Breaking: French hire exiting Vienna Opera chief
OrchestrasThe Orchestre National de France has named its next chief conductor to succeed Cristian Macelaru (who’s heading to Cincinnati).
The incoming boss will be Philippe Jordan, music director of the Vienna State Opera, whose tenure has been made uncomfortable by an aggressive management.
For Jordan it’s a homecoming. Before Vienna, he was music director at the Paris Opera.
Macelaru and Jordan, name a decent recording from either. There isn’t. Lame ducks
The same about most other stars.
Name a decent recording from Thielemann? Petrenko? Gatti? Nelsons? You can’t. Anything you nominate I can give you five more that are far better. This is a dumb game.
Jordan’s Wagner is very good. Don’t know him as well in the symphonic repertoire. As for Macelaru, he did a good impression guest conducting in Montréal. He’s still quite young – commentators on this blog keep demanding that conductors be given time to grow – you can’t do that and demand a definitive discography from an early quadragenarian.
Macelaru’s complete recording of the Enescu Symphonies on DG just won a Diapason d’Or…
Macelaru’s Enescu symphonies are pretty good, do try them. Jordan is “technically competent but faceless” according to one violinist I know who’s played under him more than once
As if you know all their recordings. I doubt you know even one of them. Always the same rubbish from the usual suspects.
Heard him only twice, and would like to hear more. He got a warm welcome from both orchestra and crowd, so, perhaps he is the genuine article.