Concertgebouw books baroque conductor
OrchestrasThere is a Nikolaus Harnoncourt shaped hole in the heart of Amsterdam’s fabled orchestra.
Next candidate to step up for debut is the French specialist Enmanuelle Haim of Le Concert d’Astrée. She will conduct the Concergebouw in works by Handel and Rameau this month.
She is absolutely fabulous!!!!
What is the news here? This is hardly a novelty for RCO since she’s not the first baroque conductor to step on that podium. This said, I am looking forward to this concert!
I can’t wait to hear the Concertgebouw play like a b’rock band.
This wonderful clip of the great Emanuelle Hair conducting the Berlin Philharmonic may be as close to preview as we can get.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHTu91hpIhE
That is great music making….!
Harnoncourt conducted the Concertgebouw orchestra in those well-known baroque composers Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.
Who was it who complained that it was impossible to get Harnoncourt out of the Concertgebouw, or something like that?
Also Bruckner, once the organist at a famous baroque church.
I believe she is on par with Gardiner and Hogwood. Her Messiah is incomparable.
I don’t know how her Messiah is, but I think I would prefer Handel’s one.
Who are the specialist conductors, those able and willing to conduct the earlier repertoire or those who are not?
Heard her once with the Philadelphia Orchestra. By a wide margin the worst concert of the orchestra that I ever heard. That jumping up and down, that’s not conducting.
She was not asked back.
Fair enough. Conductors don’t hit it off with all orchestras.
On the other hand, Emmanuelle Haim has repeatedly conducted the Berlin Philharmonic. Any clips I have sampled sound marvelous. To me the Berliners under Haim look very animated. The latter, I believe, is a more important visual criterion than the conductors’ antics. Otherwise Leonard Bernstein should have been confined to oblivion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btvzre63GZE