Donald Runnicles
Conductor Donald Runnicles has been equally active in opera and concert music in Europe and the U.S. He has amassed a large recording catalog with the various major ensembles he has led.
Runnicles was born on November 16, 1954, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was a furniture supply company director who also played the organ and directed a choir. Runnicles attended George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and then moved to George Watson's College, which offered music courses. He studied music at the University of Edinburgh and St. John's College, Cambridge, going on for further studies at the London Opera Centre. He worked as a vocal coach in Mannheim, Germany, and became Generalmusikdirector of the city of Freiburg, Germany, in 1989. Runnicles soaked up the German operatic tradition, and he worked mostly as an opera conductor for the first years of his career. In 1990, he conducted Wagner's Ring Cycle with the San Francisco Opera, and two years later, he was appointed the company's music director. He remained in that post through 2009 and has remained active as a guest conductor. Runnicles made his recording debut in 1994 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, leading Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel; that album appeared on the Teldec label, and Runnicles was associated with that label for many years.
After the turn of the century, Runnicles was active increasingly often as a conductor of instrumental music. From 2001 to 2007, he was the principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York. From 2009 to 2016, Runnicles served as the chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He became the principal guest conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 2001, continuing to hold that position as of the early 2020s through the tenures of several music directors. Runnicles became the music director of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Colorado in 2005, and he continued to hold that position as of the early 2020s as well. In 2007, Runnicles was appointed Generalmusikdirektor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, assuming the podium in 2009; his contract there has been extended through 2027. Runnicles has a large recording catalog, much of it made with the above-named groups. In addition to Telarc, he has recorded for major labels such as Decca, Hyperion, and Sony Classical. He moved to Reference Recordings in 2023, leading the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra in support of pianist Garrick Ohlsson in the complete piano concertos of Beethoven.
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18 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Richard Wagner : Airs d'opéras - Wesendonck Lieder
Jonas Kaufmann, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 22 août 2006
Choc Classica de l'annéeChoc de ClassicaDiapason d'orGramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Orff: Carmina Burana
Classique - Paru chez Telarc le 23 oct. 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 2 déc. 2012
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Aribert Reimann : L'invisible (Live)
Opéra - Paru chez Oehms Classics le 11 mai 2018
5 étoiles de Classica24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Górecki: Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"
Christine Brewer, Donald Runnicles, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez Telarc le 24 mars 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Humperdinck : Hänsel und Gretel
Opéra - Paru chez Warner Classics International le 1 oct. 1993
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bellini : I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Opéra - Paru chez Warner Classics International le 1 juin 1999
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Richard Wagner : Airs d'opéras - Wesendonck Lieder
Jonas Kaufmann, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 22 août 2006
Choc Classica de l'annéeChoc de ClassicaDiapason d'orGramophone Editor's Choice16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Britannia
Donald Runnicles, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez Telarc le 23 oct. 2007
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Strauss: Four Last Songs & Death and Transfiguration - Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Donald Runnicles, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Christine Brewer
Classique - Paru chez Telarc le 15 août 2006
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James MacMillan: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 4
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles, Vadim Repin
Classique - Paru chez Onyx Classics le 21 oct. 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Symphony At The Opera - Great Opera Interludes
Classique - Paru chez Arabesque Recordings le 6 mai 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Robert D. Levin Edition)
Classique - Paru chez Telarc le 23 août 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral"
Donald Runnicles, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Mary Dunleavy, Elizabeth Bishop, Stephen Gould, Alastair Miles
Classique - Paru chez Telarc le 1 sept. 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39 & 41 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Musique symphonique - Paru chez St. Luke's Collection le 1 janv. 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Weihnachten mit "Hänsel und Gretel"
Donald Runnicles, Jennifer Larmore, Ruth Ziesak, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Classique - Paru chez Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group le 18 août 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 2 déc. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Great Strauss Scenes
Christine Brewer, Donald Runnicles, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Christine Brewer, Donald Runnicles, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez Telarc le 1 janv. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo