Maestros and their motor cars (24): Thielemann takes a test

Sue says:

February 8, 2024 at 4:49 am

One of the best living conductors of our time! I am grateful to hear his music.

Dragonetti says:

February 8, 2024 at 9:39 am

Anyone here know how to get worms back in the can once it’s been opened?
An unwise decision to show a rather tedious ad with a conductor you’re likely to love or hate (who certainly wouldn’t lower himself beneath Porsche level) and all the half-witted trolls are immediately crawling out from under their stones.
VW’s history is highly debatable but not in a music site.

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Dragonetti says:

February 8, 2024 at 10:32 am

Well well! It seems that there IS a method! Well done one and all. All the bonkers posts have mysteriously evaporated.

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PHF says:

February 8, 2024 at 10:40 am

Too juvenile for him. He fits better in a Rolls Royce Phantom with a driver, paid by those orchestras he keep the beat to.

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TITUREL says:

February 8, 2024 at 12:01 pm

I can remember a VW TV ad from the 1980s in North America, where the German word “Fahrvergnügen” was used as an odd-sounding catch-phrase. (Means essentially “Enjoy the ride”.) It was ridiculous, seeing this hard-to-pronounce word emblazoned on signs at VW dealers in North Carolina and Nebraska and Ontario, This ad is better, thanks to Rienzi and CT.

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Anthony Sayer says:

February 8, 2024 at 9:44 pm

‘Driving pleasure’.

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Petros LInardos says:

February 8, 2024 at 3:53 pm

I don’t understand is why post about Thilemann promotional drive for VW, when there is info on his own car. In a 2010 interview Thielemann he mentions listening to Madonna in his Porsche. I can’t resist wondering whether he now listens to Taylor Swift.

https://www.welt.de/kultur/musik/article11901852/Thielemann-will-die-Droge-Wagner-besser-mischen.html

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