Orquestra Gulbenkian

The Orquestra Gulbenkian is an orchestra based in Lisbon , Portugal .

history

The orchestra was founded in 1962 by the Lisbon-based Gulbenkian Foundation . His chief conductors and music directors included Gianfranco Rivoli , Werner Andreas Albert , Claudio Scimone and Tang Muhai .

Recordings were often made by Michel Corboz , who has been chief conductor of the affiliated choir since 1969.

Lawrence Foster was Music Director and Chief Conductor of the orchestra from 2002 to 2013, and Paul McCreesh from 2013 to 2016 . Lorenzo Viotti has been chief conductor since the 2018/19 season, and he was acting chief conductor of the orchestra in the 2017/18 season.

Recordings

• Giuseppe Verdi - Otello . Nikolai Schukoff , Melody Moore, Lester Lynch, Kevin Short, Lawrence Foster , Gulbenkian Orchestra. Pentatone (Label) PTC 5186562 (2017)
• Gordon Getty - Usher House . Etienne Dupuis, Phillip Ens, Lisa Delan, Christian Elsner, Lawrence Foster , Benedict Cumberbatch , Gulbenkian Orchestra. Pentatone (Label) PTC 5186451 (2013)
• Max Bruch , Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Violin Concertos & Ernest Chausson - Poème . Arabella Steinbacher , Lawrence Foster , Gulbenkian Orchestra. Pentatone (Label) PTC 5186503 (2013)
• Sergei Rachmaninov & Edvard Grieg - Piano Concertos. Sa Chen , Lawrence Foster , Gulbenkian Orchestra. Pentatone (label) PTC 5186444 (2011)
• Zoltán Kodály , Béla Bartók & György Ligeti - Orchestral Works. Lawrence Foster , Mihaela Costea, Esther Georgie, Cyril Dupuy, Jonathan Luxton, Kenneth Best, Gulbenkian Orchestra.
• Antonio Salieri - Requiem in C minor, Ludwig van Beethoven - Sea calm and Happy Voyage , Franz Schubert - Intende voci. Lawrence Foster , Coro Gulbenkian, Gulbenkian Orchestra. Pentatone (label) PTC 5186359 (2010).
• Frédéric Chopin - The 2 Piano Concertos. Sa Chen ,  Lawrence Foster , Gulbenkian Orchestra. Pentatone (label) PTC 5186341 (2008)

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gulbenkian Choir. Conductors. In: Orquestra Gulbenkian. July 6, 2019 (English). 
2. ↑ Paul McCreesh. In: Orquestra Gulbenkian. April 12, 2017 (English). 
3. ↑ Viotti becomes chief conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra , musik-heute.de, October 16, 2017, accessed on January 18, 2018