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Double Bass Favorite Orchestra?
- Thread starter Rob Sleeper
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I'm not sure if the answer was given earlier...for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra-they've picked up Bernard Haitink as principle conductor for the next 4 years. They haven't quite picked a music director as of yet. FWIW-i work in the CSO Store. I'm biased towards the CSO under Solti.
I heard some people talk and they think that Muti might be the heir to Barenboim as the next music directer.
Haitink in Chicago? That should be excellent. He pulls an unusually clean sound out of his orchestras, which could propel Chicago higher than they've ever been. The only thing they've lacked over the years is a cleaner, purer sound (which, now that I think about it, could be due to their hall).
A couple weeks ago I saw Haitink and the CSO perform Mahler 3. I can't tell you how much I was impressed. My teacher said that he likes him a lot. He is the pure business type and doesn't B.S. like some conductors do.
There was an interesting interview with Simon Rattle last Friday where he talked about my favourite orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic and especially about their tone coming from the Double Basses!! 
"The mighty 'wuah'"
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" That sound was the indelible, Karajan-inspired voluptuousness that defined the reputation of the Berlin Phil around the world. "It's a real 'wuah' sound that starts underneath," he says, "a deep, bass-up sound, which is recognisably theirs. It's like an enormous heat source that comes at you, and you feel as though you can burn in it." It's also the most viscerally exciting sound in orchestral music: at the orchestra's recent Barbican concert in London, there were moments in Dvorak's Seventh Symphony when the sheer power of the playing, above all the string section and their titanic double-basses, seemed almost unbearably intense, like an untamed force of nature."
"The mighty 'wuah'"
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" That sound was the indelible, Karajan-inspired voluptuousness that defined the reputation of the Berlin Phil around the world. "It's a real 'wuah' sound that starts underneath," he says, "a deep, bass-up sound, which is recognisably theirs. It's like an enormous heat source that comes at you, and you feel as though you can burn in it." It's also the most viscerally exciting sound in orchestral music: at the orchestra's recent Barbican concert in London, there were moments in Dvorak's Seventh Symphony when the sheer power of the playing, above all the string section and their titanic double-basses, seemed almost unbearably intense, like an untamed force of nature."
