Featured Past Post #88 (Administrative Note)

Conductor Christian Thielemann has been much in the arts news these past few weeks concerning his dispute with the Müncheners of the administration of the Munich Philharmonic where he was Music Director, and his consequent acceptance of the post of Music Director of the Staatskapelle Dresden. Munich's loss, Dresden's gain. The magnitude of that loss and gain can be judged fairly by a sterling recording of Wagner's impossible to get right music-drama Parsifal that Thielemann recorded in 2006 for Deutsche Grammophon. We offered a few remarks on that recording in a 2006 S&F post titled, "A Brief Note On The New Deutsche Grammophon Parsifal" the link to which post is now up on our right sidebar as our new Featured Past Post. We're delighted to note that our comments in that post on Thielemann's conducting were made years before we had any knowledge of a young Thielemann's close professional association with conductor Herbert von Karajan.