The Wiener Symphoniker have booked the outgoing New York Philharmonic music director for a 9-concert European tour in February-March.
The orchestra is presently headless and hunting. It needs someone who can start soon.
Watch this space.
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Please not jaap
They deserve each other. Arrogant management and the new rent-a-cop stick waver; a match made in Vienna.
Why did he quit play the violin?….he will never be as good conductor….
You are though. But it’s a question everybody ask about him. When you are the Konzertmeister of the Concertgebouw… But he was very adverturous he did somthing unique.
he was helped on the stage as conductor by Bernstein, no more and no less
@ Jobim 25.
Because even mediocre conductors earn more than musicians who slave away on their instruments.
Jaap did such wonders in NYC (sarcasm).
On the other hand, he is likely available.
Let him work.
His agent in Vienna is the very (some might say ‘too’) influential Michael Lewin. But just because they’ve booked him for a tour doesn’t mean they want him for chief. That could well be a big calendar gap that was created by the horribly handled departure of Orozco-Estrada.
All these people who complain about Jaap van Zweden; have any of them actually listened to his complete Bruckner symphonies cycle with the Netherlands Radio Phil. on Challenge Classics? . . if not, they really should. It’s about as good as they get. In fact, they should ask him to do some Bruckner in N.Y., as I feel he’s quite a bit better at it than Lorin Maazel was. He also made two very fine Mahler recordings in Dallas – the 6th symphony, followed by the 3rd. He’s one of the few people who conducts both Bruckner and Mahler equally well. I watched the PBS broadcast of his Beethoven’s 9th from the newly renovated David Geffen Hall. That was as exciting a Beethoven 9 as one could ever possibly hope to hear (yes, I know – Furtwaengler did the ending coda even faster). Jaap will be more than qualified for the Wiener Symphoniker. And if they are – as one person put it – “a match made in Vienna”, what exactly is wrong with that!