The London Philharmonic Orchestra has, in recent years, chosen its principal guest conductors with impeccable taste. Vladimir Jurowski, the orchestra's much admired music director, preceded his current august role with the chief guest spot. Once he ascended the golden staircase, he was succeeded by Yannick Nézet-Séguin (to whose appointment luster was added when he was then made music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra).
It has been a good 12 months for Orozco-Estrada. The 36-year-old is soon to finish his music directorship of the Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna and, it was announced about a year ago, will then take up the same position for the Houston Symphony--a band looked on as something of a potential rising star in the U.S. music scene.
The big question now is how long the LPO and Jurowski will stay together.
Even if some of his repertoire choices have been tricky at the box office, Jurowski is, too, seen as an "electric" presence on the podium. There are no whispers that have reached our ears about him moving on, and one feels there's a lot of life in that partnership yet.
Mind you, that's what we thought about Jurowski and Glyndebourne, and he left that position last season...
