Just in: Kirill Petrenko cancels Dutch
OrchestrasPress release:
Conductor Kirill Petrenko unfortunately has had to cancel his return as guest conductor with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra this week due to health reasons. The orchestra is very grateful that Jaap van Zweden has agreed to conduct the concerts on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 June at short notice.
The concert programme will be different from what was previously advertised. Jaap van Zweden will conduct Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9, followed by Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 (“Pathétique”).
How very awkward. Amsterdam’s loss
The substitution concert makes ZERO sense, how do you go from Alban Berg Drei Orchesterstücke and Bartók The Wooden Prince to Shostakovich 9 and Tchaikovsky 6 (a pairing itself that doesn’t make sense)?
I know it’s last minute, but it sends the message that classical pieces are just interchangeable, and the audience is not sophisticated enough to care.
How about just a full refund?
Indeed, the program change makes no sense at all. When the planned conductor drops out, you know who will be the replacement: 1 Harding. 2 Saraste or 3 van Zweden. Predictable. Was there no one who could do the program as planned? The musicians can play it, why can’t any good (overpayed) conductor just do it?? Bartok and Berg too difficult?? Come on! Its a sign of the state of the classical industry is in. The jet set conductors decide with there limited repertoire (Mahler, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky….).
I suppose both Harding AND Saraste could have done at least one of the original program.
Bartok wooden prince is not on the repertoire of many conductors, and they must be free and ready to come in 24hours
Not a Zweden fan , the change makes no sense but let’s recognize that these pieces are extremely tricky, i don’t want to attend a well prepared Zweden concert ie I certainly don’t want to attend a bad prepared Zweden ‘s concert…
He seems to have quite a few health issues.
Iam sure everybody wishes him well.
From originally Petrenko conducting rarely performed work Bartok’s ballet music The Wooden Prince to Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6. The great loss of the people in Amsterdam.
Lol that would completely put me off I bought tickets for Berg and they play me Tchaikovsky 6. No that I’m against the great Pyotr but come on…
Good for Petrenko. Happy he his looking after his health – but also that he does not feel pressured to work feeling under the weather with an orchestra that hired a kid MD who (conducted a Tchaik 6 with the Berlin Phil of late) and has more a taste for fine suits that for serious or sincere music making.
Neither Klaus Mäkelä nor Kirill Petrenko needs to apologize for their looks and clothes. If you don’t care for their music making, move on.
Spot on.
Boring time ahead….Zweden made Tchaikovsky Manfred boring in concert… Imagine pathétique… actually never heard convincing performance live, i like Bernstein, Mravinski, Karajan, kondrachine, Svetlanov. When you heard a symphony so much, hard to bring you something new live that the records didn’t….
Amsterdam is simply not what it used to be before Haitink left.
No one big city orchestra is not anymore what it used to be.. There are not conductors anymore like Abbado,Celibidache,Bernstein,Santi,Sinopoli,Matacic,de Burgos etc,etc…
Better not to speak about nowadays musicians!!!
The end was pretty bitter, Haitink suffered from it. If he had stayed, we would have had a 2000 orchestra sounding like 1975, which would have been good. But there was a generation shift, probably some routine, even if a Haitink routine concert is probably more convincing than most colleagues at their best…i miss him. Some recordings sound like old polished wood would smells and look….
Petrenko has health issues, but unlike DB he does not bring them to the stage. With best wishes for a speedy and durable recovery.