Teodor Currentzis
Language available : englishTeodor Currentzis is a conductor famed for the unorthodox operatic interpretations he has issued from the relatively remote cities of Novosibirsk and Perm. The Guardian has called him "the conducting equivalent of Glenn Gould morphed with Kurt Cobain." Born in Athens on February 24, 1972, Currentzis studied piano and violin as a child. A prodigy, he entered Greece's National Conservatory at 12 as a violinist, switching to composition several years later. In 1994, he moved to Russia and began studying conducting with the nonagenarian Ilya Musin at the State Conservatory in St. Petersburg, graduating in 1998. He pointed out that with Greece's long history of military dictatorship, including the one in force when he was born, a move to Russia was in no way surprising, and indeed, he has become an icon of intellectual freedom in the music sphere among progressive forces in his adopted country. He is a naturalized Russian citizen. In 2004, while he held the position of music director of the Novosibirsk State Opera and Orchestra, Currentzis founded and became the artistic director of MusicAeterna, leading both the choir and ensemble in period-style performances. In 2006, he also started the Territoria Modern Art Festival in Moscow. Remaining in Novosibirsk until 2010, Currentzis became the artistic director of the Perm State Opera and Ballet Theater. He was the recipient of the Golden Mask theatrical award, and he received awards for his performances of Purcell's The Indian Queen, Berg's Wozzeck, Prokofiev's Cinderella, and Mozart's Le nozze de Figaro. Currentzis remains the director of MusicAeterna and has toured Europe with new productions of Purcell's The Indian Queen and other Baroque operas. Increasingly renowned in western Europe, he became the chief conductor of the new SWR Sinfonieorchester in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2018. Currentzis has made several recordings of the Alpha label, beginning in 2008, and including one of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 14, Op. 135, one of his few non-operatic releases. However, it is his approach to Mozart that has made headlines and attracted the attention of the multinational Sony label. With blistering tempi, furious attacks influenced by his historical Baroque performance background, and an international group of singers handpicked to keep up with him, Currentzis' cycle of Mozart operas (Don Giovanni was recorded in Perm in 2016) has excited, and to an extent polarized, critics and listeners. He has increasingly often recorded instrumental music with the MusicAeterna Orchestra, issuing performances of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 ("Pathétique"), in 2017, Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in A minor in 2018, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, in 2020. That year, Currentzis' early recording of Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K. 626, was reissued by the Alpha label.
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Teodor Currentzis is a conductor famed for the unorthodox operatic interpretations he has issued from the relatively remote cities of Novosibirsk and Perm. The Guardian has called him "the conducting equivalent of Glenn Gould morphed with Kurt Cobain."
Born in Athens on February 24, 1972, Currentzis studied piano and violin as a child. A prodigy, he entered Greece's National Conservatory at 12 as a violinist, switching to composition several years later. In 1994, he moved to Russia and began studying conducting with the nonagenarian Ilya Musin at the State Conservatory in St. Petersburg, graduating in 1998. He pointed out that with Greece's long history of military dictatorship, including the one in force when he was born, a move to Russia was in no way surprising, and indeed, he has become an icon of intellectual freedom in the music sphere among progressive forces in his adopted country. He is a naturalized Russian citizen.
In 2004, while he held the position of music director of the Novosibirsk State Opera and Orchestra, Currentzis founded and became the artistic director of MusicAeterna, leading both the choir and ensemble in period-style performances. In 2006, he also started the Territoria Modern Art Festival in Moscow. Remaining in Novosibirsk until 2010, Currentzis became the artistic director of the Perm State Opera and Ballet Theater. He was the recipient of the Golden Mask theatrical award, and he received awards for his performances of Purcell's The Indian Queen, Berg's Wozzeck, Prokofiev's Cinderella, and Mozart's Le nozze de Figaro. Currentzis remains the director of MusicAeterna and has toured Europe with new productions of Purcell's The Indian Queen and other Baroque operas. Increasingly renowned in western Europe, he became the chief conductor of the new SWR Sinfonieorchester in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2018.
Currentzis has made several recordings of the Alpha label, beginning in 2008, and including one of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 14, Op. 135, one of his few non-operatic releases. However, it is his approach to Mozart that has made headlines and attracted the attention of the multinational Sony label. With blistering tempi, furious attacks influenced by his historical Baroque performance background, and an international group of singers handpicked to keep up with him, Currentzis' cycle of Mozart operas (Don Giovanni was recorded in Perm in 2016) has excited, and to an extent polarized, critics and listeners. He has increasingly often recorded instrumental music with the MusicAeterna Orchestra, issuing performances of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 ("Pathétique"), in 2017, Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in A minor in 2018, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, in 2020. That year, Currentzis' early recording of Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K. 626, was reissued by the Alpha label.
