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Selected first wave of online articles and tributes:
1. Radio 4 Netherlands
2. Trouw
3. Gramophone (with an earlier article placed down page)
4. New York Times
5. Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Given the time of day of the Askonas Holt announcement, it's understandable that it will take time for more tributes to Haitink to appear from the Concertgebouw Orchestra and other outlets. One would guess that Petroc will have a tribute to Haitink during his Breakfast show in a few hours.
In the recent October 3 Wigmore Hall concert with Camerata RCO, Hannah French mentioned that Bernard Haitink may have been in the audience for that concert. One wonders if that was his final experience of live music. Condolences to his family.Comment
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Oh dear, such very sad news to wake up to.
Not too easy to write anything just now.Comment
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Such sad news.
RIP, Mr. Haitink. Thank you for the wonderful memories.Comment
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I always got the impression that he was the most beloved musician on this forum - and rightly so.Comment
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Lovely to hear part of his very first Bruckner 7 on Breakfast.Comment
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Wasn’t it just. RIPOriginally posted by Alison View PostDon’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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I’ve probably attended more performances conducted by him than any other. He brought such humanity to, and always served the music. These memories will always remain. RIP.Comment
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A principled man who, as Belgrove says always served the music, and has left us such a wonderful legacy in his work - both physical as in recordings, tenure of orchestras and support of musicians, and emotional as in memories of concerts attended or heard.
This is an old article, but still a good read. Haitink's comments about loud Mahler I remember him voicing in the TV documentary that was shown earlier this year - and which I hope will now be repeated.
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This is distressingly sad but inevitable news. Haitink was part of my musical life more or less from the very beginning and I can remember first coming across his name in 1971 when the Mahler bug began to bite and I caught a Prom performance of the Mahler 3 via Radio 3. I remember vividly the day I bought his recording of the Mahler 1, February 16 1973, my very first Haitink and Mahler record in a wonderfully memorable gatefold LP illustrated with photographs taken from the BBC documentary about the Concertgebouw Orchestra broadcast that same week.
As an impecunious student and then new employee, I had to wait until March 1978 to see Haitink for the first time, in concerts with the LPO on consecutive evenings in Manchester and Derby. My first Haitink Prom followed in the August of that same year, an incandescent Mahler 2, again with the LPO.
I never looked back after that and attended as many Haitink concerts as money and a working life would allow. There were many, many of them but if anyone were to ask me which were the most memorable of them all, I'd go back to two performances at the Proms with the Concertgebouw in 1983: Mozart 35 and Bruckner 9, and Wagner Siegfried Idyll and Shostakovich 8. Both utterly unforgettable.
And that Bruckner 7 with the Vienna Philharmonic two years ago! It was the end of an era, a cliche so often wheeled out, but it truly was so. Haitink's music making, both live and on record over so many years, must have transformed so many lives for the better and I'm glad, with deep gratitude, to be counted among them.
RIP Bernard Haitink"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Oh Pet, that’s a lovely tribute.Comment
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Spot on.
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