Sylvain Cambreling
Sylvain Cambreling is one of the leading French operatic conductors. He is known for his often startling innovations in many opera productions: in a performance of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the 2001 Salzburg Festival he employed a synthesizer to deliver recitative accompaniments, and at a performance of Janácek's Katya Kabanova, he used some of the composer's songs as transitional material between acts. Cambreling also conducts orchestral concerts on a regular basis, and here as well he imparts imaginative touches to the programming: his concert bills might well mix disparate composers like Haydn and Messiaen or present a colorful assortment of traditional and contemporary works. Cambreling has made many recordings for a variety of labels, including EMI, Hanssler, Orfeo D'or, and others.
Cambreling was born in Amiens, France, on July 2, 1948. At the Paris Conservatory he studied trombone; in 1971 he was taken on as trombonist with the Lyons Symphony Orchestra, but was already preparing for a career in conducting via his studies with conductor/composer Pierre Dervaux. Cambreling won second prize at the 1974 Besançon International Conducting Competition.
In 1975 he debuted as a conductor with the Lyons Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust. That same year he accepted a post at the Lyons Opera as an assistant to music director Serge Baudo. Cambreling's operatic debut also came in that watershed year of 1975 in a performance of Rossini's La Cenerentola.
Cambreling began working with Pierre Boulez in 1976, leading many performances of the latter's Ensemble InterContemporain. From 1981-1991 Cambreling served as music director of the Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels. There he conducted a broad range of operatic repertory to generally favorable response, in the end advancing the reputation of the company. At the Frankfurt Opera he served as music director and artistic director from 1993-1997.
From 1999-2011 Cambreling was chief conductor of the SWR Baden-Baden und Freiburg Sinfonieorchester. Continuing to server as principal guest conductor of Klangforum Wien, his next appointment was conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (2011), and beginning in the 2012-2013 season, general music director of the Stuttgart State Opera. Cambreling appears regularly at the Paris National Opera leading a variety of compelling performances, including Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, Messiaen's St. François d'Assisse, and Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Among Cambreling's more notable recordings include the 1999 Katya Kabanova on Orfeo D'or; the 2004 album of Debussy's Images, Danses, and La Mer; and the 2008 box set of Messiaen, both on Hanssler Classics.
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Sylvain Cambreling Conducts
Sylvain Cambreling, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 13/10/2023
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Janáček: Sinfonietta, JW VI/18
Sylvain Cambreling, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 11/08/2023
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Debussy: Le martyre de Saint Sébastien, L. 124
Sylvain Cambreling, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Collegium Vocale Gent, Dorte Lyssewski
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 18/01/2010
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Les Ballets Russes
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 09/09/2022
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Saint-Saëns : Oratorio de Noël, Op. 12 - Motets
Le Madrigal de Lyon, Alain Chabrier, Orchestre de Chambre de Lyon, Sylvain Cambreling
Classical - Lançado por Arion em 01/01/2009
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Gérard Grisey: Quatre chants pour franchir le Seuil
Catherine Dubosc, Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 01/10/2001
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Georg Friedrich Haas: In Vain
Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 01/04/2001
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Massenet: L'œuvre de piano
Aldo Ciccolini, Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Sylvain Cambreling
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics em 29/01/2021
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Helmut Lachenmann: Schreiben & Double (Grido II) [Live]
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Sylvain Cambreling, Experimentalstudio des SWR, Michael Acker, Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble, Matthias Hermann
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 01/11/2014
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Georg Friedrich Haas: Works for Ensemble
Lukas Schiske, Dimitrios Polisoidis, Georg Schulz, Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 01/01/2002
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Schönberg: Moses und Aron
Franz Grundheber, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Andreas Conrad, Europe Choir Academy, Sylvain Cambreling
Opera - Lançado por SWR Classic em 03/06/2014
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Catulli Carmina - Stravinsky: Les Noces (Carl Orff - Catullus - Igor Stravinsky)
Classical - Lançado por Glor Classics em 05/07/2011
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RIHM: Dis-Kontur / Lichtzwang / Sub-Kontur (Rihm Edition, Vol. 2)
SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks, János Négyesy, Sylvain Cambreling, Ernest Bour
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 01/01/2007
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Morton Feldman: For Samuel Beckett
Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 01/07/1999
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Olga Neuwirth: Works for Ensemble
Ernesto Molinari, Burkhard Stangl, Rico Gubler, Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 01/11/2000
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Edition Staatskapelle Dresden, Vol. 35: Giuseppe Sinopoli (Live)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Kai Vogler, Peter Bruns, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Peter Ruzicka, Sylvain Cambreling
Classical - Lançado por Profil em 02/09/2016
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Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila (Live 1988)
Marjana Lipovšek, Carlo Cossutta, Sylvain Cambreling, Wiener Symphoniker
Classical - Lançado por Edition Bregenzer Festspiele em 26/10/1995
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Lachenmann: Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern
Sylvain Cambreling, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Classical - Lançado por ECM New Series em 14/06/2004
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Friedrich Cerha: Spiegel - Monumentum - Momente
Friedrich Cerha, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Sylvain Cambreling, ORF Radio Symphonieorchester Wien, Dennis Russell Davies
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 26/04/2010
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Hans Zender: Schubert's Winterreise
Christoph Prégardien, Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 01/07/1999
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Debussy, C.: Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune / Schmitt, F.: La Tragedie De Salome / Stravinsky, I.: Petrushka (Les Ballets Russes, Vol. 3)
SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Sylvain Cambreling
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 01/10/2008
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