Bernard Haitink: Portrait (Box-Set, Br-Klassik)

Congratulations, Bernard Haitink! On the occasion of the 90th birthday of the important conductor Bernard Haitink, this resounding portrait of the artist is being published by BR Klassik: a box with a total of eleven albums, the outstanding live recordings of which document the long-term intensive collaboration between the Dutch conductor and the Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra. Since Haitink conducted a subscription concert for the BR for the first time in 1958, he has stood and still stands at the podium of the Munich orchestra, sometimes in the Herkulessaal of the Residenz, sometimes in the Philharmonie in Gasteig, so for six decades now. The orchestral musicians and singers enjoy working with him, as does the sound engineer of the BR Haitink, long-time unit manager Wolfram Gaul, in his laudation in the booklet. The box offers an excellent overview of the joint interpretations of masterpieces of the Viennese classic as well as the German-Austrian late romanticism: outstanding compositions by Beethoven, Bruckner, Haydn and Mahler. The box is a must for everyone who wants to get an impression of the work of the conductor Bernard Haitink, who wants to get an overview of his long-term cooperation with the orchestras of the Bavarian Radio and generally a very solid selection of excellent recordings of masterpieces of the classical and romantic repertoires of the genres oratorio and symphony.