Given that he took over the conducting from Andris Nelsons at such a late stage, Hartmut Haenchen showed that
he had already mastered the theatre’s difficult acoustic by this second performance of the run. He adopted fashionably brisk tempos in this famously slow-moving work, but
it never felt rushed, and he gave plenty of space for his singers
Matthew Rye
Ganze Rezension... "Given that he took over the conducting from Andris Nelsons at such a late stage, Hartmut Haenchen showed that
he had already mastered the theatre’s difficult acoustic by this second performance of the run. He adopted fashionably brisk tempos in this famously slow-moving work, but
it never felt rushed, and he gave plenty of space for his singers"...
Matthew Rye
Ganze Rezension