ブザンソン2009年9月
This September the Orchestra travelled to Besancon in France for the International Conducting Competition - lasting 8 days this competition attracted a lot of press interest with the eventual winner conducting the first half of a concert featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Besancon is a pretty town with houses of brown stone and red roofs - and with the weather on the whole being quite good and the food being very good, we spent a pleasant week there - it being a rare opportunity to stay in one place for a length of time. There was a lot of media interest in this competition and I must have done at least half a dozen interviews by the end of the week! Below are some excerpts from local newspaper coverage and also an interview I gave to Arte TV.
‘Brillant BBC Symphony orchestra’
Musique a programme avec Jiri Belohlavec a la baguette. De l’Italie d’Elgar a la Pastorale de Beethoven.
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‘L’orchestre de la BBC entre en scene’
‘…..Hier soir encore, la moitie des candidats encore en lice devait tirer sa reverence. Il en est meme un qui a insiste apres du photographe pour qu’il immortalise sa poignee de mains avec le premier violon du BBC Symphony orchestra. Une photo souvenir pour temoigner qu’il a dirige une formation de prestige….’
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From: Le Parisien.fr
‘Le Concours de jeunes chefs d’orchestre de Besancon, un ‘veritable tremplin” de Angela Schnaebele (AFP) - 17 Sept 2009
‘..The BBC Symphony Orchestra is very good training, very flexible. This is an incredible experience that will serve me in my work’ enthuses Japanese candidate Kazuki Yamada, who returns to contest the competition for a second time. Three candidates from Japan had been selected for the competition in Besancon - all are present for the semi finals. ‘A lot of Japanese conductors seem to have high sensitivity and great technical precision’ analyses Stephen Bryant, first violinist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra…..’
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hd2fn0QFcE7Cu4YBcjPfXZ15s-_w
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