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Stravinsky : Le Sacre du Printemps
Teodor Currentzis
Balletten - Released by Sony Classical on 9 okt. 2015
4F de Télérama5 de DiapasonIn describing his interpretation of Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps, Teodor Currentzis emphasizes the essential Russian origins of the music, ...
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Tchaikovsky : Symphony No.6
Teodor Currentzis
Symfonieën - Released by Sony Classical on 18 aug. 2017
Choc de ClassicaDiapason d'or / ArteGramophone Record of the Month5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikAn album, a symphony: you would think that we had returned to the days of the Long Play, and the era of Mravinsky, Doráti, Markevitch, Karajan as well ...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Le Nozze di Figaro
Teodor Currentzis
Opera - Released by Sony Classical on 3 feb. 2014
4F de Télérama4 étoiles ClassicaHi-Res AudioThere are many splendid recordings of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro that appeal to every taste, but there are relatively few that can be categorized as ...
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Mahler : Symphony No. 6
Teodor Currentzis
Symfonieën - Released by Sony Classical on 26 okt. 2018
5 de DiapasonGramophone Editor's ChoiceWith Symphony No.6 in A Minor "Tragic" written in 1904 (the title, for once, is not a publisher's gimmick, but was indeed given by Mahler in the progr ...
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Mozart: Don Giovanni
Teodor Currentzis
Volledige opera's - Released by Sony Classical on 4 nov. 2016
The conductor Teodor Currentzis has shaken up the operatic world with a series of Mozart recordings made with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Perm Ope ...
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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto - Stravinsky: Les Noces
Teodor Currentzis
Symfonische muziek - Released by Sony Classical on 8 jan. 2016
Qobuzissime5 de DiapasonIconoclastic conductor Teodor Currentzis and his MusicAeterna orchestra, way out in Perm (the hometown of Diaghilev, among others), are never dull in ...
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Rameau - The Sound of Light
Teodor Currentzis
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 17 okt. 2014
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Fragments Part I - "Traviata"
Teodor Currentzis
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 4 dec. 2020
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Mozart: Requiem
Teodor Currentzis
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 14 mrt. 2011
This release stands out from among both the dozens or hundreds of available recordings of Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K. 626, and from among the reco ...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Le nozze di Figaro (Édition 5.1)
Teodor Currentzis
Opera - Released by Sony Classical on 3 feb. 2014
Hi-Res AudioThere are many splendid recordings of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro that appeal to every taste, but there are relatively few that can be categorized as ...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Così fan tutte
Teodor Currentzis
Volledige opera's - Released by Sony Classical on 14 nov. 2014
4F de TéléramaGreco-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis had caused quite a controversy in the operatic world. Settling in the provincial city of Perm, he formed a h ...
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Didon et Enée
Teodor Currentzis
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 jan. 2008
It's difficult to know where to begin enumerating the qualities that make this astonishing performance of Dido and Aeneas unique. The most obvious is ...
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Teodor Currentzis
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 9 apr. 2021
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Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op. 35 in D Major/II. Canzonetta. Andante
Teodor Currentzis
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 27 nov. 2015
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Highlights)
Teodor Currentzis
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 17 okt. 2014
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Mozart: Così fan tutte (Highlights)
Teodor Currentzis
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 9 okt. 2015
You may have heard about the radical Mozart performances coming out of the provincial city of Perm, Russia, led by conductor Teodor Currentzis. He's i ...
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Highlights)
Teodor Currentzis
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 17 okt. 2014
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Mozart: Così fan tutte (Highlights)
Teodor Currentzis
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 9 okt. 2015
You may have heard about the radical Mozart performances coming out of the provincial city of Perm, Russia, led by conductor Teodor Currentzis. He's i ...
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Teodor Currentzis
Klassiek - Released by Sony Classical on 3 apr. 2020
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Chostakovitch : Symphonie n°14
Teodor Currentzis
Symfonische muziek - Released by Alpha Classics on 29 mrt. 2010
Shostakovich wrote his Fourteenth Symphony, one of his most relentlessly dark-hued works, in 1969 at a point when he felt he had essentially wasted hi ...
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