Talk:Bernard Haitink

Recording information
The information on recordings is highly selective of his recordings, focusing on Boston (not hard to guess that it's someone in that area who added it). It disrupts the flow, and given how huge his discography is, I suggest its removal, or at least placement in a separate section. Any thoughts? Thanks, DJRafe (talk) 04:49, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Fully agree, this selection is ridiculous. There is a complete discography of commercial recordings up to 1987: http://www.dutchdivas.net/dirigenten/bernard_haitink03.html Adding this to the Weblinks and removing the few 1990s recordings would be much more informative. Greetings from one of the authors of the German Haitink-article. - 195.4.205.250 (talk) 18:53, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I tried to make the selected recordings selection a little less ridiculous, with respect to the Boston recordings, at least. DJRafe (talk) 00:03, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Infobox
I'm unconvinced we need an infobox on conductor articles (very few others do), but assuming we do: the term "associated acts" is not appropriate for classical music. The term "act" is not used in classical music the way it is in popular music. If we need this infobox at all, this needs to be fixed to something like "associated ensembles" or similar. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 07:08, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Recordings
I moved the recordings as they are - quite miserable, links to the composers but not the works ... - to Bernard Haitink discography, to be improved, leaving only a summary, also to be improved. I loved his concerts! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:55, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

British honours
We refer in the lead to "Bernard Johan Herman Haitink CH KBE". I think it would be in accordance with MOS:POSTNOM to delete the postnominals. They were honorary awards, and Haitink was not a British citizen. We don't refer in our leads to "Ronald Reagan, GBE", or "François Hollande, GCB", or "Riccardo Muti, KBE", and similarly I don't think we should mention Haitink's honorary British gongs in his lead. They should, of course, be mentioned in the main text, as indeed they are.  Tim riley  talk   13:07, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
 * No objections. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:08, 7 December 2021 (UTC)


 * OK, but then, for the sake of uniformity, the same should be done in all similar cases. The articles on pianists Alfred Brendel and Arthur Rubinstein, for example, still show these honorary postnominals. MUSIKVEREIN (talk) 21:49, 9 December 2021 (UTC)


 * That would be logical. But would not be needed for the change here. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:23, 9 December 2021 (UTC)