• New Exciting Conductors

    From Herman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 9 11:26:37 2024
    We're talking here about Blomstedt, Haitink, Karajan, and that's fine.
    However surely there are exciting under age 50 conductors we like.

    Be my guest...

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  • From Herman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 9 14:31:35 2024
    In light of this topic I woud say I tend to check out Pablo Heras Casado whenever he pops up on youtube.

    I love watching Santtu Rouvali, even though his repertoire is a little
    meh.


    Dima Slobendiouk, formerly of the Sinfonia de Galicia, is just under
    fifty. He accomplished the rare feat of performing a set of perfect
    Mozart symphonies.

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  • From Herman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 9 17:17:07 2024
    The way I heard Chailly, he is mainly into modernist music. Or was. He
    may have changed by now.

    There is a Chailly Stravinsky box, eleven CDs in all, of which I have
    about six in single issues. Chailly's is the best of today's Stravinsky
    on CD, together with the Salonen set with the London Philharmonic on
    Sony.

    I also have the double CD with Hindemith Kammermusiken. Terrific.

    The Concertgebouw reverb was not a good fit for Chailly.

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  • From Herman@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 10 06:16:43 2024
    Gerard: "He has changed, or so.
    Maybe I have the same Stravinsky (around 6 discs too, anyhow not 11) and certainly the same Hindemith recordings.
    Re the modernistic he did a lot,mostly Stravinsky, but he was never a completist. He did not much with Prokofiev; a little more Varèse,
    Schoenberg, Messiaen, Zemlinsky, Janacek, Ravel, Schnittke."

    Times have changed. Record companies aren't too eager to make that kind
    of recordings anymore, and concert halls aren't programming those
    composers anymore.

    Like I said: Stravinsky should have had the stature of a Beethoven by
    now; however he's hardly ever programmed.

    In Amsterdam, Mariss Janssons started this Classic FM repertoire shrink. Chailly's coming to conduct Bruckner 9 this fall.

    I remember getting Chailly's double CD with Schumann symphonies in
    Mahler's orchestration, but I just didn't get the point of making these recordings,.

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