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Double Bass Favorite Orchestra?

#22
Dr Rod said:
""when I move to Cincinnati I'll also go see Cleveland...."

A very good plan.

The Cincinnati SO and Paavo Jarvi are highly professional but not at the same level, and they are a bit boring IMHO.
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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra are very different.
The 14 performances I heard live in Cleveland were beautiful, with their 'trademark sound', in their GlORIOUS and perfectly balanced concert hall. But they never "went for it" - it's their style to really lay back. Very Genuine "section playing". Very ""European"", so they say.
The 20 or so performances I've heard so far in Cincinnati were very different. Pavo is brilliant. Far More Dynamic performances, but their concert hall is Not Complimentary. It's way too big and dry, and not much they can do about it - and the orchestra knows it. Cincinnati plays way more "virtuosic" because they have to fight their own hall, and they really stun the world when they go on international tour and when they play in Carnegie.
When Cleveland plays in different halls they sometimes get lukewarm reviews; allegedly they don't make much sound 'cause they're used to playing in "the perfect hall".
So maybe it's impossible to fairly judge these orchestras in their own halls! ...?

Sadly, I've yet to hear the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in their hall.
 
#24
I went to see the Chicago Symphony play Dvorak Symphony no. 9 conducted by Jarvi. Truly amazing. I bought a recording of the CSO play Dvorak 9 right after the concert. Chicago is deftantly one of my favorite american orchestras with Cleveland.
 
#25
The CSO is one of several orchestras now at a turning point because of the departure or imminent departure of an established and capable music director. Same is true in D.C., with the NSO at the end of Slatkin's tenure.

I'll be interested to see who the CSO taps to replace Barenboim. I was never a huge fan of his conducting, though I certainly didn't hate it. It's just that after Solti and Giulini and Levine...

It may be my short-sightedness, but I'm not seeing a lot of young conductors capable of filling the shoes of the generation now passing on. I sure hope I'm wrong, and there certainly are some young conductors I'm anxious to see...
 
#27
Pete G said:
The CSO is one of several orchestras now at a turning point because of the departure or imminent departure of an established and capable music director. Same is true in D.C., with the NSO at the end of Slatkin's tenure.

I'll be interested to see who the CSO taps to replace Barenboim. I was never a huge fan of his conducting, though I certainly didn't hate it. It's just that after Solti and Giulini and Levine...

It may be my short-sightedness, but I'm not seeing a lot of young conductors capable of filling the shoes of the generation now passing on. I sure hope I'm wrong, and there certainly are some young conductors I'm anxious to see...
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Watch out calling something the CSO when everyone doesn't live in your city. In my city, CSO stands for Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. It's like saying PSO. Do you mean Pittsburgh or Philadelphia?
 
#31
They have a lot of opera overtures recorded and some other things. They only play concerts at Carnegie because of the hectic schedule of being a full time opera orchestra. I believe they play 8 concerts a year, and those concerts are usually on my priority list to attend.
 
#32
Pete G said:
It may be my short-sightedness, but I'm not seeing a lot of young conductors capable of filling the shoes of the generation now passing on.
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A few years ago I would have agreed with you, but there are now quite a few really interesting people, some young, some not so young, but they are very busy at the moment: Daniele Gatti (London Phil??), Franz W. Most (Cleveland), Giergiev (London SO ??), Rattle, Burgos, Sinopoli, Chailly etc....

My favourite would be Gatti for Chicago.
 
#33
I think it depends of the music that the orchestra its going to preform. For example, I love mahler ehit vienna phil and bernstein. I also love beethoven whit karajan/berlin. The best pines of rome are with the chicago symphony.
 
#34
Rob Sleeper said:
Hey everyone,

I am just curious to see what are some of your favorite orchestras? Mine will always be the Berlin Philharmonic w/ Herbert Von Karajan as music directer. Every section of the orchestra plays so well in time and togather. Best orchestral playing I have ever heard. Also I bought a recording of them playing Carmina Burana and at the end of peice I got real emotional.

Rob
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Has to be one of, if not THE, best ever. I also like Rozhdestvensky conducting the Moscow Phil, especially for the Russian Masters. Steinberg conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra was always underrated, IMHO.
 
#36
Dr Rod said:
A few years ago I would have agreed with you, but there are now quite a few really interesting people, some young, some not so young, but they are very busy at the moment: Daniele Gatti (London Phil??), Franz W. Most (Cleveland), Giergiev (London SO ??), Rattle, Burgos, Sinopoli, Chailly etc....

My favourite would be Gatti for Chicago.
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sorry, i don´t want to be a smart ass, but sinopoli is not very busy at the moment: he died in 2001...

(while he was conducting 3rd act of aida at deutsche oper berlin)
 

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