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I hope it doesn't dampen enthusiasm too much. 
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Oops! Hadn't noticed that. Now corrected."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink -
I’m expecting a good CD concert from you tonight Pet!Originally posted by Petrushka View PostComment
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Not a CD tonight, Alison, but this:Originally posted by Alison View Post
Mozart: Symphony No 41
Bruckner: Symphony No 7
Staatskapelle Dresden
Bernard Haitink
Given at the 2004 Proms at which I was, naturally, in the hall.
I've got many Haitink Bruckner 7's including a VPO concert from Tokyo in 1997 on youTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiJH18Dmbu4 The Schoenberg 5 Orchestral Pieces from the first half is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-axba7wwfw"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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You should sample his Bruckner on BR Klassic. Fabulous.Originally posted by Alison View PostDon’t cry for me
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I was there for that one too. As was Yannick Nezet-Seguin, who was in the audience as a student. He mentioned it when he was at the Proms with the Rotterdam Philharmonic. It's hard to think of Haitink as retired but I hope he understands how much he has meant to people over the years.Originally posted by Petrushka View PostComment
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That was a fine Jupiter as I recall. Sir Bernard is a fine Mozartian IMHO.Comment
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Indeed he is and it's a great shame that he has recorded nothing of the symphonies or piano concertos. On CD, there is a live 'Prague' with the Dresden Staatskapelle and Piano Concertos 24 and 27 both taken from live radio broadcasts {and both with Curzon). The situation with Haydn, of whom he is also a fine exponent, is little better with just a couple of symphonies recorded in the early 1960s and a BRSO Creation. More Mozart and Haydn can be found on youTube and I have more still in off air recordings. Generally, though, it's a disappointing situation.Originally posted by Alison View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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The Boston Symphony has a live Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 with Haitink and Emanuel Ax, from the 1996 Tanglewood Festival, from their recent archive series:Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
There's also a Schubert 3 from 1992 at Symphony Hall.
I searched in the Concertgebouw Orchestra's concert archive for Haitink's concerts with Mozart, and 362 hits come up over a period of just more than 61 years.Comment
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The DVD/Blu-ray of the VPO/Haitink performance of the Beethoven PC4 and Bruckner 7 at Salzburg is out on August 14.
"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Perhaps this is old news to the Forum, but the Berlin Philharmonic has a new direct-to-disc vinyl album of Haitink's Bruckner 7 with them, from his last concert with them in May 2019:
"And so it is particularly fortunate that this last joint concert of the Berliner Philharmoniker with Bernard Haitink was documented in a direct-to-disc recording. Direct-to-disc represents the ultimate in analogue recording quality. Without any further processing, the sound is cut directly into a master disc at the moment of performance – the basis for a vinyl release of unique sonic authenticity. This complex, end-to-end analogue process is hardly used any more in today's digital age. Another special feature in the case of this release is the puristic [sic] recording with only one stereo pair of microphones. In this way it was possible to achieve a sound image that is extraordinarily close to the original acoustics of the Philharmonie. The result is a high-quality, limited vinyl edition."Comment
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It looks a lovingly produced box and I'm sure it will be a collectors item...but I just wonder who it is aimed at. Around the equivalent of £179.25 (or $223.78) it's a bizarre price and issue for yesterday's outmoded technology. I'll wait for a normal CD issue or take the performance off the BPO Digital Concert Hall.Originally posted by bluestateprommer View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Given that Bernie’s final performance with the Wiener Philharmoniker (also Bruckner 7), is being released on Blu-ray with the addition of Beethoven’s 4th piano concerto with Emmanuel Ax for the much more reasonable price of £25, I know which one I’ll be getting.Originally posted by Petrushka View Post"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
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Did they manage to get the first two movements on one side or is it 2 LPs like the 1st issue of his CAO recording in the late 60s?Originally posted by Petrushka View PostComment
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Difficult to tell from the publicity material (see bsp's link) but it looks to me as if it's one disc.Originally posted by cloughie View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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It’s 2 LPs on 180g vinyl, and according to the blurb, won’t be released in any other format.Originally posted by Petrushka View Post"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
Lady Bracknell The importance of Being EarnestComment
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