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...Inspired by her mentor, Bernard Haitink, Chan favours economical gestures and understatement on the podium. Even though the Dutch maestro died in 2021, she talks about him in the present tense....
...When Bernard Haitink conducted the score for the Royal Ballet in the late 1980s he insisted on an orchestra of 70-plus (the mandolins were wedged into the stalls circle); Davies manages with 16 musicians...
...The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink cut an enigmatic figure during a career spanning 65 years at the highest levels of music-making....
...Led by Georg Solti and Bernard Haitink, they started to perform and record the music of Elgar, most English of composers. None formed a more lasting bond with it than Daniel Barenboim....
...The most sensational thing about Bernard Haitink’s final concert was its lack of sensationalism, followed closely by its lack of finality....
...At the age of 90, Bernard Haitink has announced that he is taking “a sabbatical”. He says he has chosen his words carefully, because he does not want to say he is stopping....
...At the London Philharmonic, Jurowski will have clocked up 14 years by the time he leaves, longer than either Adrian Boult or Bernard Haitink, the longest-serving conductors of the previous half century....
...One of my bitterest regrets is that I never heard Abbado in Lucerne before his death five years ago, but last year I did hear Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly and Bernard Haitink....
...Gautier Capuçon produces a lyrical, early romantic performance that is seconded by decorous playing from Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe....
...The event was one of the occasional concerts given on the Royal Opera stage, first introduced by Bernard Haitink and encouraged now by Antonio Pappano....
...A campaign to save the orchestra drew support from figures including Simon Rattle and Bernard Haitink, as well as the Ferrara-born Partito Democratico Culture Minister Dario Franceschini, a key player in...
...Would he preserve the ensemble’s ultra-sophisticated sound, so carefully nurtured by predecessors such as Bernard Haitink and Mariss Jansons? This Barbican concert did a lot to reassure us....
...When he received the award for Lifetime Achievement at the Gramophone Awards last week Bernard Haitink said ruefully that he had “never felt so old”....
...All of this was worlds away from the previous evening’s main concert, in which Bernard Haitink conducted the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and pianist Maria João Pires in a concert of Schubert and Mozart favourites...
...Virtuosity of a different kind was on show when the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Bernard Haitink came to the Royal Albert Hall. How mellow is this orchestra’s sound....
...Haitink and the LSO in an affectionate, unpretentious Fourth....
...Conductor Bernard Haitink told the FT it “definitely needs a very good new hall”. Michael Tilson Thomas, principal guest conductor of the LSO, agrees....
...The main Prom of the evening could hardly have looked more staid by comparison, but that would be to underestimate conductor Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra....
...Leaderless since James Levine’s health-related resignation in early 2011, the orchestra has carried on under the custodial care of such senior maestros as Christoph von Dohnányi, Bernard Haitink, Kurt Masur...
...In any case, Bernard Haitink’s performance of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra last month was nothing if not an exercise in close listening....
...That Bernard Haitink and Maria João Pires were available and willing was serendipitous, but the concert was an anti-climax and we were left wondering whether Diego Matheuz, the dynamic young Venezuelan,...
...Even old-style conductors, such as Bernard Haitink and the much-missed Claudio Abbado, not to mention mainstream maestros such as Simon Rattle and Vladimir Jurowski, have adopted “period” ideas....
...This year at the Proms, Perahia played Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto with spark and a wonderful improvisatory freshness (at moments I felt the rich-sounding Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink...
...At the age of 83, Bernard Haitink is one of the most practical conductors in the business and it must be a joy to play under a musician who signals what he wants so calmly and clearly....
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