Currentzis won’t take this sitting down
NewsThe controversial Greek-Russian conductor makes his new ensemble play standing up.
Do they sound any the better for it?
Your call.
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When I saw MusicAeterna they played standing up. They certainly seemed to be enjoying it. And I certainly did.
The Australian Chamber Orchestra has done that for many many years.
I vividly remember the Moscow Soloists with Yuri Bashmet playing standing, at least in the 90s. I am sure there many other examples.
Three of the four Emerson Quartet’s instrumentalists having been playing standing. I also remember Philip Setzer sitting when playing chamber music with others at Marlboro.
Zounds……! Trying to imagine the facial expressions of those ‘cellists……..
This is news because? He’s hardly the first to have players stand to play – Eliot Gardiner, Roth and Collon spring to mind in recent performances
His “old” ensemble played standing up, too. Nothing new here.
John Elliott Gardiner has done this with the LSO in Mendelssohn, so what’s new? I think you can find a video on YouTube. JEG reckons standing up allows string players to play more “soloistically”! (Cellists and Bassists still have to sit of course!).
A wonderful performance of Bach’s Brandenburgs from Edinburgh has been posted on this blog. Again the musicians are standing. No insinuations against the excellent Richard Egarr though.
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra often play standing.