Jiří Bělohlávek (1946 - 2017)

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Rinaldo

June 01, 2017, 01:56:15 AM
Just got the news he succumbed to his illness. Big loss for Czech music.
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~ Grażyna Bacewicz

Harry

#1
June 01, 2017, 02:13:14 AM
I am really sorry to hear this. He was a fine and sensitive conductor, and will be truly missed.
R.I.P.
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

mc ukrneal

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June 01, 2017, 02:43:41 AM
Sad indeed.
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Maestro267

#3
June 01, 2017, 03:23:50 AM
Wow. Terrible news. I was quite shocked when I saw him pictured in the latest Gramophone magazine, bald.

Great conductor and tireless champion of Czech composers. RIP.

North Star

#4
June 01, 2017, 03:35:09 AM
That's terrible news.
Big loss for Czech music indeed - there's still loads of Martinů to be recorded.
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Brian

#5
June 01, 2017, 06:29:07 AM
Very sad to hear this. Still remember very gratefully getting to see him live in 2011, conducting Liszt's Second Concerto (w/ Benjamin Grosvenor) and the premiere performance version of Janáček's Glagolitic Mass at the BBC Proms. A great memory from a great conductor.

vandermolen

#6
June 02, 2017, 11:22:41 AM
Sad news indeed and he wasn't that old. When I get back home from Kyiv I shall play Suk's 'Asrael' in memoriam.
RIP
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Florestan

#7
June 02, 2017, 01:01:40 PM
Sad news. RIP.
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part." - Claude Debussy

aligreto

#8
June 03, 2017, 12:18:00 AM
Sad news indeed. His music making was always worth listening to. RIP
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