Wilson Pereira wrote:

>Maestro Claudio Abbado has announced that he is leaving the podium of
>the BPO in 2002.  Who is going to be the next conductor of the Berliner
>Philharmoniker? Does anyone wants to bet? Some favourites: (a) Sir Simon
>Rattle; (b) Daniel Barenboim; (c) Mariss Jansons; (d) Lorin Maazel; (e)
>Zubin Mehta and (e) Riccardo Muti.

Myself on the other hand would not be surprized if the BPO would leave out
all of these (Rattle being the least impossible) - mostly because of their
rumoured hard feelings towards the current "foreign" Maestro (Abbado) - and
thus would opt for a truly Germanic Kappelmeister; Christian Thielemann the
one that probobly would come out on top. Extremely boring, but then, thats
the BPO.

peter lundin, gothenburg.se