Gergiev is called out in Munich for non-rehearsal
mainA review in the Abendzeitung attacks the music director for his cursory rehearsal practices. The performance of Beethoven’s Eroica was, writes Robert Braunmüller, ‘casually improvised’. Textures were cloudy, ensemble flawed. The Munich Philharmonic sounded shoddy.
Gergiev’s pianist, his pal Denis Matsuev, received a similar drubbing.
Gergiev’s rehearsal absences are well attested, but in all his years with the LSO I don’t remember London critics calling him out so frankly.
Read here.
Not drowning but waving.
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