Word: concertgebouw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Philips, 2 LPs). Bernard Haitink leads Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra in a serene, glowing performance...
...world's great orchestras, which is the best? Some say the Chicago Symphony, for its brilliant virtuosity and blazing brass. Others nominate the Vienna Philharmonic, for its rich, burnished tone, or the Philadelphia Orchestra, for the sheen of its strings. The Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra has its champions, who admire its crisp ensemble playing. But there is one orchestra that combines all these characteristics: Herbert von Karajan's Berlin Philharmonic, which went to New York City's Carnegie Hall last week for the first time in six years, and in four sold-out concerts promptly laid claim...
...role of the marathon man of the chamber field can become confining, and too much Baroque music, as Marriner says, "is like being in a sewing machine factory." A few years ago, he began taking more and more engagements with symphonic ensembles. Conducting orchestras such as the Concertgebouw, the Boston Symphony and the French National Orchestra, he decided that what he had learned with chamber orchestras "translated very well into the symphonic world." A good thing too because now, at 55, Marriner is deep into the first season of his most challenging symphonic assignment yet, as music director...