Our own utterly glorious Vladimir Jurowski, principal conductor designate of the LPO and music director at Glyndebourne, has been named the Royal Philharmonic Society's Conductor of the Year! (Just in time to do Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane in November :-))). He's opening the Glyndebourne season with MacVerdi's Macbeth next week. Vazhazdarovye, Vlad!
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Vazhazdarovye - what does that mean? When the only reference to this I can google is your site I suspect that something has gone wrong in the great glorious world of the language I don't like to speak.....
Na zdarovye? 'To health'?
A little learning....
Well, being as ever a technotwit, I can't do cyrillic on my computer. This was a phonetic transcription of the term used by my dearest Russian friend in London who says that his version is more accurate than 'Na zdarovye', which I always used to say, but which he insists is actually Polish. This probably doesn't help. :-)
I unfortunately have not yet seen Jurowski live, as I'm more than several hundred km away from any city where I might have the chance to see him. Reading James Inverne's little comment in the Gramophone article on Carlo Rizzi, though, one wonders whether he might go to WNO, or if the Philadelphia Orchestra can land him after 2012. Certainly the latter is what the one critic in Philadelphia wants.
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