I'm quite annoyed with the Concertgebouw, and their bow-wow release policies - whatever you want to call them - with their in-house label. Both they and the BRSO have chosen to issue a bazillion items with M. Jansons, most of which are just safe, 'middle of the road' performances. Rather than put up with Gatti's quirky personality and force him to understand that the women are 'hands off', they chose the easy and soft way by going with the talented but unproven upstart from Finland. Whatever. Perhaps Amsterdam's loss will prove to be Dresden's gain. We'll see. I'm sure the message has gotten through to Gatti to keep his loosey-goosey hands to Italian women (assuming if they don't mind).
