The passion and pain of Bernard Haitink

As he brings the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to London, conductor Bernard Haitink discusses the secret of playing Mahler, what the Nazis did to music, and playing a Prom through gritted teethMost conductors dream of being the principal conductor of a big US orchestra, but Bernard Haitink seems to have harboured no such ambition. Speaking of his decision to join the Chicago Symphony Orchestra three years ago, he squints into the sun glaring down on his garden above Lake Lucerne in Switzerland and ...

Read full article Share article