Marek Janowski
Conductor Marek Janowski has forged a solid, mostly European-based career by largely disengaging himself from the fast-track musical life. Disturbed by the dominance of regietheater in Europe, he vacated the opera pit in the early 1990s to concentrate on his symphonic repertory. In the new millennium, he assumed directorships of several orchestras and returned to the operatic repertoire.
Janowski was born in Warsaw on February 18, 1939. After completing his studies, he applied himself to the 19th century regimen that had produced the best-prepared conductors. Serving as a répétiteur in Aachen, Germany, for a year, Janowski moved to a similar position in Cologne for two seasons. In two years at Düsseldorf, beginning in 1964, he was afforded the opportunity to conduct some performances. After returning to Cologne as first Kapellmeister, he was engaged by Rolf Liebermann in Hamburg. Later, during directorships in Freiburg and Dortmund, Janowski appeared as a guest conductor in Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich. In the late '70s, Janowski began to appear in American theaters, notably the Metropolitan Opera, and in Chicago and San Francisco. In 1984, he accepted the directorship of the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique in Paris (later known as the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France). During his 16 years with the Paris orchestra, Janowski raised performance standards and broadened his repertoire, acquiring considerable fluency in a variety of French works. Aside from four years when he also served as music director for Cologne's Gürzenich-Orchester, Janowski devoted himself to Paris, all the while paring down his opera activities.
Appreciation for certain French composers, such as Messiaen, Roussel, d'Indy, and Dutilleux, informed his programming choices for Monte Carlo. With the Dresden Philharmonic, Janowski's other 2001 appointment, a long-term relationship hinged upon the promised construction of a new concert hall. In 2008, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin offered him the position of artistic director for life, after serving six years in that position; Janowski remained in this position until 2016. He joined the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande as music director in 2005, having filled similar positions with Orchestre Philharmonie de Monte-Carlo (2000-2005) and the Dresden Philharmonic (2001-2003). In 2018, the Dresden Philharmonic announced Janowski's return as chief conductor beginning in 2019.
Janowski's discography holds estimable recordings of Strauss' Die schweigsame Frau, Penderecki's The Devils of Loudon, Wagner's Ring, Euryanthe, Oberon, and Hindemith's Die Harmonie der Welt. In addition to the symphonies of Roussel, his orchestral recordings include Lutoslawski's Concerto for orchestra and Saint-Saëns' Symphony No. 3. Following his break from conducting opera in the 1990s, Janowski returned to the genre in the 2010s with several recordings of Wagner on the PentaTone Classics label, including a new recording of the composer's Ring Cycle in 2016.
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Wagner : Overtures, Preludes & Orchestral (Excerpts)
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
Classical - Lançado por PENTATONE em 1 de set. de 2016
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Schumann: Complete Symphonies
Dresdner Philharmonie, Marek Janowski
Symphonies - Lançado por PENTATONE em 5 de abr. de 2024
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R. Strauss: Symphonia Domestica & Die Tageszeiten
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
Classical - Lançado por PentaTone em 2 de jun. de 2015
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Brahms: Complete Symphonies
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski
Classical - Lançado por PENTATONE em 11 de dez. de 2020
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STRAUSS, R.: 4 Last Songs / Orchestral Songs (Isokoski)
Soile Isokoski, Berlin Rundfunkorchester, Marek Janowski
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Lançado por Ondine em 1 de jan. de 2002
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Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No.1 Dvorak: Violin Concerto, Romance
Arabella Steinbacher, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
Violin Concertos - Lançado por PENTATONE em 1 de jan. de 2009
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Bartok : The Two Violin Concertos
Arabella Steinbacher, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski
Classical - Lançado por PENTATONE em 24 de ago. de 2010
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique - Le roi Lear
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski
Classical - Lançado por PENTATONE em 1 de jun. de 2010
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Brahms : Ein deutsches Requiem (Un Requiem allemand)
Camilla Tilling, Detlef Roth, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
Classical - Lançado por PENTATONE em 28 de set. de 2010
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FRANCK: Symphony in D minor / CHAUSSON: Symphony in B flat major
Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski
Classical - Lançado por PENTATONE em 1 de jan. de 2006
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D'Indy : Symphonie cévénole - Saint-Saëns : Symphonie No. 2 - Chausson : Soir de fête
Martin Helmchen, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski
Classical - Lançado por PENTATONE em 1 de set. de 2011
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Saint-Saëns, Poulenc, Infante & Ravel : Piano Works - Apex (- Apex)
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics International em 1 de mai. de 2005
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Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski
Classical - Lançado por PentaTone em 1 de jan. de 2007
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Richard Wagner : Die Walküre
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Opera - Lançado por PENTATONE em 1 de jul. de 2013
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (1890 Version)
Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski
Classical - Lançado por PENTATONE em 16 de nov. de 2010
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R. Strauss: An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64, TrV 233
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski
Classical - Lançado por PentaTone em 1 de jul. de 2009
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski
Classical - Lançado por PENTATONE em 16 de mai. de 2000
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WEBER, C.M. von: Euryanthe [Opera] (Norman)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Marek Janowski
Full Operas - Lançado por Eterna em 1 de jan. de 1976
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