Favourite Bernard Haitink recordings

[Paul N]

Is there a date given for the Janowitz performance as I'd like to take this off-air?

The date is given as 27 June 1968. Not sure it's one of my top favourites: Janowitz's (fast) vibrato is a bit intrusive, and Im Abendrot comes in at 5'26" - the intro is surely too fast?

(From the same set, I've just listened to Janowitz in Ein deutsches Requiem, with Karajan - sublime!)

[Bryn]

Somewhat OT, but the Kerstmatinees DVDs arrived a few minutes ago. Pity there is not 6 or 8, but this does give me yet more to occupy me over Yuletide. However, Dillon's Philomela arrived in the same post, so the Haitink has some pretty stiff competition when it comes to what gets spun first.

[Ah well, I went for the Mahler 7. What a shame they did not offer anything other than lossy codecs for the Audio. Why no LPCM 2 channel stereo option?]

[Alison]

Well done Nethersage, youve wanted that set for ages.

I agree, great shame about 6 and 8. I may spin a few over the season myself.

I wonder what happened to Julian Sorrell who first put me onto the DVD set ?

[Bryn]

He changed his moniker and is to be found as a regular at r3ok.com. Just think back to his interests and you will soon work it out.

[Alison]

Thanks Nethers. He had a style all of his own IIRC.

[Bryn]

By the way, I think you wild find it was "Julien Sorel".

[Alison]

Whatever next ?

Haitink conducts Purcell with the LSO, June 2012

http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=11846

[Tevot]

I saw Haitink back in 2009 with the Chicago Symphony performing Mahler 6. Everything was done "very slow..." ;-)
Regarding favourite recordings or ones certainly that made a formative impression on me - mention must be made of the Shostakovich series he did with Decca. I first got to know nos 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 and 15 by listening to those Haitink performances. I think the readings of 13 and 14 stand up pretty well - and I prefer the multi-lingual version of 14 as opposed to the original Russian. The CDs also had great couplings - the From Jewish Folk Poetry and 6 Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva for example.

Bws,

Tevot

[bluestateprommer]

Bernard Haitink master class, Lucerne

While somewhat off-topic, as this post isn't about Bernard Haitink recordings, I just saw this from the New York Times' ArtsBeat blog that some here might enjoy reading, regarding conducting master classes that BH is leading:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/lucerne-easter-festival-haitink-holds-up-a-mirror-for-promising-maestros/

[amateur51]

Many thanks for this bsp - not off-topic in the slightest

What a wonderful musician he obviously is .... *sigh*

[Bryn]

"If you quote from this message, Simon will be able to see it"

Fear not. I for one have no intention of quoting it.

[amateur51]

"If you quote from this message, Simon will be able to see it"

Fear not. I for one have no intention of quoting it.

Bless you

[Ferretfancy]

In HMV Oxford Street today I picked up the Haitink / LSO Live Brahms Symphonies for £4 a disc. OK, it's close up Barbican sound from 2003, but I look forward to hearing them. I have one special favourite, his first recording with the Concertgebouw of the Incidental Music to Rosamunde made in the early sixties. I don't think it has appeared on CD, the LP is magic.

[BBMmk2]

His Mahler and Bruckner recordings stand out for me. Also his Shostakovich to. Hmmm, indeed, where does one start? I also love his Philips Debussy set to!

[Alison]

Anyone familiar with Bernard's La Damnation de Faust ?

I have had to buy it and must give it a spin sometime.

Not a work I have ever taken to my heart. To be honest, it's another of those Berlioz works
I don't properly understand !