The Rattle Daily: ‘Perfect, but one beat late’
mainThe conductor, in London for a Sibelius cycle and publicity blitz, tells BBC News: ”London and Munich are now the two great cities in the world who (sic) don’t have proper concert halls’.
Hmmm…. let’s think: Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, Johannesburg, Capetown, Delhi, Bombay, Tehran, Geneva, Hamburg….
And, while on the subject, why does BBC arts editor Will Gompertz refer to the ‘ Berliner Philharmoniker’ when the band has been known in English since 1882 as the Berlin Philharmonic? Pretentious twaddle, or arm-twisted branding?
Hamburg has http://www.elbphilharmonie.de/elbphilharmonie-hamburg.en
Not yet…
ah yes you’re right, it might just float away……NOT
What do we know about the Hamburg Elb Philharmonie’s acoustics? Have they been tested yet?
Hamburg does have a beautiful historic concert hall with good acoustics: the Laiszhalle (it has been compared to the Amsterdam concertgebouw).
It is managed by the elbphilharmonie team, as both halls will be marketed under this label – therefore the perhaps misleading web link (as above):
http://www.elbphilharmonie.de/mobile/pages/laeiszhalle/service.de
He meant great musical cities, and you know it.
Agreed. Surely not Tehran, to note the most obvious.
London seems to me to be a few steps up from Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, Johannesburg, Capetown, Delhi, Bombay, Tehran, Geneva, or even Hamburg. A city with so many orchestras and not one indisputably fine hall really does seem a bit odd.
London and Munich are in a different league than the others.
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv have so many music lovers that they need to give the same concert more than once but neither of us has a decent concert hall.
Melbourne?! The Hamer Hall is a terrific refurbishment and Melbourne Recital Hall has one of the finest acoustics in the world
The Recital Hall is great for chamber music. Hamer? Come on…
The Laeiszhalle in Hamburg is one of the best concert halls in Europe with superb acoustics. A good old decent “horse shoe”.