Leipzig to announce music director next week
mainRiccardo Chailly’s resignation appears to have been well-coordinated. We hear that a media conference will be called midweek to introduce his Gewadnhaus successor.
Meanwhile, at La Scala, the house cats are smiling. Chailly intends to devote more time to his opera job after next June, especially to its philharmonic orchestra.
Rumours say Nelsons but we all know how false they can be…
Nelsons MUST stay
in the U.S. and A.
After not getting a call from Berlin, he won’t go near Leipzig, I bet.
Why?
And you keep your Hardings, your gardners, and all the other over-promoted limey mediocrities that are infesting classical music? Deal.
could be Luisi?
I hope not. He will be new principal conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra from 2017.
With 6 weeks a season in Copenahgen… hardly anything that would keep him from getting a real job elsewhere.
Six weeks? Is that all Denmark has?
Paavo Järvi ?
More seriously Ticciati, Bychkov, Heras Casado ?
Heras… good joke
The real joke here is Ticciati.
+1
Alan Gilbert.
I agree!
Alan Gilbert – pretty likely!
John Eliot Gardiner has been increasing his presence in Leipzig a great deal recently. He worked extensively with the NDR orchestra in the past as well. Only an informed guess, but maybe watch that space with especial care…
Given how Jeggy’s last appearance with Leipzig went (gleefully reported in Private Eye – players weren’t at all convinced by his take on Brahms 1 so did it their own way…) that sounds like a pretty unlikely turn of events!
He wasn’t a roaring success in Hamburg either, evidenced by the fact that his initial three-year contract as principal conductor of the NDR Symphony was not renewed. Some people are particularly good at going against the grain and rubbing people up the wrong way: remember the fisticuffs that JEG had with an LSO player?
While I agree with most of the above comments regarding JEG, I do believe that he would have had to leave Hamburg either way, as he had entered into a fixed-term 3 year contract that expressly lacked an extension-clause from the start.
It will be Alan Gilbert. Leaving NY around this time, said he likes guest conducting specifically in Germany, stepped in for Chailly last year on tour, etc.
Limey? What is this, 1920?
Vladimir Jurowski? He was mentioned as a dark horse for Berlin, but he’s surely bound for a position at one of Europe’s best orchestras.
Vladimir Jurowski a dark horse for Berlin – what a thought! The man who won the Berlin job should have been considered a dark horse for the position both then and now. And what of the fate of the Southwest German Radio SO (now to be merged with the South German RSO)? I’d say put Metzmacher there, in Xavier-Roth’s place and let the newly merged ensemble be as best a bastion for twentieth century and contemporary music. Beethoven and with a few exceptions at most, Mahler cycles under Michael Gielen achieved truly considerable musical integrity. It must be figured out how to continue on with a truly illustrious tradition as since Hans Rosbuad this ensemble has maintained so very well.
Well, most of the names quoted are overrated. There are only few around who do serve music in a true artistically sense. So I do not care acutally. The hype about all these Divas, Maestros, Startenors is just stardust….no stars around anymore… the very few who are are hidden behind the clouds….they do not like all these PR actions.
” most of the names quoted are overrated”
Anybody can say that. Please give a name of someone who isn’t overrated. I think all this business of expecting conductors to be Bruno Walter the very second they first step on to a podium is ridiculous. As Mahler said himself – in his last year – a conductor is little more than a necessary evil. Orchestras know ALL the standard rep. so well that I almost think it makes little difference who’s up in front of them. Yes, some are better than others.
The one and only difference is whether a conductor hinders or helps an orchestra to play its best.
And a conductor does either one or the other.
Yes orchestras all know the standard repertoire and the case in most concerts is that the orchestras are doing well covering up for conductors who do not even know the beat. Conducting behind the orchestra, giving a show and public is happy. I will not give any names….a conductor should bring the orchestra out of routine and bring a spark in the music making. But helas the public nowadays is happy with so called ‘junk food’. I start to avoid big names most of the time now. And the standard repertoire….we need more!!!
Why nobody mentioned Herbert Blomstedt? On paper 88 years old, the man apparently has found the secret receipt for eternal youth and a comeback in Leipzig for another ten years seems not unlikely.
it could be Yannick Nezet Seguin.