The 'I'm sick' bug continues. Today, yesterday's conductor of the Vienna Phil. (for Brahms), Andris Nelsons, stepped in for the allegedly ailing Franz Welser-Most. Let me tell you, this Bruckner 6 was among the very greatest performances I've ever seen of ANY work. Period. It was easily as great as when I saw Karajan do Bruckner 5 with the VPO in 1981 at the Musikverein. Yes, it was THAT good! Allow me to assure you, the Boston Symphony is in very good hands with this Nelsons character. Also, trust me, there's a Vienna New Year's Concert in his future as well (based on the quality of his conducting of the Viennese encore pieces). The crowd went nuts today. So did I.
One hour later: well, I just read that Nelsons is going to take over Abbado's duties with the Lucerne Summer Festival. Interesting, eh?
And let put this into perspective: Berkeley is probably THE least likely to like Bruckner town on the entire planet. Bruckner sales at The M.O. are next to nothing. Yet, the entire Berkeley audience - usually noisy as hell - were completely silent throughout the Adagio and other quiet moments. I was blown away.
Topic: incredible Bruckner 6 w/ Andris Nelsons/VPO in Berkeley (Read 9609 times)