Stefan Blunier
Stefan Blunier is a Swiss conductor. He began studying music in his native city of Bern, then concentrated his energies on piano, horn, composition, and conducting when he attended the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. As a student, he founded a new music ensemble and performed as a piano soloist and an accompanist in lieder recitals. Taking the traditional course of conductors, Blunier worked in opera houses in Mainz, Augsburg, and Mannheim before becoming music director and chief conductor of the Staatstheater Darmstadt, a post he held from 2001 to 2008. Additionally, he has conducted operas in Munich, Hamburg, Leipzig, Stuttgart, and Berlin, and made a name for himself outside Germany by conducting in Montpellier, Oslo, and Bern. In 2010, he appeared with the English National Opera in a performance of Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers. Blunier is frequently invited to conduct radio symphony orchestras in Germany, and he has led the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchester, the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and numerous orchestras in Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, France, Japan, and South Korea. Since 2008, Blunier has served as the general music director of the city of Bonn, where he is responsible for performances by the Beethoven Orchester Bonn and the Bonn Opera. He was also the principal guest conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra for the 2010-2011 season. A specialist in music of the late 19th and 20th centuries, Blunier has focused his attention on such composers as Busoni, Reger, Schoenberg, Zemlinsky, and Sibelius. Blunier records for Sony, CPO, and MDG.
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Discography
16 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Babadjanian: Heroic Ballad
Jean-Paul Gasparian, Berner Symphonieorchester, Stefan Blunier
Classical - Released by Claves Records on 25 Mar 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Fitzenhagen: Cello Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Cello Concerto 7)
Alban Gerhardt, Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Blunier
Classical - Released by Hyperion on 25 Sep 2015
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
André Messager: Passionnément
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Stefan Blunier
Classical - Released by Bru Zane on 11 Jun 2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Stefan Blunier, Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno, Petr Fiala
Classical - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) on 1 May 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony in D Minor, WAB 100 & 3 Pieces, WAB 97
Stefan Blunier, Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Classical - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) on 1 Mar 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Respighi: Pini di Roma & Trittico Botticelliano & Corali
Stefan Blunier, Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Classical - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) on 1 Jun 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: III. Allegro scherzando
Jean-Paul Gasparian, Berner Symphonieorchester, Stefan Blunier
Classical - Released by Claves Records on 4 Mar 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 - Overtures
Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Stefan Blunier
Classical - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) on 1 Nov 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1 & 5
Stefan Blunier, Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Classical - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) on 1 Jan 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Schreker: Irrelohe Opera in 3 Acts
Opera - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) on 1 Sep 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
Stefan Blunier, Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Classical - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) on 1 Nov 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Schmidt: Symphonie No. 4
Stefan Blunier, Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Classical - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) on 1 Jun 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Symphonies No. 4 und No. 7
Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Stefan Blunier
Classical - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) on 1 Feb 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Russian Composers Around 1900
Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Stefan Blunier
Classical - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm on 1 Feb 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Nacht der Träume
WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Stefan Blunier, Juraj Cizmarovic, Bo Skovhus
Classical - Released by Delta on 14 Nov 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Fitzenhagen: Cello Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Cello Concerto 7)
Alban Gerhardt, Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Blunier
Classical - Released by Hyperion on 25 Sep 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo