Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Mats Norrman ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>
>>...  Jeffrey Tate is an interesting figure, but the only Mahler he has
>>done lately as I know of is Mahlers arrangement of Schuberts "Death and
>>the Maiden", which I heard a month ago.
>
>You;re losing ground Mats!  tate recorded DatM in June 1985 a few days
>after giving the UK premiere.  It's been deleted for some time I believe.

jaja, anyway I can say that I have the highest respect for Tate as man
as well as musician.  I met him a year back when he held repetitions for
a Bruckner symphony with the Royal Philharmonics, and he is a very nice
man.  To watch the work with getting Bruckner 7 on right edge was a
fantastic event.  He interrupted the orchestra very often, and always
he had something to adjust.  My company at the visit asked one of the
musicians if it was not tiresome to get stopped all the time, but he
replied "No, as long as he says something constructive it is just
interesting to learn, and Tate always has something of value to say when
he stops us.".  I must say he showed a remarkable knowledge of all sort of
things, which not all conductors do.  The performance which followed was
of course splendid.  To sum up I would like to say that special with Tate
is that I have never heard a performance by him on record or elleswhere
that was not very good quality.  Most of conductors tend to produce at
least a few flawed performanced, but he not.  The same goes for Antal
Dorati, although I haven't heard as much with him, although I have heard
more than Petterssons breakthrough.

Mats Norrman
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