Andrew Manze
Language available : englishAndrew Manze has had dual careers, one in early music as a violinist, the other as a conductor in mainstream symphonic repertory. As a presenter on BBC radio, Manze has also been a key communicator between classical musicians and the general British public. Manze was born on April 14, 1965, in Beckenham, near London. His education began at Cambridge, where he studied Classics. He then moved on to music studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, studying with both Simon Standage and Marie Leonhardt. Manze then joined the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, remaining there until 1993. The following year, he began collaborating with harpsichordist Richard Egarr. One of their major releases presented a 1712 collection of violin sonatas by composer Jean-Féry Rebel. Meanwhile, Manze formed the group Romanesca with harpsichordist John Toll and lutenist Nigel North; the trio specialized in music of the 17th century. In 1996, Manze was appointed the associate director and concertmaster of the Baroque group The Academy of Ancient Music. From 2003-2007, he was the music director of The English Concert. He became a popular presenter on BBC Radio and made his debut with the BBC Proms concerts in 1998. That concert was televised nationally, with Manze playing concertos by Pergolesi, Bach, Vivaldi, and Mozart, and introducing the public to the enthusiasm and directness of the new ways of performing Baroque and Classical music. He is known for his freedom of ornamentation, bringing an improvisatory excitement to his concerts. Manze was long a busy soloist on the international concert scene, appearing in one season with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the early music group Tafelmusik, and the Berlin Philharmonic. As Manze's career progressed, he shifted mostly to conducting. Increasingly often in the 2000s and 2010s, Manze turned to mainstream Romantic and contemporary repertory, leading traditional symphony orchestras rather than early music ensembles. From 2006 to 2014, he was the chief conductor of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. After a sequence of guest appearances with top German, English, and American orchestras, he was appointed chief conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hannover, Germany, in 2014, and his contract there has been extended through 2023. He has taken up residence in Germany. Recording for the Harmonia Mundi label, Manze won Gramophone, Edison, and Cannes Classical awards for his recording with Romanesca of Biber's flashy and mystical violin sonatas. His playing of Vivaldi's newly discovered "Manchester" sonatas won the Premio Internazionale del Disco Vivaldi Antica Italiana. His album Phantasticus won the Cannes Classical Award and a Diapason d'Or. He continued to record Baroque music, issuing his second version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in 2010, but he has increasingly been active as a conductor on recordings. The year 2016 saw the beginning of a Manze-led cycle of Ralph Vaughan Williams' symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2018, he issued no fewer than nine recordings as a conductor and slowed only slightly in 2019 and 2020, when he led the NDR Radiophilharmonie in a recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, and Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92. In addition to conducting, Manze has been active as a teacher, writer, and editor. He was honored in 2011 with Sweden's Rudolf Schock Prize, previously bestowed upon such luminaries as Gidon Kremer, György Ligeti, and Kaija Saariaho. Manze is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.
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Andrew Manze has had dual careers, one in early music as a violinist, the other as a conductor in mainstream symphonic repertory. As a presenter on BBC radio, Manze has also been a key communicator between classical musicians and the general British public.
Manze was born on April 14, 1965, in Beckenham, near London. His education began at Cambridge, where he studied Classics. He then moved on to music studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, studying with both Simon Standage and Marie Leonhardt. Manze then joined the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, remaining there until 1993. The following year, he began collaborating with harpsichordist Richard Egarr. One of their major releases presented a 1712 collection of violin sonatas by composer Jean-Féry Rebel. Meanwhile, Manze formed the group Romanesca with harpsichordist John Toll and lutenist Nigel North; the trio specialized in music of the 17th century. In 1996, Manze was appointed the associate director and concertmaster of the Baroque group The Academy of Ancient Music. From 2003-2007, he was the music director of The English Concert.
He became a popular presenter on BBC Radio and made his debut with the BBC Proms concerts in 1998. That concert was televised nationally, with Manze playing concertos by Pergolesi, Bach, Vivaldi, and Mozart, and introducing the public to the enthusiasm and directness of the new ways of performing Baroque and Classical music. He is known for his freedom of ornamentation, bringing an improvisatory excitement to his concerts. Manze was long a busy soloist on the international concert scene, appearing in one season with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the early music group Tafelmusik, and the Berlin Philharmonic.
As Manze's career progressed, he shifted mostly to conducting. Increasingly often in the 2000s and 2010s, Manze turned to mainstream Romantic and contemporary repertory, leading traditional symphony orchestras rather than early music ensembles. From 2006 to 2014, he was the chief conductor of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. After a sequence of guest appearances with top German, English, and American orchestras, he was appointed chief conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hannover, Germany, in 2014, and his contract there has been extended through 2023. He has taken up residence in Germany.
