Simon Rattle and the new London concert hall...

[Alison]

where next for Alan? I reckon CBSO would be about right ...

[teamsaint]

The idea of Alan Gilbert succeeding Simon Rattle is laughable. It's about as likely as me being twice struck by lightning on my way to collect the lottery triple rollover jackpot accompanied by Lord Lucan and Elvis Presley.

i was thinking that recordings of Rouse symphonies 3 and 4 might be a more realistic hope from AG.


i think they send a taxi if you win the triple Rollover, BTW.

[Cockney Sparrow]

PM Programme on R4 . At about 5.38pm. Rattle was asked about the LSO job , acknowledged working with them a lot in next year, praised the musicians highly ("best musicians in the world spread out among the London Orchestras" (!!)). He alluded to the gruelling working regime in London compared with, well, anywhere else and by implication the effect on performance standards, and the lack of a great concert hall (Barbican .... "is..."(Pause)"....adequate" at best) and some comment (vis-a-vis the LSO job) that there would be matters, not least on the above subjects, that would need to be sorted out in the forthcoming (year??).
Then followed an interview with an acoustician.

[Petrushka]

PM Programme on R4 . At about 5.38pm. Rattle was asked about the LSO job , acknowledged working with them a lot in next year, praised the musicians highly ("best musicians in the world spread out among the London Orchestras" (!!)). He alluded to the gruelling working regime in London compared with, well, anywhere else and by implication the effect on performance standards, and the lack of a great concert hall (Barbican .... "is..."(Pause)"....adequate" at best) and some comment (vis-a-vis the LSO job) that there would be matters, not least on the above subjects, that would need to be sorted out in the forthcoming (year??).
Then followed an interview with an acoustician.

Is the work regime for London orchestras as gruelling as it was? In the good old, bad old days, concert programmes were given just once and rehearsals were usually in a different hall to where the concert was to take place. Surely, it's bit more relaxed nowadays? Just look at the BBC Symphony Orchestra's schedule for the Proms in the 1970s for a definition of gruelling!

[Nick Armstrong]

Short interview between SDR and the even more improbably-coiffured Will Gompertz on BBC TV News this evening, inc. quick rehearsal extracts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31431555

[Barbirollians]

where next for Alan? I reckon CBSO would be about right ...

If I were from Brum I would riot a major come down from Andris Nelssons

[Barbirollians]

I've just heard on Classic FM news that Alan Gilbert has stepped down as conductor of the New York Philharmonic and they linked his name as a possible replacement for Simon Rattle at the Berliner Philharmoniker. The most lacklustre performance of any concert I have heard was Alan Gilbert conducting the touring New York Philharmonic at the Philharmonie, Munich in 2011 playing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’. It’s only one performance I know but it was truly poor.

Surely it wasn't as bad as the Beethoven 9 he conducted at the Proms ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Short interview between SDR and the even more improbably-coiffured Will Gompertz on BBC TV News this evening, inc. quick rehearsal extracts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31431555

The "principle (sic) conductor", I see! Is this the same nterview that was broadcast on R4 that Cockney Sparrow refers to? The vocabulary is similar ("The Barbican is ... serviceable").

Has anybody asked Rattle why he's leaving the BPO?

[BBMmk2]

They don't seem to struck by him leaving?

[french frank]

In the meantime, while we're waiting, has anyone yet noted here the Wigmore début for Sir Si and MK, with SD 'on' piano?

[Beef Oven!]

In the meantime, while we're waiting, has anyone yet noted here the Wigmore début for Sir Si and MK, with SD 'on' piano?

Subsidised tickets for the under 35s? Can't they think of a more effective way of developing the audience (and less discriminatory)?

[french frank]

Subsidised tickets for the under 35s? Can't they think of a more effective way of developing the audience (and less discriminatory)?

Curiously enough, I emailed them earlier this morning to ask what reasons the BBC might have for not filming a recital (eg the Monday lunchtime one) - e.g. rights or something. Wigmore will be streaming some performances live soon, it seems.

[Zucchini]

where next for Alan? I reckon CBSO would be about right ...

Just a small problem - that at the NYPO he's been earning well over $1,000,000 pa (about £750k)

[french frank]

Just a small problem - that at the NYPO he's been earning well over $1,000,000 pa (about £750k)

And if he's going to commute ... :-)

[mercia]

they've just played a clip of Simon Denis implying that Paris has our nearest decent concert hall - does this mean that he doesn't rate Birmingham Symphony Hall or Bridgewater Hall either ?