Christian Thielemann
Language available : englishConductor Christian Thielemann has been a major force in both operatic and symphonic music in his native Germany, serving since 2012 as conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden. He is considered one of the world's top interpreters of the music of Wagner and Richard Strauss. Thielemann was born in what was then West Berlin on April 1, 1959. As a youth, he took lessons on several instruments, played viola in the German Youth Orchestra, and studied at Berlin's Hochschule für Musik. Thielemann's career began early as he landed posts as assistant to conductor Heinrich Hollreiser at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, when he was just 19, and then to Herbert von Karajan at the Berlin Philharmonic. He also served as an assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. In 1985, Thielemann got his first principal conductor post, with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. He held successively more important operatic posts, becoming general music director of the Nuremberg Opera in 1988 and rising to the same post at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1997. Although most of his activities were in Germany, he was principal guest conductor at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna in the '90s and made guest appearances with the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the San Francisco Opera, among other top companies abroad. Thielemann made his first conducting appearance at the Bayreuth Festival in 2000, and soon he became a favorite of festival director Wolfgang Wagner, grandson of composer Richard Wagner, to whose works Bayreuth has served as a kind of shrine. He became chief musical advisor at Bayreuth in 2008 and has continued to conduct Wagner performances there, although he left his formal post in 2021. In 2000, a letter appeared in the Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung quoting an anti-Semitic remark by an unnamed figure in Berlin's musical establishment and aimed at Barenboim's directorship of the Berlin State Opera. It was alleged that the statement had come from Thielemann, who denied it vociferously; Barenboim said that in the absence of solid evidence, he accepted Thielemann's claim. Whatever his political views, Thielemann qualifies as a cultural conservative; he rarely conducts music from later than the early 20th century, and this has held true even as more of his activities have been devoted to instrumental music. As chief conductor of the Münchener Philharmoniker ("Munich Philharmonic") from 2004 to 2011, and of the Staatskapelle Dresden ("Dresden State Orchestra") since 2012, he has emphasized German and Austrian music from Mozart to Bruckner in his repertory. He will leave the Staatskapelle Dresden in 2024. In 2015, Thielemann was in the running for the coveted post of music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, but orchestra members split between him and Andris Nelsons. Eventually, a third candidate, Kirill Petrenko, was appointed. Thielemann serves as director of the Salzburg Easter Festival, departing in 2021. He has made many recordings with the Münchener Philharmoniker and the Staatskapelle Dresden, most of them released on the Deutsche Grammophon label, and in 2019, he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic's popular annual New Year's Concert for the first time. Thielemann has continued to record prolifically with the Staatskapelle Dresden and increasingly often with the Vienna Philharmonic; with the latter group, he began a cycle of live performances of Bruckner symphonies on Sony Classical, the same label that had issued his Beethoven and Schumann cycles. In 2022, his recording of Bruckner's Symphony No. 2 in C minor appeared. By that time, his catalog comprised more than 75 recordings.
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Conductor Christian Thielemann has been a major force in both operatic and symphonic music in his native Germany, serving since 2012 as conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden. He is considered one of the world's top interpreters of the music of Wagner and Richard Strauss.
Thielemann was born in what was then West Berlin on April 1, 1959. As a youth, he took lessons on several instruments, played viola in the German Youth Orchestra, and studied at Berlin's Hochschule für Musik. Thielemann's career began early as he landed posts as assistant to conductor Heinrich Hollreiser at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, when he was just 19, and then to Herbert von Karajan at the Berlin Philharmonic. He also served as an assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. In 1985, Thielemann got his first principal conductor post, with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. He held successively more important operatic posts, becoming general music director of the Nuremberg Opera in 1988 and rising to the same post at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1997. Although most of his activities were in Germany, he was principal guest conductor at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna in the '90s and made guest appearances with the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the San Francisco Opera, among other top companies abroad.
Thielemann made his first conducting appearance at the Bayreuth Festival in 2000, and soon he became a favorite of festival director Wolfgang Wagner, grandson of composer Richard Wagner, to whose works Bayreuth has served as a kind of shrine. He became chief musical advisor at Bayreuth in 2008 and has continued to conduct Wagner performances there, although he left his formal post in 2021. In 2000, a letter appeared in the Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung quoting an anti-Semitic remark by an unnamed figure in Berlin's musical establishment and aimed at Barenboim's directorship of the Berlin State Opera. It was alleged that the statement had come from Thielemann, who denied it vociferously; Barenboim said that in the absence of solid evidence, he accepted Thielemann's claim. Whatever his political views, Thielemann qualifies as a cultural conservative; he rarely conducts music from later than the early 20th century, and this has held true even as more of his activities have been devoted to instrumental music.
