Two music directors play in Barenboim’s orchestra
mainAmong the musicians who turned out for Daniel Barenboim’s Berlin performance of Schoenberg’s Kammersymphonie, Boulez Mémoriale, Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, our mole spotted Domingo Hindoyan in the violins and Lahav Shani among the double basses.
Hindoyan is the new music director at e Royal LiverpoolPhilharmonic; Shani is chief of the Israel Phil and Rotterdam Phil.
I was also expecting a special appearance by John Borstlap in the Boulez Memoriale!
There are two chamber symphonies by Schoenberg. Presumably the first ?
I had a disguise, to protect my reputation. Don’t tell anybody.
Rather inappropriate for highly-paid maestros to mix with impoverished freelancers, flouting their wealth in a show of total unabashed arrogance. Shame.
Agreed. We need to cancel all jet-setting maestros. This business is far too patriarchal and overt in its frivolous displays of unearned riches.
I wouldn’t exactly call the members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra „impoverished freelancers“ and while I don’t much care for either of the two, Shani and Hindoyan have played in the WEDO before (Hindoyan for 14 or 15 years now).
The same concert program was performed and recorded at the Salzburger Festspiele yesterday and can be viewed for free on ARTE for 90 days (along with the rest of the festival’s concerts)…
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/097903-000-A/daniel-barenboim-dirigiert-das-west-eastern-divan-orchestra/
…and they both are very bad conductors !
Shani is a bass player? Mehta was. What are the odds there!
The most illustrious conductor-bass player was Serge Koussevitzky, who had been principal of the Bolshoi and who wrote a concerto for bass that was recorded by Gary Karr.
Schönberg: Kammersinfonie Nr. 1 or 2….?
No. 1. The same that was played at the Proms in 2015, before the Beethoven Triple Concerto. And the Boulez Memoriale was played at the Proms as well, in 2012, when Barenboim tried to pair the Beethoven symphonies with Boulez pieces.
…and in Saltzburg, Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra player and soloist
Domingo Hindoyan joins the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra as Chief Conductor in September 2021.