abbado... (His stick technique reminds me very much of Abbado, too)

I've never forgotten a friend who's a lifelong devotee of Bartok's 'Concerto for Orchestra', emerging from the concert where the Bolivar youngsters played the piece under GD, and saying it was the ideal performance he'd always heard in his heard but never encountered in real life. It was stunning.

Diego Matheuz, another El Sistema graduate conductor, holds his baton and left hand in a very close approximation to modern-day Abbado. It came as quite a surprise!