Martyn Brabbins
Not a celebrity conductor, Britain's prolific Martyn Brabbins has rediscovered a striking amount of neglected music and presented it in convincing performances. Early on, he made a significant mark through recordings of contemporary Scottish composers and as one of the main conductors involved in Hyperion's extensive Romantic Piano Concerto series.
A self-described late starter, Brabbins was born on April 13, 1959. He attended Goldsmith's College and played in brass bands but had little other performing experience before studying conducting with Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1986 to 1988. Upon his return to England, Brabbins won the 1988 Leeds Conductors Competition. His professional debut came that year as a last-minute substitute with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Within a few years, Brabbins had guest-conducted all the BBC orchestras and major and minor ensembles throughout England and Ireland. From 1994 to 2005, he was the associate conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and later added to his schedule the job of principal conductor of the contemporary music group Sinfonia 21. Brabbins expressed particular enthusiasm for "anything after Beethoven," especially such Russian composers as Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. He has also landed many opera engagements, mainly with England's lesser houses, conducting works ranging from Mozart standards to Bliss' The Olympians and Tchaikovsky's The Slippers.
Brabbins' debut recording came on Hyperion in 1994, on Vol. 7 of the Romantic Composers Series, backing pianist Marc-André Hamelin on a recording of music by Adolf Henselt and Charles-Valentin Alkan. In 1997, he conducted the first commercial recording of Korngold's Die Kathrin. Brabbins served as the artistic director of the Cheltenham Music Festival between 2005 to 2007. From 2009 to 2015, he was the principal guest conductor of DeFilharmonie (Royal Flanders Philharmonic) and was the chief conductor of the Nagoya Philharmonic in Japan from 2012 to 2016. Brabbins was named the music director of the English National Opera in 2016, resigning his post there in 2023 in protest against budget cuts at the organization.
Brabbins has made more than 150 recordings for labels such as Chandos, NMC, and Deutsche Grammophon, along with Hyperion. His recorded efforts include a disc of Cyril Scott works with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (2004), Bax (2004), and Britten on Film (2009). He made numerous recordings with both the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the main BBC Philharmonic, often devoting his efforts to unfamiliar repertory from both Britain and continental Europe. His recording pace increased as the new century went on, and the year 2011 saw no fewer than eight Brabbins recordings. In 2020, he was heard on six releases, including a pair of Hyperion albums -- one offering music by Vaughan Williams, the other music by James MacMillan -- and a BIS album containing works by John Pickard. Brabbins paused only slightly during the COVID-19 pandemic, returning in 2023 with six recordings once again, one of them a performance of Charles Villiers Stanford's Requiem with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Brabbins has taught as a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music.
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Bortkiewicz: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 01.09.2002
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Coleridge-Taylor & Somervell: Violin Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto 5)
Anthony Marwood, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 01.02.2005
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Hubay: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto 6)
Hagaï Shaham, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 01.02.2006
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Ferdinand David: Violin Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto 9)
Hagaï Shaham, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 27.09.2010
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Lyapunov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 etc. (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 30)
Hamish Milne, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 01.10.2002
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Moszkowski & Karłowicz: Violin Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto 4)
Tasmin Little, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 01.04.2004
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Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartica (Symphony No. 7) & Symphony No. 9
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 03.03.2023
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Gregson: Blazon, Violin Concerto, Clarinet Concerto & Stepping Out
Martyn Brabbins, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Collins, Olivier Charlier
Symphonien - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.08.2003
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Concerto pour violon - Concerto pour clarinette - Stepping out
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Collins, Olivier Charlier, Martyn Brabbins
Violinkonzerte - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.08.2003
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Francis Chagrin : Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 05.02.2016
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Leighton: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Martyn Brabbins, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Howard Shelley
Symphonien - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.11.2003
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Elgar: Caractacus, Op. 35
Huddersfield Choral Society, The Orchestra Of Opera North, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 29.03.2019
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Frederic Lamond: Symphony in A Major & Other Works
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 01.03.2004
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Wallace: Creation Symphony & Other Orchestral Works
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 01.11.1997
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William Wallace: Symphonic Poems
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 01.09.1996
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Scott: Festival Overture, Violin Concerto, Aubade & Three Symphonic Dances
Martyn Brabbins, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Olivier Charlier, Darius Battiwalla, Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus
Symphonien - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.03.2007
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Jongen & Lazzari: Violin Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto 18)
Philippe Graffin, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 04.01.2015
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Judith Weir: The Welcome Arrival of Rain
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei NMC Recordings am 04.02.2008
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John Pickard: The Gardener of Aleppo & Other Chamber Works
Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei BIS am 01.05.2020
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Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi & Suite; McEwen: Viola Concerto
Lawrence Power, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 31.10.2011
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Mackenzie & Tovey: Piano Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 19)
Steven Osborne, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 01.08.1998
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