Re: New Exciting Conductors

Gerard: "He has changed, or so.
Maybe I have the same Stravinsky (around 6 discs too, anyhow not 11) and
certainly the same Hindemith recordings.
Re the modernistic he did a lot,mostly Stravinsky, but he was never a
completist. He did not much with Prokofiev; a little more Varèse,
Schoenberg, Messiaen, Zemlinsky, Janacek, Ravel, Schnittke."
Times have changed. Record companies aren't too eager to make that kind
of recordings anymore, and concert halls aren't programming those
composers anymore.
Like I said: Stravinsky should have had the stature of a Beethoven by
now; however he's hardly ever programmed.
In Amsterdam, Mariss Janssons started this Classic FM repertoire shrink.
Chailly's coming to conduct Bruckner 9 this fall.
I remember getting Chailly's double CD with Schumann symphonies in
Mahler's orchestration, but I just didn't get the point of making these
recordings,.