Gianandrea Noseda
Gianandrea Noseda has developed a well-deserved reputation as a conductor who has mastered a wide range of both symphonic and stage music. He has conducted operas at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as well as at other major operatic venues across the globe, and he is one of the most prolific conductors of the 21st century.
Noseda was born in Milan on April 23, 1964. He first studied piano, then later focused on composition and conducting. His teachers included Valery Gergiev, Myung-Whun Chung, and Donato Renzetti. In 1994, Noseda won two prestigious conducting competitions, the first in Douai, France, and the latter in Cadaques, Spain. Following his win in Cadaques, he was named the principal conductor of the Cadaqués Orchestra. His official debut followed shortly when he led the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. With this ensemble, he made his first recording (1995), a disc of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, and other guitar works with soloist Emanuele Segre for the Claves label.
In 1997, upon the initiative of Gergiev, Noseda was made principal guest conductor at the Mariinsky Theater, the first foreigner to be given this honor. In 2002, Noseda made his debut at the Met conducting Prokofiev's War and Peace and was appointed principal conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. One of his early recordings, featuring Dvořák's Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, came the same year with that group. He held this position until 2006 when his title was changed to chief conductor, a post he held until 2011. That year, he was named the principal guest conductor of the Israel Philharmonic.
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Noseda emerged as one of the top operatic conductors on the British scene and beyond, with muscular, often hyper-dramatic interpretations that drew audiences. His work was amply captured on recordings, with a video of Gounod's Faust appearing in 2016, with the Orchestra e Coro Teatro Regio Torino, and one of Bizet's The Pearl Fishers at the Met in 2017. Noseda made a series of high-profile appearances conducting vocal recitals by four of the world's top singers: Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Rolando Villazón, Anna Netrebko, and Diana Damrau. In 2016, Noseda was named the principal guest conductor of the London Symphony, and the following year, he was named the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. In 2018, he was named the general music director of the Zurich Opera House, beginning with the 2021-2022 season.
Noseda has made numerous recordings for a variety of labels, including Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Philips, and Chandos. His most popular recordings include the best-selling 2003 solo debut of soprano arias by Netrebko with the Vienna Philharmonic on Deutsche Grammophon. Most of his symphonic recordings have been made for the Chandos label and include a complete cycle of the Liszt symphonic poems (finished in 2007) and a cycle of Beethoven's nine symphonies with the BBC Symphony. In 2020, Noseda issued several albums, including Dvorák's New World Symphony and Copland's Billy the Kid with the National Symphony, Shostakovich's Symphonies Nos. 5 and 1 with the London Symphony, and Luigi Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero with the Danish National Symphony. Recordings in his Shostakovich cycle with the London Symphony continued to appear through the COVID-19 pandemic; an album combining the Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54, and Symphony No. 15 in A minor, Op. 141, appeared on the LSO Live label in 2023. By that time, his recording catalog comprised more than 80 items.
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Liszt, F.: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 4 - Hungaria / Hamlet / Hunnenschlacht / Die Ideale
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Symphonic Poems - Released by Chandos on 1/11/2008
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Carlos Simon: The Block
Gianandrea Noseda, National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center
Classical - Released by National Symphony Orchestra on 8/03/2024
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Dallapiccola: Il Prigioniero
Opera - Released by Chandos on 1/07/2020
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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1; Ballades (Deluxe)
Seong-Jin Cho, London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 23/12/2016
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Œuvres orchestrales (Volume 2)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Symphonic Music - Released by Chandos on 1/06/2009
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Ouvres chorales
Alexei Tanovitsky, Svetla Vassileva, St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre Chorus, Misha Didyk, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Chandos on 1/11/2011
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Prokofiev: The Tale of the Stone Flower
Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1/04/2003
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Ten Years of Musica Italiana
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, James Ehnes, Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino, Coro Torino Teatro Regio , Sabina Cvilak, Gianandrea Noseda
Classical - Released by Chandos on 30/06/2014
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RESPIGHI: Boutique fantasque (La) / La pentola magica / Prelude and Fugue in D major
Symphonic Music - Released by Chandos on 1/06/2003
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Dallapiccola: Tartiniana, Due Pezzi, Piccola Musica Notturna, Variazioni & Frammenti Sinfonici dal Balletto Marsia
Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, James Ehnes
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 1/09/2004
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Petrassi: Magnificat & Psalm IX
Gianandrea Noseda, Torino Teatro Regio Orchestra, Sabina Cvilak, Torino Teatro Regio Chorus
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by Chandos on 26/12/2012
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Liszt, F.: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 3 - Mazeppa / Heroide Funebre / Prometheus / Festklange
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Symphonic Poems - Released by Chandos on 1/05/2007
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Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 1/06/2009
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Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 & The Rock
Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 1/03/2010
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Wolf-Ferrari, E.: Gioielli Della Madonna Suite (I) / Suite-Concertino, Op. 16 / Opera Excerpts
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Karen Geoghegan, John Bradbury, Peter Dixon, Gianandrea Noseda
Symphonic Music - Released by Chandos on 1/03/2009
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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1: I. Allegro
Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra
Symphonies - Released by LSO Live on 27/01/2023
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Mascagni: Orchestral Works
Gianandrea Noseda, Filarmonica 900 del Teatro Regio di Torino, Luciano Ganci
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 1/08/2013
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Ten Years of Musica Italiana
Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of Teatro Regio, James Ehnes, Sabina Cvilak, Coro Teatro Regio Torino
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 1/07/2014
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Pietro Mascagni: In Concert (Orchestra Works)
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1/08/2013
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Rachmaninov : Francesca da Rimini (Intégrale)
Full Operas - Released by Chandos on 1/01/2007
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Verdi
Anna Netrebko, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Gianandrea Noseda
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 20/08/2013
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