Alexander Baillie
Alexander Baillie is one of those rare musicians who began playing his instrument at a relatively late age -- 12, in his case -- and developed quickly enough to win second prize in a major competition by age 22, the prestigious Casals Competition (1978). Baillie has since become one of the leading English cellists of his generation, performing with equal success as a soloist and chamber music player. He has also become a prominent recording artist, and his repertory is broad, taking in standards by Beethoven, Brahms, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Britten, as well as contemporary works, which he has premiered, by Lutoslawski, Penderecki, Henze, Schnittke, Takemitsu, Richard Rodney Bennett, Colin Matthews, and Mark-Anthony Turnage. Baillie was a member of the now-defunct chamber orchestra Fires of London and is a member of the Villiers Piano Quartet. He has recorded for a variety of labels, including Naxos, ASV, Nimbus, Lyrita, Regent, Unicorn-Kanchana, and Cala Records.
Alexander Baillie was born in Stockport, England, on January 6, 1956. As a late bloomer he quickly advanced and enrolled at London's Royal College of Music when he was 16. His teachers there included Joan Dickson and Anna Shuttleworth. From 1975-1978, he studied at Vienna's Hochschule für Musik with André Navarra, and later teachers included Mstislav Rostropovich and the cellist who first inspired him to take up his instrument, Jacqueline du Pré.
Baillie's debut recital was in prestigious quarters, London's Wigmore Hall, in 1978. Three years later he gave an acclaimed account of Dutilleux's Tout un monde lointain, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Mark Elder, as his orchestral debut.
In 1982 Baillie took second prize in the Bavarian Radio ARD competition in Munich. By the mid-'80s, he was an international figure, regularly appearing with major orchestras and in recitals, often paired up with pianists Piers Lane, Kathron Sturrock, and (later) James Lisney. Among his earliest recordings was a CD of cello sonatas (with Lane on piano) by Prokofiev (Op. 119) and Shostakovich (Op. 40) on the Unicorn-Kanchana label.
Baillie joined the faculties of two prestigious music schools: the RCM (1994) and the Bremen-based Hochschule für Künste (1995). Throughout the 1990s and early years of the new century he has continued to regularly concertize, often as a member of the Villiers Piano Quartet. Among Baillie's newer recordings is the ambitious 2008 Regent CD set of the complete Beethoven Works for Cello and Piano with pianist James Lisney.
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Discographie
18 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Holst: A Winter Idyll - Elegy - Indra - A Song of the Night - Sita Interlude - Invocation - The Lure - Morning of the Year Dances
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorraine McAslan, Alexander Baillie, London Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton
Classique - Paru chez Lyrita le 1 janv. 1993
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Respighi: Ballad of the Gnomes and Three Botticelli Pictures
Leslie Person, Alexander Baillie
Classique - Paru chez Signum-Cala le 10 mars 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The British Cello
Alexander Baillie, John Thwaites
Musique de chambre - Paru chez SOMM Recordings le 20 oct. 2017
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Headington: Piano Concerto; Serenade; The Healing Fountain
Gordon Fergus-Thompson, Andrew Carwood, Alexander Baillie, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury
Classique - Paru chez Decca (UMO) le 1 janv. 1997
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Andante from Cello Sonata No.1 (Single)
Alexander Baillie, Nigel Yandell
Musique de chambre - Paru chez First Hand Records le 17 nov. 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Fauré, Crosse & Ravel: Works for Cello & Piano
Alexander Baillie, Nigel Yandell
Musique de chambre - Paru chez First Hand Records le 1 mars 2024
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
RAWSTHORNE: Cello Concerto / Oboe Concerto / Symphonic Studies
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stéphane Rancourt, Alexander Baillie, David Lloyd-Jones
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 16 janv. 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Stevens: Cello Concerto - A Symphony of Liberation
Alexander Baillie, Sir Edward Downes, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez Meridian Records le 12 mai 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Twentieth-Century Sonatas for Cello and Piano
Alexander Baillie, John Thwaites
Musique de chambre - Paru chez SOMM Recordings le 8 oct. 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Stanford: Cello Concerto & Piano Concerto No. 3
Alexander Baillie, Malcolm Binns
Musique concertante - Paru chez Lyrita le 1 juin 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms: Cello Sonatas & 4 Serious Songs, Op. 121
Alexander Baillie, John Thwaites
Musique de chambre - Paru chez SOMM Recordings le 26 août 2016
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Minna Keal: Cello Concerto & Ballade
Alexander Baillie, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Classique - Paru chez NMC Recordings le 1 sept. 1997
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Wavesongs
Alexander Baillie, Andrew Ball
Musique de chambre - Paru chez NMC Recordings le 1 oct. 1994
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Stanford: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 171 & Cello Concerto in D Minor
Alexander Baillie, Malcolm Binns, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite
Classique - Paru chez Lyrita le 24 sept. 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Watson: Cello Concerto
Alexander Baillie, Hallé Orchestra, David Angus
Classique - Paru chez Herald le 1 janv. 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Homeward Bound from Wavesongs (Single)
Alexander Baillie, Nigel Yandell
Musique de chambre - Paru chez First Hand Records le 19 janv. 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Yerkesh Shakeyev: Blossom
Alexander Baillie, John Lenehan
Classique - Paru chez Yerkesh Shakeyev le 12 nov. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5/Cello Concerto
Alexander Baillie, Neil Deland
Classique - Paru chez CarltonClassics le 1 janv. 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo