| “I won’t say any official goodbyes, but the fact is that I won’t conduct anymore.” The final week of Bernard Haitink's long career, reaching back to the fifties, is upon us. Three concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic. Salzburg, the Proms, Lucerne. Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto, Bruckner's Seventh Symphony... ... Emanuel Ax, replacing Murray Perahia, temporarily teased by arpeggiating the opening chord, treating his entry less as the pondered germ of a work than some Golden Age 'prelude' sounding-out the instrument... |