Michael Gielen
The German-born conductor Michael Gielen was a widely recognized specialist in the avant-garde music of Central Europe, with an impressive ability to digest and interpret even very complex scores. He was also a noted composer. Gielen was born in Dresden on July 20, 1927. An uncle on his mother's side was pianist and Arnold Schoenberg associate and interpreter Eduard Steuermann. Gielen's mother, Rose, was Jewish, and the family's peril deepened in the late 1930s. When his father, a stage director, found a position at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the family fled there in 1940. Gielen studied piano there, worked as a rehearsal pianist at his father's theater, and began performing works by Schoenberg (still rare enough in concert at the time) and others. In 1950, the family moved to Vienna, where Gielen once again worked for his father at the Burgtheater while organizing and conducting concerts of avant-garde music on the side. Gielen was a staff conductor at the Vienna State Opera from 1954 to 1960, music director of the Royal Opera of Stockholm from 1960 to 1965, and then conductor of the Cologne Radio Symphony, the Belgian National Opera, and the Dutch National Opera. Beginning in 1969, he was principal guest conductor of the South German Radio Symphony, and from 1977 to 1987 he was chief conductor of the Frankfurt Opera. By this time, Gielen was well known for his advocacy of contemporary music and for conducting the premieres of major works such as Ligeti's Requiem and several works by Karlheinz Stockhausen. He also spent six years (1980-1986) as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony, pushing that pops-oriented ensemble in a more progressive direction. From 1986 to 1999, Gielen served as music director of the SWF Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden (the Southwest German Radio Orchestra), identifying the group strongly with contemporary music through premieres of new works and appearances at the Donaueschinger Musiktage. He recorded extensively there for a variety of labels, conducting a complete cycle of Mahler's symphonies for the Haenssler label and remaining active well into the new century as permanent guest conductor of the SWF Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden, finally retiring in 2014. Over his entire career, Gielen composed music of his own; his output was not large but is well crafted, much of it written according to 12-tone techniques. Gielen died in Mondsee, Austria, on March 8, 2019.
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Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Classical - Lançado por haenssler CLASSIC em 4 de out. de 2011
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BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 8 / Piano Concerto No. 3 / Grosse Fugue
SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks, Stefan Litwin, Michael Gielen
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 1 de jan. de 2000
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RAVEL: Daphnis et Chloe / POULENC: Les Biches (Les Ballets Russes, Vol. 2)
Europe Choir Academy, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Marcello Viotti, Michael Gielen
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 1 de jan. de 2000
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BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 in D major / Haydn Variations
SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks, Michael Gielen
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 1 de jan. de 2006
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Nono: Variazioni, A Carlo Scarpa, No Hay Cominos
Michael Gielen, Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks
Classical - Lançado por naïve classique em 1 de jan. de 1990
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BRAHMS: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4
SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks, Michael Gielen
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 1 de jan. de 2006
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Donaueschinger Musiktage 1990 - World Premiere Recordings (Digitally Remastered)
Claudia Eder, Roberto Fabbriciani, Pietro Borgonovo
Classical - Lançado por EMG Classical em 4 de jan. de 2011
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Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Totentanz & Malédiction
Alfred Brendel, Michael Gielen, Wiener Symphoniker
Concertos - Lançado por Vox em 1 de jan. de 1996
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Música de España: Albéniz - Liszt - Chabrier
Orquesta de la Sociedad de Música de Viena, Michael Gielen, Felicja Blumenthal
Miscellaneous - Lançado por MARFER em 5 de mai. de 1974
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SCRIABIN: Symphony No. 3, Op. 43 / BUSONI: Berceuse elegiaque, Op. 42
SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks, Michael Gielen
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 1 de jan. de 1998
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Rachmaninoff: Concierto para piano No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Orquesta de la Sociedad de Música de Viena, Michael Gielen, Felicja Blumenthal
Classical - Lançado por MARFER em 30 de set. de 1976
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Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
Classical - Lançado por ARTE NOVA Classics em 18 de set. de 1997
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Bartok: Concerto For Piano And Orchestra No. 3
Classical - Lançado por ARTE NOVA Classics em 26 de jun. de 1995
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Gluck: Orpheus und Eurydike
Michael Gielen, Grosses Wiener Runfunkorchester, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Emmy Loose, Sena Jurinac
Opera - Lançado por OperaPrima em 1 de jan. de 2013
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Schubert: Rosamunde, Concert Piece For Violin And Orch., Symphony No. 3
Classical - Lançado por ARTE NOVA Classics em 23 de jun. de 1995
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Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3
Gyorgy Sandor, South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden, Rolf Reinhardt, Wiener Symphoniker, Michael Gielen
Concertos - Lançado por Vox em 1 de jan. de 1992
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Chopin, Schubert & Franck: Concertos for Piano & Orchestra
Michael Gielen, Vienna Volksoper Orchestra, Orazio Frugoni, Alfred Brendel
Classical - Lançado por Jube Classic em 14 de out. de 2022
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3 Konzerte
Johannes Ernst, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, MDR-Sinfonieorchester, Michael Gielen, Peter Hirsch, Gabriel Feltz
Classical - Lançado por Genuin em 6 de set. de 2019
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Elliott Carter: Concerto For Piano And Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por ARTE NOVA Classics em 1 de abr. de 1992
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Piano Concertos By Tchaikovsky & Arensky
Orchestra Of The Vienna Musikgesselschaft, Felicja Blumental, Michael Gielen
Concertos - Lançado por Brana Records em 16 de mai. de 2006
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Piano Concertos By Rachmaninoff & Hummel
Orchestra Of The Vienna Musikgesselschaft, Michael Gielen, Felicja Blumental
Concertos - Lançado por Brana Records em 23 de mai. de 2006
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