RIP Gustav Leonhardt

[Diapason]

Sad news.

[Jared]

^^ Oh, that's truly sad... :-((

I have just read in BBC Music that he had cancelled his appointments for 2012, citing ill-health, where they suggested that he'd probably conducted his last concert. Sadly, they were right.

... I think the Ascension Oratorio might be appropriate... don't you?

[Seán]

Ah no, that is terrible news.

May he Rest in Peace.

[Ciaran]

Just now heard on Radio 3 that he died yesterday. He had only retired from performance a month ago! One of his last recordings (maybe his very last) was a very beautiful CD of Bach Secular cantatas with Café Zimmermann:



Such a pity there can't be more!

Gramophone obituary.

[Jared]

^^ looks like a lovely disk Ciaran... note to self, MUST invest in some more Leonhardt...

[Diapason]

I remember you talking about that recording in glowing terms, Ciaran.

[fergus]

I was a really great admirer of Gustav Leonhardt. A lot of my Bach harpsichord music is performed by him. To me he was a great Artist. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

[Seán]

I was a really great admirer of Gustav Leonhardt. A lot of my Bach harpsichord music is performed by him. To me he was a great Artist. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

I have a couple of his Bach CDs in my 60 CD Baroque set, I must listen to them later this evening.

[Jared]

I really do mean to add some more Leonhardt Bach to my collection in due course... I really like what I've heard thus far; I'm sure his scholarship will be a sad loss, but he has left a very respectable body of work, in bringing Baroque interpretation into the modern era.

[Seán]

Here is a lovely quote that Chalkie posted on CMG:

On Twitter someone wrote...

Finally, Bach gets to meet Gustav Leonhardt...