Prom 64 - 1.09.17: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Daniele Gatti

[Alison]

A pause after the first movement is normally needed for listener recovery but not tonight!

[pastoralguy]

A pause after the first movement is normally needed for listener recovery but not tonight!

Probably in a rush to get finished for the next Prom!

[Bryn]

What a pedestrian scherzo.

[pastoralguy]

What a pedestrian scherzo.

And lets try to get the down beats together...

[Alison]

You need snookers now Gatters.

[pastoralguy]

I'm sorry but, imho, this is a very second rate performance by Conductor, Orchestra and sound engineers.

[Alison]

The art of the laboured climax unerringly exposed.

[jonfan]

I'm sorry but, imho, this is a very second rate performance by Conductor, Orchestra and sound engineers.

I expected great things from these artists but great things are not happening. Some ragged ensemble, dodgy intonation from the winds in this orchestra of all things. Some phrases lurch out of no where. There's no sense of arriving anywhere. I'm listening in Concert Sound and even that sounds diffuse. That's been exemplary all season so it's hard to believe the fault lies with the sound engineers. They can only give us what's there.

[Bryn]

Not long now before we find we all got it wrong, and that it was truly magnificent performance in every respect.

With this being a visiting orchestra I was sort of hoping for a completion of the Finale as an encore. Now I most definitely don't want such.

[Alison]

Prommers sound happy enough bless 'em.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

With this being a visiting orchestra I was sort of hoping for a completion of the Finale as an encore.

[Maclintick]

Ploddingly monumental approach, lacking in direction & conviction, esp. compared with memorable accounts by VPO/Haitink & BBCSO/Wand in the same venue. A great orchestra on auto...flaccid in terms of phrasing, & occasionally tuning...

[DracoM]

Well, that has to be the most disappointing performance of Bruckner 9 I've heard in years, particularly from such a mighty and justly acclaimed band.
Pedestrian, mannered, halting, inexplicable. No drama, no theatre. So NOT the Concertgebouw one has heard and cherished.

Phew!

[Simon B]

At least it appears to have provided a rare moment of resplendent consensus on these here boards. It sounded kind of ok on a not entirely functional car radio whilst crawling along in the obligatory Friday M4 traffic apocalypse. As glowing reviews go, that isn't one.

[Nick Armstrong]

You need snookers now Gatters.