Worst-run orchestra makes BBC Proms debut
mainWe have regaled you for several years with the comic maladministration of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, a Geneva ensemble that achieved world fame under Ernst Ansermet and subsequently subsided into provincialism.
Latest reports from Geneva suggest that the company may be undergoing a slow recovery in the hands of the partner of a talented young conductor. One sign of its revival is a spot at the BBC Proms in the orchestra’s centenary year.
Other visiting orchestras include the Berlin Philharmonic with Kirill Petrenko – whom Proms bosses turned down just three years ago – Rotterdam with Yannick, Musica Aeterna with Currentzis, Minnesota with Vanska, Paavo Järvi’s Estonian Festival Orchestra, along with Boston, Baltimore, Bergen and Budapest.
Full programme now online.
Hard to believe that this orchestra of such historical significance never debuted at the Proms…
They should be called the ‘Poms”!!!
“Other visiting orchestras include the Berlin Philharmonic with Kirill Petrenko – whom Proms bosses turned down just three years ago” . . . umm, not exactly. The Munich Opera orchestra was turned down, NOT the Berlin Philharmonic.