Sir Jeffrey Tate (1943-2017) RIP

[Barbirollians]

Lovely interview wasn't it ?

[Cockney Sparrow]

Yes - he also talked about the scarcity of opportunities to record opera, and posited the way forward was for opera houses to do it (I must listen again and check when the interview was first broadcast).

I think he conducted at least one opera performance I attended - but I'd have to check. I saw him, close up - on a country house visit (guided tour) in the Scottish Borders in 2016. He seemed well and as affable as came over in the interview.

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes - he also talked about the scarcity of opportunities to record opera, and posited the way forward was for opera houses to do it (I must listen again and check when the interview was first broadcast).

I think he conducted at least one opera performance I attended - but I'd have to check. I saw him, close up - on a country house visit (guided tour) in the Scottish Borders in 2016. He seemed well and as affable as came over in the interview.

It was in 2004, CS.

Yes, interesting interview indeed. I shall feel forever indebted to JT for the wonderful Ariadne auf Naxos he conducted at Covent Garden in the 80s (Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, and the dazzling Klimt-ian coup de théâtre at the climax) which so got to me I went 3 times... I wish he had been able to record Capriccio, as mentioned in the interview.

Never took to his Mozart; but I love his Schubert Great C Major with the Dresden Staatskapelle...

RIP

[Steerpike]

I was in Turin last week so had booked for the RAI concert. I thought forumistas might like to know how Jeffrey Tate’s death was marked. They clearly thought much of him there. There was a large bouquet of white lilies below the conductor’s podium and before Vilde Frang and the conductor (Gergely Madaras) entered, the orchestra’s manager (I imagine) gave a short speech (my Italian wasn’t up to following it). Orchestra and audience then stood for a minute’s silence. I was very impressed by the fact that it was a total and utterly still silence, followed, when we sat, by warm applause. During the applause at the end of the concert the conductor gestured towards the bouquet.

I was disappointed at first that the Elgar concerto was replaced by the Beethoven. But in the event I felt it was the most involving performance I’ve heard live since I heard Oistrakh. Frang was a joy and the others were right with her. A real event. The Mendelssohn Scottish wasn’t to my taste, played more as a series of four very romantic tone poems than a symphony to my ears. I missed Tate.

Steerpike

[pastoralguy]

I was in Turin last week so had booked for the RAI concert. I thought forumistas might like to know how Jeffrey Tate’s death was marked. They clearly thought much of him there. There was a large bouquet of white lilies below the conductor’s podium and before Vilde Frang and the conductor (Gergely Madaras) entered, the orchestra’s manager (I imagine) gave a short speech (my Italian wasn’t up to following it). Orchestra and audience then stood for a minute’s silence. I was very impressed by the fact that it was a total and utterly still silence, followed, when we sat, by warm applause. During the applause at the end of the concert the conductor gestured towards the bouquet.

I was disappointed at first that the Elgar concerto was replaced by the Beethoven. But in the event I felt it was the most involving performance I’ve heard live since I heard Oistrakh. Frang was a joy and the others were right with her. A real event. The Mendelssohn Scottish wasn’t to my taste, played more as a series of four very romantic tone poems than a symphony to my ears. I missed Tate.

Steerpike

Many thanks for that, steerpike. An interesting commentary.

[Barbirollians]

I was in Turin last week so had booked for the RAI concert. I thought forumistas might like to know how Jeffrey Tate’s death was marked. They clearly thought much of him there. There was a large bouquet of white lilies below the conductor’s podium and before Vilde Frang and the conductor (Gergely Madaras) entered, the orchestra’s manager (I imagine) gave a short speech (my Italian wasn’t up to following it). Orchestra and audience then stood for a minute’s silence. I was very impressed by the fact that it was a total and utterly still silence, followed, when we sat, by warm applause. During the applause at the end of the concert the conductor gestured towards the bouquet.


I was disappointed at first that the Elgar concerto was replaced by the Beethoven. But in the event I felt it was the most involving performance I’ve heard live since I heard Oistrakh. Frang was a joy and the others were right with her. A real event. The Mendelssohn Scottish wasn’t to my taste, played more as a series of four very romantic tone poems than a symphony to my ears. I missed Tate.

Steerpike

Vilde Frang is down to play the Elgar with the CBSO and MGT in November ! She is an extraordinary talent I imagine that Tate and her would have been marvellous in the Elgar.

[seabright]

'CRQ Editions' Summer releases include an 'In Memoriam' CD in which Tate conducts Rossini, Britten and Brahms from three Italian radio broadcasts. It was in Italy where he died and he seems to have conducted more concerts abroad than here in the UK, at any rate in his later years.

http://crqeditions.co.uk/