As chief conductor of the Münchener Philharmoniker ("Munich Philharmonic") from 2004 to 2011, and of the Staatskapelle Dresden ("Dresden State Orchestra") since 2012, he has emphasized German and Austrian music from Mozart to Bruckner in his repertory. He will leave the Staatskapelle Dresden in 2024. In 2015, Thielemann was in the running for the coveted post of music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, but orchestra members split between him and Andris Nelsons. Eventually, a third candidate, Kirill Petrenko, was appointed. Thielemann serves as director of the Salzburg Easter Festival, departing in 2021. He has made many recordings with the Münchener Philharmoniker and the Staatskapelle Dresden, most of them released on the Deutsche Grammophon label, and in 2019, he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic's popular annual New Year's Concert for the first time. Thielemann has continued to record prolifically with the Staatskapelle Dresden and increasingly often with the Vienna Philharmonic; with the latter group, he began a cycle of live performances of Bruckner symphonies on Sony Classical, the same label that had issued his Beethoven and Schumann cycles. In 2022, his recording of Bruckner's Symphony No. 2 in C minor appeared. By that time, his catalog comprised more than 75 recordings.
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Bruckner: Symphony No.4 in E-flat Major, WAB 104 (Edition Haas)
Christian Thielemann
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 8 okt. 2021
Like his illustrious Bruckner colleagues of the past, Eugen Jochum, Günter Wand and Bernard Haitink, Christian Thielemann has performed one version af ...
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 (Edition Nowak)
Christian Thielemann
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 23 apr. 2021
Diapason d'or«Clearly Bruckner’s music is like the wind that bloweth where it listeth in a world far removed from capitals and concert halls. The music that Bruckn ...
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, WAB 102 (Edition Carragan)
Christian Thielemann
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 4 feb. 2022
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (Edition Haas)
Christian Thielemann
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 16 okt. 2020
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Schumann : Symphonies
Christian Thielemann
Symfonieën - Released by Sony Classical - Sony Music on 5 apr. 2019
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Beethoven: The Symphonies
Christian Thielemann
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 9 dec. 2011
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Strauss : Horn Concerto, Metamorphoses, Serenade, Sonatine No.1 (Live)
Christian Thielemann
Symfonische muziek - Released by Profil on 30 nov. 2018
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 & 9 "Choral"
Christian Thielemann
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 21 mei 2012
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Verdi : Messa da Requiem (Live)
Christian Thielemann
Koormuziek - Released by Profil on 15 mrt. 2019
5 de DiapasonYou hesitate to assign national characteristics to musical performances. After all, Arturo Toscanini was noted as both a Wagnerian and a Brahmsian. Ye ...
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, "Italian" (HD)
Christian Thielemann
Klassiek - Released by MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR on 24 mrt. 2017
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Ludwig van Beethoven : Symphonie n° 9
Christian Thielemann
Symfonische muziek - Released by Sony Classical on 9 dec. 2011
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-3
Christian Thielemann
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 21 mei 2012
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6
Christian Thielemann
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 21 mei 2012
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Pfitzner: Symhpony in C-Sharp Minor (HD)
Christian Thielemann
Symfonische muziek - Released by MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR on 24 mrt. 2017
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New Year's Concert 2019 (Neujahrskonzert 2019, Concert du Nouvel An 2019)
Christian Thielemann
Symfonische muziek - Released by Sony Classical on 7 jan. 2019
5 de DiapasonLike every year, the Vienna Musikverein welcomes the musicians of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to its great hall! German conductor Christian Thie ...
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Ludwig van Beethoven : Symphonies n° 3 & n° 4
Christian Thielemann
Symfonische muziek - Released by Sony Classical on 9 dec. 2011
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Ludwig van Beethoven : Symphonies n° 5 & n° 6
Christian Thielemann
Symfonische muziek - Released by Sony Classical on 9 dec. 2011
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Ludwig van Beethoven : Symphonies n° 7 & n° 8
Christian Thielemann
Symfonische muziek - Released by Sony Classical on 9 dec. 2011
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Pfitzner: Symphony in C-Sharp Minor Op. 36a
Christian Thielemann
Klassiek - Released by MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR on 24 mrt. 2017
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Neujahrskonzert 2019 / New Year's Concert 2019 / Concert du Nouvel An 2019
Christian Thielemann
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 1 feb. 2019
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Thielemann: Essentials
Christian Thielemann
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 8 feb. 2019
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