Daniele Gatti profits from Gergiev’s dismissal

Daniele Gatti profits from Gergiev’s dismissal

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norman lebrecht

March 18, 2022

The controversial Italian conductor has jumped in for Valery Gergiev’s Munich, Hamburg and Paris concerts in May.

He will perform Mozart 29 and Shostakovich 5 in one programme, Bruch violin concerto and Bruckner 9 in the other.

Gatti is presently music director in Florence.

The Munich Philharmonic is finding no difficulty replacing the politically compromised Russian conductor. The test will be how the summer festivals will manage without their central dependence on his Mariinsky travelling circus.

 

 

Comments

  • Petros Linardos says:

    A persona non grata being replacing by another.

  • Salminen says:

    Why controversial? He has been cleared…. Be objective please

  • Chicagorat says:

    When I read the first three words of this article, my head instinctively went somewhere else.

  • Paul Johnson says:

    Swap a Putinist for a sexual predator? Boy oh boy.

    • John Borstlap says:

      Gatti was not exactly a ‘sexual predator’. He had looked around in Amsterdam and concluded that local customs were the same as in Italy, unaware that the Concertgebouw forms an island of decency in a pool of animal instincts – to make orchestral concerts at all possible.

    • Liam Allan-Dalgleish says:

      Mr Johnson’s comment typifies why we should bring back the serious study of words, their meanings, and their usage. “Sexual predator?” What meaneth that? Since the advent of Trump and the reaction to Trump, sexual predator has come to mean anything—literally anything—having the slightest connection to ( usually) heterosexuality. I have heard of people being accused of things that , in the sixties, were part of life and perfectly acceptable. In short: What has the man done to merit such a demeaning designation?

      • Chicagorat says:

        Thank heavens, in Chicago BO and Northern Trust are setting the ethical guardrails.

        We are not the Munich Philharmonic, we know what proper behavior is. 🙂

    • Salminen says:

      He has been cleared.

  • Cantantelirico says:

    Condoms are like that. You take one off and you put another one on.

  • Louy says:

    controversial ???
    Vous êtes lourd et pénible.

  • MarioRossi says:

    This summer I got the pleasure to be conducted by M° Gatti as a young singer. I will cherish this experience for all my life. Generous, kind and a genius.

  • Liam Allan-Dalgleish says:

    I am opposed to dismissing people on political, personal behavior (except when such is against the law) and other grounds unconnected to music. But I make an exception with him. I have heard a few tunes by him that were good but that guy is a walking mediocrity with the ear of a deaf piano tuner, and the grace of an alcoholic former Olympic bowling competitor. Anything that got hm away from the podium short of nuclear war is a good thing.

  • James Ulster says:

    Gatti is only “controversial” because he was falsely ‘me too-ed’ and dismissed from the Concertgebouw following no objectivity and no investigation of any kind. Trial by social media at its best.

  • Adolphina Frappéler says:

    Gatti’s interpretations are always touching, whether you want them to be or not.

    • John Borstlap says:

      Some ladies in symphony orchestras also found him quite touching, but not quite in the way they would have preferred.

  • music lover says:

    Gatti gives Gergiev a run for his money.Even in the Shostakovich.His performance with the Berlin Phil last year was absolutely phenomenal.

  • Evan Tucker says:

    Celibidache, Levine, Thielemann, Maazel, Gergiev, Gatti?….

    There’s a pattern here…

  • Karl says:

    I wish Dutoit could get some of those concerts.

  • VBMaestra says:

    They need to bring on Vanessa Benelli Mossell instead of Daniele Gatti. She is a far superior conductor.

  • Pierre says:

    Ihr Musikanalphabeten darf ein weltweit renommierte Orchester nicht als “Mariinsky-Wanderzirkus” nennen! Schämt euch!..

    Einen hässlichen Krieg bzw. eine nie mit Verständnis wahrzunehmende Invasion durft ihr nicht für eine Hexenjagd missbrauchen, gegen die, die ihr wahrscheinlich schon lange beneidet habt!..
    So durfte man auch kein Wagner hören sowie Furtwängler und Karajan… und, und, und…

  • Greg Bottini says:

    “Mariinsky travelling circus.”
    I love this description!
    And it’s very apropos – Gergiev has always been a clown.

  • So much bullshit all around. Perhaps we should stop making ourselves such jackasses in the commentary.

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