Bernard Haitink (1929-2021)

[Petrushka]

Not a good sign that they don't take phone calls two days a week, including today:

https://www.prestomusic.com/contact

"Office hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday - 10am-4pm UK time"

Yes, I noticed that. I've started another thread regarding Presto in order to keep this one on topic:http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...e-had-problems

[Alison]

Suddenly noticed Amazon had nine Concertgebouw boxes in stock 10.30 last night and ordered 7.30am by which time only 2 were left. Delivery should be tomorrow though slightly concerned something will go wrong.
I hope Petrushka has his now :-)

Clearly selling like hotcakes.

[Petrushka]

Suddenly noticed Amazon had nine Concertgebouw boxes in stock 10.30 last night and ordered 7.30am by which time only 2 were left. Delivery should be tomorrow though slightly concerned something will go wrong.
I hope Petrushka has his now :-)

Clearly selling like hotcakes.

Yes, i got mine yesterday after a panicky week, perhaps due to my impatience following the saga of multiple postponements over five months.

Amazon had 14 in stock last night and those have clearly all disappeared as they are back to outsourcing from a seller again at £320.

Hope you get yours quickly. It's a very fine set and I'm surprised at the number of recordings I've not got rather than those I have. A couple of niggles, though. The book is a paperback rather than the hardback such as came with eg the Szell or Walter boxes. There's no ribbon to help you get it out of the box so a little care is needed.

Also, the CDs are housed in four separate internal boxes but facing different ways so you have to keep on turning it round to view the contents. I've rearranged them so that the discs are in two columns with discs 1-59 in the left hand column and discs 60-113 + DVDs in the right hand column. This makes it much easier to navigate and find the disc you want very quickly.

There are two recordings never previously issued: Brahms' St Antony Variations from 1984 and Chabrier's Espana. I remember our friend Roehre once mentioned that Haitink recorded a never issued performance of the Berg Three Orchestral Pieces but, if he did, there is no sign of it in this box.

[Alison]

Well done Pet! So where are you starting? I quite fancy the Brahms cycle. Then maybe DSCH 13 and 14.

This has to rate as the single most exciting purchase of all time.

Shame about Presto; you put your faith in them thinking you were supporting the smaller man.

[Petrushka]

Well done Pet! So where are you starting? I quite fancy the Brahms cycle. Then maybe DSCH 13 and 14.

This has to rate as the single most exciting purchase of all time.

Shame about Presto; you put your faith in them thinking you were supporting the smaller man.

I'm doing my usual thing of devising my own CD concerts from the box either using the same programme I heard Haitink give, or by using the RCO Concert Archive to use programmes he gave. Last night was of my devising entirely (Schubert Rosamunde Ov, LvB PC 3 with Arrau and, his first recording, the Dvorak 7) while tonight (Schubert 5, Mahler 4 (1983 recording) is an example of the former approach.

[Alison]

I'm doing my usual thing of devising my own CD concerts from the box either using the same programme I heard Haitink give, or by using the RCO Concert Archive to use programmes he gave. Last night was of my devising entirely (Schubert Rosamunde Ov, LvB PC 3 with Arrau and, his first recording, the Dvorak 7) while tonight (Schubert 5, Mahler 4 (1983 recording) is an example of the former approach.

Thanks Pet, some good ideas there. I’d rather forgotten about the concerto performances. I believe the first Haitink performance I ever heard was his first Pathetique from one of my dads LPs. So I will be intrigued to hear that again as well as the earlier Fourth.

[Petrushka]

Thanks Pet, some good ideas there. I’d rather forgotten about the concerto performances. I believe the first Haitink performance I ever heard was his first Pathetique from one of my dads LPs. So I will be intrigued to hear that again as well as the earlier Fourth.

I've never heard either of those, or the Mussorgsky Pictures.

[bluestateprommer]

One from the NPO Radio 4 archive, a December 1976 concert of Mozart and Mahler, with Haitink, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Teresa Zylis-Gara:

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/78dc5d3a-a0c0-4b16-9c1f-caa95474314e/mozart-en-mahler-in-de-middag