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1930–2014 American conductor and composer A child prodigy, whose conducting won the praise of Toscanini, Maazel’s career began in earnest in Europe, and in 1960 he was the first American to conduct at Bayreuth. Directorships followed at the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra 1964–75, the Deutsche Oper, Berlin 1965–71, the Cleveland Orchestra 1972–82, the Orchestre ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

surrounding Northern Ireland in the 1960s and 70s through the medium of a local football team. Recommended Recording: Requiem, soloists, Winchester Cathedral Choir, English CO (cond) Lorin Maazel (Decca) Sounds Familiar Joseph Lloyd Webber’s songs have become an institution, none more so than those from the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Tunes such as ‘Any ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

prodigy, he gave his first solo recital at the age of 10 and as a teenager worked with Karajan, later collaborating with Solti, Giulini, Abbado, Maazel and Ashkenazy among conductors, and with Martha Argerich, Isaac Stern and Joshua Bell in chamber music. But it is for solo performances of the Romantic repertoire (especially Chopin ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

in 1954, with the voice of Marilyn Horne (b. 1934) in the title role. Recommended Recording: Carmen, soloists, French Radio Chorus, French National Orchestra (cond) Lorin Maazel (Erato) Sounds Familiar ‘Beat Out Dat Rhythm’ In the film of Carmen Jones, based on Bizet’s opera, although the stars had their singing voices dubbed by opera singers, Pearl Bailey ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

the Chicago Symphony, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic, and has conducted regularly at the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Lorin Maazel | Contemporary | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

b. 1943 Latvian conductor Jansons studied at the Leningrad Conservatory and in Austria with Karajan before becoming associate (later associate principal) conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic 1973–97 and music director of the Oslo Philharmonic 1979–2000 (an orchestra whose international reputation he consolidated through tours and recordings) and the Pittsburgh Symphony 1997–2004, succeeding Maazel. He was then chief conductor of both ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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