Just in: Concern for Barenboim as Berlin concert is abandoned
NewsWe hear that the second half of last night’s Berlin Staatskapelle concert at the Philharmonie was called off after the conductor fell sick.
Das Konzert in der Philharmonie Berlin mit #Barenboim wurde abgebrochen, Kreislaufprobleme hatte.
— Jens B. Teuber 🏳️🌈 (@JensTeuber1) April 13, 2022
The orchestra management has yet to issue a statement.
Barenboim has undergone back surgery in recent months. This is the first mention of a circulation problem.
We will update shortly with further information and wish Daniel a speedy recovery.
UPDATE: translation from the Japanese of Mori Yonekura : Staatskapelle Berlin Festival 2022
In the first half of the program, Cecilia Bartoli’s Konzert Aria, Barenboim & Argerich’s two piano concertos, and after a break, Barenboim suddenly became ill and the concert was canceled 😳!
I couldn’t listen to Bruckner No. 4.
シュターツカペレベルリンFesttage 2022
前半プログラムはチェチーリアバルトリのコンツェルトアリア、バレンボイム&アルゲリッチの2台ピアノ協奏曲と進んだところで休憩明けバレンボイムが急病でコンサートが中止に😳！
ブルックナー4番聴けませんでした。明日からも沢山オペラ振るのに大丈夫かな😣 pic.twitter.com/rttUfl17yI— 米倉 森 (@MoriYonekura) April 13, 2022
2nd UPDATE: When the audience returned after the interval, artistic director Matthias Schulz came on stage to announce that the Staatsoper’s general music director is suffering from circulatory problems and the second half – Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony – had to be abandoned. Speaking without a microphone, Schulz could onlt be heard nearby and there was considerable confusion and dismay as the hall emptied out.
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I was at the Da Ponte trilogy and the VPO concert last week. He already looked sick but his performances were great, in the Klemperer style. The VPO was in top form but Barenboim wasn’t as the pianist in Mozart’s K. 595.
Ever since I saw him use a score for “Die Fledermaus” overture on New Year’s Day, I’ve been a bit worried (yes, there are great conductors who use a score for everything, but anyone who has followed Barenboim even a little knows that’s not like him).
Not only that, but he conducted Verdi’s Requiem with a score recently, which was surprising to say the least given that he has in the past conducted this work from memory on a number of occasions. We wish him well in his recovery. He is one of the most musically inspiring figures on the world stage.
yup, good points…plus, could the spinal MRI’s the Maestro had cause his mental et physical deterioration…
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I find it more upsetting that Neeme Järvi had to cancel Hindemith’s “Das Unaufhörliche” in Linz due to health reasons.
Hopefully he will stop in the right moment and will have better advisors than Kurt Masur, who was pathetically carted onto the stages in a wheelchair at the end, oblivious to anything that was happening around him, least of all the music. Anyway, get well soon and have a long and full life.
Anti vaxxers will try to use this to claim that the Covid-19 vaccines can cause health problems… We unequivocally know they are wrong. The vaccines are safe and effective. Period. End. Of. Story.
Don’t know very much, do you?
This is sad news. Best wishes to Maestro Barenboim for a full and steady recovery.
Haven’t we all had enough anyway?
So much for the acoustics then !
Now, I know that Danny’s getting on a bit, but I’ve only ever heard of people having ‘Kreislaufprobleme’ in Germany. It’s a condition which doesn’t seem to exist anywhere else in the world. In my theatre back then, we called it ‘Kreislaub’, a guaranteed two- or three- day holiday of which no-one in authority ever questioned the legitimacy, a bit like the undue reverence our current covid hysteria has provoked. Some cast members would regularly suffer from Kreislaub about two days before the regular free day, thus affording them a conscious-free half week off. Get a handy German speaker to explain the wordplay if you don’t get it.
You beat me to it… I was wondering if this was a case of the dreaded “Kreislaufkollapse”…
love that Man, praying that he gets well in Jesus name
With prayers for a complete recovery, directly!
Wow. That Japanese expressed absolutely no concern about Barenboim’s condition. The tweet basically expressed how she was inconvenienced.
Sounds like congestive heart problems; fatal at this age. Sad.
You’d think an announcement could be given with a mike. Very simple.
I might be a little naive here but, in the old days didn’t the concertmaster take over?
A bit of a stretch to keep things together in Bruckner’s 4th (or most Bruckner, for that matter) from the concertmaster’s stand. That said, have you seen the video of that French orchestra playing Le Sacre du Printemps with no conductor? Brilliantly played, and full of connotations for the future of the pointless, desperate and narcissistic podium dwellers bred in contemporary musical (?) academia.
Wouldn’t that depend on the concertmaster and his/her ability to actually conduct?
Look up the story of Leonard Bernstein in Amsterdam asking a very young Jaap van Zweden, at the time concertmaster there, to conduct some Mahler 1 in rehearsal.
A pity for DB.
He thought that after his surgery every thing would be “like before”…
I saw him on YT advertising his future RING(Wagner)…he looked so old and tired.
Nearly 80 years old and giving so many concerts…that can’t last forever.
Over 65 ones health declines. They should just
Do teaching. Instead of travelling around the
Globe.
I’m surprised this situation couldn’t be resolved with a simple stage announcement, “Meine Damen und Herren, wir haben ein Emergency… Is there a Bruckner 4 conductor in the hall?”