Tonight, in tribute, I'm going to watch his DVD of Prokofiev's 'Lieutenant Kije' with The LSO with was part of a '...Music Night' that included the same composer's 3rd Piano Concerto with Martha Argerich as soloist. I'll be transported back to 1977 where I dangled a microphone from my Dad's little cassette recorder in front of the TV's speaker and captured those sounds whereupon I played the tape over and over again. Life would never be the same again...
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A very decent piece on the BBC news just now, starting with Hollywood, his first film score at 19 (for a Lassie film), his four Oscars, before going on to LSO....playing with Oscar Peterson....obviously covered private life, and yes that M&W clip which never fades.
Many great LSO concerts in the 1970s - I remember Scriabin concerto with Ashkenazy, Rodrigo with John Williams and Grieg with John Ogdon - what a concert that was, we were sitting (as I've recalled more than once) near Mia Farrow, whom Williams came and sat next to in the second half (I was an aspiring young guitarist at the time)...Last saw him conducting LSO in Cardiff in 2002.
An all-round great man.
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Great conductor without any question.
He signed the CD booklet of Turangalila for me
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Cleethorpes mourns the passing of ‘that bloke who were right funny in that Morecombe and Wise sketch.’
Seriously.....a great all-round musician. I never saw him conduct but I think he had an unblemished record of achievement in the studio.Comment
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Another great name has gone. I still think of him as a great jazz pianist. RIPComment
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I’m away from the stereo at the moment so watched -that- M&W sketch. It still cracks me up, and the big punch line still made me smile. I’ll listen to the music at the weekend.
What a polymath, what a legacy.SteveComment
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Profoundly saddened by this news, though given his age and frailty, perhaps not wholly unexpected.
Music Night came at just the right time for me when in the early 1970s I was beginning to explore the orchestral repertoire. It opened many doors.
I was extremely fortunate to have met Previn twice, post-concert, the first time following an unforgettable Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, on November 3 1977 (anyone else there?) with the vintage LSO line up on stage."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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I really envy you, Pet! One of my great musical regrets, (and, my goodness, there are many!), was that I never shook Andre Previn's hand and said 'Thank you' for getting me started in serious music.Originally posted by Petrushka View PostComment
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Sad to hear of this. I think the last time I saw him peform was in chamber music - maybe 8-9 years ago. He was starting to look quite frail then.
He made some great CDs - and a fair number of very good ones - particularly his Walton 1st symphony, and some of the VW symphonies, plus the Turangalila Symphony mentioned further up. I also have him in some jazz CDs.
Thank you for all that, AP.
AP RIP
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Yes a real end of an era moment . I have been thinking about all his recordings that introduced me to music I did not know - the VW 5 ,Walton 1 his Shostakovich 5,6 &8 , his recording of Turangalia is my favourite and he was indeed a superb conductor of concertos - with KWC,Ashkenazy,Mutter,Shaham and many more - his classic Gershwin EMI record as a pianist .Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostSad to hear of this. I think the last time I saw him peform was in chamber music - maybe 8-9 years ago. He was starting to look quite frail then.
He made some great CDs - and a fair number of very good ones - particularly his Walton 1st symphony, and some of the VW symphonies, plus the Turangalila Symphony mentioned further up. I also have him in some jazz CDs.
Thank you for all that, AP.
AP RIP
He has appeared very frail for some time - a great loss.Comment
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Very glad to have finally, and rather belatedly, got to see him. It was with the LSO at the Barbican in 2015. He was frail, had to be helped onto the platform and sat throughout but was very much in control of things. Anne-Sophie played his 40 min Violin Concerto from memory and after the interval we had Rachmaninov's Second. The evening certainly had the feeling of a special occasion.
Deciding what to play now, I think it will be the Gershwin/EMI mentioned by Barbs above. RIPComment
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Wonderful to read these moving tributes, which I most wholeheartedly endorse; a great musician who will be very much missed.Comment
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A wonderful musician. The recordings from his time with the LSO are particularly treasured, including arguably the finest recorded RVW Symphony Cycle from which I played the magnificent Sea Symphony recording today :-
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Yes, his RVW recordings are wonderful. Incredibly rare for a non-British conductor to champion RVW and I think his interpretations rank among the best.Originally posted by AmpH View PostA wonderful musician. The recordings from his time with the LSO are particularly treasured, including arguably the finest recorded RVW Symphony Cycle from which I played the magnificent Sea Symphony recording today :-
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Tonight, in just about 23 minutes from this posting, BBC Four will slot in, as a last-minute program(me) change, André Previn at the BBC:Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
Yes, per zola, it will include the Morecambe & Wise sketch with "Mr. Andrew Preview", but more as well.
More long-form tributes:
NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/o...evin-dead.html
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...revin-obituary (not wholly uncritical, but David Patrick Stearns had interviewed Previn several times over the years and got to know him well, it seemed)
Gramophone put on its website a March 2017 long-form by David Gutman: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classic...-the-age-of-89Comment
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