Laurence Cummings
Laurence Cummings has amassed a large catalog of recordings both as a harpsichordist and, increasingly often during his later career, as a conductor of the Academy of Ancient Music and other ensembles. Known as a specialist in the music of Handel, he has also recorded music by many other Baroque composers.
Cummings was born in Birmingham, England, in 1968. He attended the Solihull School in the West Midlands and then went on to Christ Church College at Oxford University. His choice of a musical career was cemented as he attended the Royal College of Music in London, at first focusing on the harpsichord. Among his teachers was Jill Severs. Soon, Cummings was landing continuo slots with leading early music groups in Britain and beyond, including The Sixteen, Les Arts Florissants, and the Gabrieli Consort. He made his recording debut in 1995 as a solo harpsichordist, issuing an album of suites by Louis Couperin on the Naxos label. Cummings recorded several more albums of harpsichord music on Naxos in the late '90s and early 2000s.
In the new century, Cummings became increasingly interested in conducting. His album debut as a conductor came on the BIS label in 2001, with a recording of Handel's Gloria (rediscovered only that year) and Dixit Dominus, HWV 232. Cummings has conducted both early music groups, including The English Concert, the Irish Baroque Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and conventional ensembles such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Ulster Orchestra, and the Royal Northern Sinfonia. His U.S. debut came with Boston's Handel and Haydn Society, and he has also conducted the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Cummings became artistic director of Germany's Göttingen International Handel Festival in 2011. He has conducted opera at the English National Opera and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and many of his recordings in the 2010s, made for Accent and other labels, were of Handel operas or oratorios. From 1997 to 2012, Cummings was Head of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music. He released a pair of albums in 2022, issuing a recording of Handel's opera Rodelinda, HWV 19, with the FestspielOrchester Göttingen on Accent, and backing countertenor Randall Scotting with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on The Crown: Heroic Arias for Senesino.
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Mozart: Piano Concertos
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Klassik - Erschienen bei AAM Records am 03.11.2023
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Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 5 & Church Sonata No. 17
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Kammermusik - Erschienen bei AAM Records am 23.06.2023
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Mr. Corelli in London: Recorder Concertos, La Follia, after Corelli's op.5
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Klassik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 13.04.2010
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Handel's Last Prima Donna
Ruby Hughes, Laurence Cummings, Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment
Mélodies - Erschienen bei Chandos am 23.03.2018
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Handel: Esther, HWV 50b
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei SOMM Recordings am 05.11.2007
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Requiem: Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 14.06.1999
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The Crown: Heroic Arias for Senesino
Randall Scotting, Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment, Laurence Cummings
Oper - Erschienen bei Signum Records am 02.09.2022
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Full Anthems - Music on the Death of Queen Mary
Andrew Carwood, Michael McCarthy, Laurence Cummings, Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 13.02.1995
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Arias
Christophe Dumaux, Festspiel Orchester Gottingen, Laurence Cummings
Oper - Erschienen bei Accent am 17.01.2020
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BAROQUE HARPSICHORD (THE ART OF THE)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 15.07.2002
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Choral and Organ Music
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Anachronistic Hearts: Haendel Arias
Héloise Mas, London Handel Orchestra, Laurence Cummings
Klassik - Erschienen bei Muso am 14.05.2021
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Handel: Susanna, HWV 66 (Live)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Accent am 28.10.2016
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Bach, C.P.E.: Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin
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Klassik - Erschienen bei ATMA Classique am 01.01.2003
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Counter-Tenor Duets and Song - Purcell and His Contemporaries
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Tomkins: Choral and Organ Works
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 13.09.1999
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Handel: Joshua, HWV 64
Klassik - Erschienen bei Accent am 10.03.2015
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Handel : Agrippina, HWV 6 (Live)
Oper - Erschienen bei Accent am 18.09.2015
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Handel: 8 Great Suites for Solo Harpsichord (HWV 426-433)
Klassik - Erschienen bei SOMM Recordings am 11.01.2011
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Con che soavità, SV 139
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In Memoriam - Music for Solemn Occasions
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