Not another Finn stick…
NewsHarrisonParrott this week signed for general management the young Finn Kristian Sallinen, a student of Sakari Oramo’s at the Sibelius Academy. He is also being mentored by the rest of the Finn pack.
In other moves this week, Maestro Arts inked the American conductor Matthew Straw, IMG nabbed the British tenor Oliver Johnston and bass-baritone Cory McGee joined Promethean Artists
One can just wonder how much money they put to promote their apprentices. I guess BPO debut 24-25?
Better than an embarassing BPO concert of an 80 year old who simply has no grip over the orchestra anymore…
Who exactly do you mean? Barenboim? Mehta?
“Finn Pack”???? Do we have a new bête noir?
Who cares?
Finland is the last bastion of a dying art form.
It’s agents, politicians and universities who are killing music,
Agents and the “self-appointed inspectors of morality and ‘justice'”, I’d say.
Jingoistic,xenophobic comment…..Not the first time here.
I’m not sure whose comment is being branded as “jingoistic, xenophobic” here. Were you thinking perhaps of Mr David Hurwitz, whose review of Klaus Makela’s Sibelius cycle sank to the level of invective he normally reserves for Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Roger Norrington or M. Francois-Xavier Roth?
David Who? I don´t listen to pompous clowns like Hurwitz…Don´t need to.can read a score,am a professional musician for 45 years,have ears myslf.
These agents are killing music by filling it with star performing monkeys with no experience or skills!!!
None of these compare to a Reiner, Walter, Monteux, Muti and the rest!
That is why Classic FM is now the benchmark!
I’m impressed that you still get to so many concerts! To be in a position to make a meaningful judgement on Reiner and Walter as live performers, I’m guessing you must be well over 80 years old – and yet you’ve heard sufficient concerts by the current younger generation to have formed a very strong opinion. Full marks for longevity, if not taste.
Obviously you didn´t read my comment…..I said i only heard Muti live,many times,in fact.
I think you are mixing everything and confused. Muti is not an exellent conductor, many commenters here would agree he comes across as artificial and rehearsed-against-the-mirror type. Monteux was definitely not without question…
On the other hand many of the picked-by-the-agency performing monkeys did become a prime names, far surpassing the ones you mentioned (you wouldn’t agree but that’s because you are old and the grass was greener). So I envy them that they got the chance.
Typical armchchair conductor comment…..I performed,and do play a lot under those young conductors. Music evolves,all the time…I find many of them great.The finns have usually fantastic skills,beacause they are required to play an orchestra instrument professionally,and to work with the orchestra every week in the conservatory…I haven´t heard any of those conductors you mentioned live,except for Muti….Time moves on,music too…Stylistically i find much of those recordings outdated…It´s ridiculous: Living in the 1970s.would you have compared Zukerman,Perlman,Accardo and other violinists to those of 60 years before, or Caballe to Nellie Melba? Each age has its own standards,its own great personalities…In 50 years the heroes of our days will be jugded differently.Rightly so.Music is no timeless monument..It´s always changing,and evolving..Same as those who perform it.
What you have just written is IMO, absolutely right. And so much amateur criticism of recent performances is based on nostalgia for the good old days of Leopold and Lenny and Sir Thomas, which ain’t coming back.
He looks a bit old to be starting a conducting career.