With a wave of high-profile international conductor resignations post-Brexit, Richard Morrison advocates the benefits of nurturing home-grown talent.
Is it coincidence or something more ominous that six top UK orchestras are losing their music directors in quick succession? There was much press speculation when Simon Rattle announced he was quitting the London Symphony Orchestra after six years (barely a third of the time he served in Birmingham or Berlin), acquiring a German passport and moving to the excellent Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Clearly things haven’t worked out as the LSO would have wished.
We recently named the London Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra as two of the greatest orchestras in the world.
But his departure is just the most newsworthy of many. A week later, the highly rated Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla announced she was relinquishing the music director job at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Like Rattle, she cited ‘personal reasons’. That can mean anything... Keep reading on Classical Music Magazine.
Is it coincidence or something more ominous that six top UK orchestras are losing their music directors in quick succession? There was much press speculation when Simon Rattle announced he was quitting the London Symphony Orchestra after six years (barely a third of the time he served in Birmingham or Berlin), acquiring a German passport and moving to the excellent Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Clearly things haven’t worked out as the LSO would have wished.
We recently named the London Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra as two of the greatest orchestras in the world.
But his departure is just the most newsworthy of many. A week later, the highly rated Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla announced she was relinquishing the music director job at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Like Rattle, she cited ‘personal reasons’. That can mean anything... Keep reading on Classical Music Magazine.