Thu 23 Jun programme - London Symphony Orchestra

Bernard Haitink
Conductor
‘There is no safer pair of hands in
this music than Bernard Haitink.’
The Independent, Jun 2011
With an international conducting career
that has spanned more than five decades,
Amsterdam-born Bernard Haitink is one of
today’s most celebrated conductors.
Principal Conductor of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra from 2006–2010, he
was for more than 25 years music director
of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
In addition, Bernard Haitink has previously
held posts as music director of the Dresden
Staatskapelle, the Royal Opera, Covent
Garden, Glyndebourne Festival Opera,
and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
He is Conductor Laureate of the Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra and Conductor
Emeritus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
and has made frequent guest appearances
with most of the world’s leading orchestras.
In the 2010/11 season, Bernard Haitink
conducted the opening concerts of the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s season
in Amsterdam, followed by performances
of Tristan und Isolde at Zürich Opera.
He began a Brahms Cycle with the Chamber
Orchestra of Europe at the Lucerne Piano
Festival in November 2010 which continued
in this year’s Lucerne Easter and Summer
festivals. Further concerts with the COE
this season included Beethoven cycles
at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, and
the Salle Pleyel, Paris. Other highlights of
2010/11 included concerts with the Berlin
Philharmonic, Symphony Orchestra of the
Bayerischer Rundfunk, LSO and Chicago
Symphony.
Bernard Haitink has recorded widely
for Philips, Decca and EMI with the
Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Berlin and
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and the
Boston Symphony Orchestra. His discography
includes many opera recordings with the
Royal Opera, Glyndebourne, the Bavarian
Radio Orchestra and Dresden Staatskapelle.
He has recorded extensively with the
London Symphony Orchestra for LSO Live
(the complete Brahms and Beethoven
symphonies) and with the Chicago Symphony
on their ‘Resound’ label. Bernard Haitink’s
recording of Janáček’s Jenufa with the Royal
Opera received a Grammy Award for best
opera recording in 2004, and his Shostakovich
Symphony No 4 recording with the Chicago
Symphony was awarded a Grammy for Best
Orchestral Performance of 2008.
Bernard Haitink has received many
international awards in recognition of his
services to music, including an honorary
Knighthood and the Companion of Honour
in the United Kingdom, and the House Order
of Orange-Nassau in the Netherlands.
He was named Musical America’s Musician
of the Year for 2007.
Bernard Haitink in 2011/12 season
Sun 10 Jun 2012 7.30pm
Purcell Chacony in G minor
Mozart Piano Concerto No 20
Schubert Symphony No 9 (‘The Great’)
with Maria João Pires piano
Thu 14 Jun 2012 7.30pm
Purcell arr Steven Stucky
Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Mozart Piano Concerto No 23
Bruckner Symphony No 7
with Maria João Pires piano
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12 The Artists Bernard Haitink © Clive Barda
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