Recording for the Harmonia Mundi label, Manze won Gramophone, Edison, and Cannes Classical awards for his recording with Romanesca of Biber's flashy and mystical violin sonatas. His playing of Vivaldi's newly discovered "Manchester" sonatas won the Premio Internazionale del Disco Vivaldi Antica Italiana. His album Phantasticus won the Cannes Classical Award and a Diapason d'Or. He continued to record Baroque music, issuing his second version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in 2010, but he has increasingly been active as a conductor on recordings. The year 2016 saw the beginning of a Manze-led cycle of Ralph Vaughan Williams' symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2018, he issued no fewer than nine recordings as a conductor and slowed only slightly in 2019 and 2020, when he led the NDR Radiophilharmonie in a recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, and Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92.
In addition to conducting, Manze has been active as a teacher, writer, and editor. He was honored in 2011 with Sweden's Rudolf Schock Prize, previously bestowed upon such luminaries as Gidon Kremer, György Ligeti, and Kaija Saariaho. Manze is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.
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Piano Concertos Nos. 19 & 27, Rondo K. 386
Andrew Manze
Klassiek - Released by Linn Records on 28 aug. 2020
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Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5 / Symphony No.6
Andrew Manze
Symfonische muziek - Released by Onyx Classics on 23 mrt. 2018
Gramophone Editor's ChoiceEven if they succeed one another by only five years, Vaughan Williams’ Fifth and Sixth Symphonies—among his more impressive masterworks&md ...
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Johann Helmich Roman : Drottningholmusiken (Music for a Royal Wedding)
Andrew Manze
Symfonische muziek - Released by BIS on 29 jun. 2010
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Symphonies 1-4, Cello Concerto in A
Andrew Manze
Symfonische muziek - Released by harmonia mundi on 14 nov. 2006
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J.S. Bach: Solo & Double Violin Concertos (Andrew Manze)
Andrew Manze
Klassiek - Released by harmonia mundi on 1 jan. 1997
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Vaughan Williams: Lark Ascending, A Sea Symphony (Symphony No1)
Andrew Manze
Klassiek - Released by Onyx Classics on 30 nov. 2018
Looking at it closely, Vaughan Williams' first symphony, A Sea Symphony, is his first major work; the composer, who was never in a hurry, was already ...
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Bach: Solo & Double Violin Concertos
Andrew Manze
Klassiek - Released by harmonia mundi on 1 jan. 1997
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Concertos pour flûte
Andrew Manze
Concertmuziek - Released by Chandos on 1 jan. 1993
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G.A Pandolfi Mealli: Violin Sonatas (Andrew Manze)
Andrew Manze
Klassiek - Released by Channel Classics Records on 1 jan. 1994
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Mozart: Violin Sonatas, 1781
Andrew Manze
Klassiek - Released by harmonia mundi on 3 okt. 2005
With the exception of the fragmentary Sonata in C major, K. 403, here, Artaria published these sonatas by Mozart in 1781 as being for piano with violi ...
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Albinoni: Concertos Op.9 Nos.1-12
Andrew Manze
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1999
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Biber: The Rosary Sonatas
Andrew Manze
Klassiek - Released by harmonia mundi on 17 aug. 2005
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Corelli: Violin Sonatas, Op. 5 (Andrew Manze & Richard Egarr)
Andrew Manze
Klassiek - Released by harmonia mundi on 21 dec. 2012
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Vivaldi: Concert for the Prince of Poland
Andrew Manze
Concertmuziek - Released by harmonia mundi on 10 feb. 1998
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Mendelssohn : Symphonies No. 1 & 3
Andrew Manze
Klassiek - Released by PentaTone on 3 mrt. 2017
4 étoiles ClassicaMendelssohn’s warmly lyrical and evocative Scottish symphony is paired with his confident and precocious first symphony for the first in a series of r ...
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Vivaldi: Violin Concertos Op.6; Concerto "The Cuckoo"
Andrew Manze
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 2000
Here we have a disc recorded in July of 1996 but not released until September of 2000. Additionally, we have Christopher Hogwood, a conductor who led ...
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Biber: The Rosary Sonatas (Andrew Manze & Richard Egarr)
Andrew Manze
Klassiek - Released by harmonia mundi on 17 aug. 2005
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The Art of the Violin
Andrew Manze
Klassiek - Released by harmonia mundi on 10 nov. 2009
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Tartini: The Devil's Sonata and other works (Andrew Manze)
Andrew Manze
Kamermuziek - Released by harmonia mundi on 1 dec. 1980
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Brahms: Complete Symphonies
Andrew Manze
Symfonische muziek - Released by CPO on 6 mrt. 2012
One might expect Andrew Manze's interpretations of Johannes Brahms' four symphonies to adhere to ideas of the movement for historically informed perfo ...
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Lars-Erik Larsson : Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Andrew Manze
Symfonische muziek - Released by CPO on 3 jun. 2014
4 étoiles Classica16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo