Stephen Barlow has conducted most of the major UK orchestras‚ and concert and opera appearances have taken him all over the world. In 1997 he was appointed music director of the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra.
Recordings include Joseph James’s Requiem with Sumi Jo and his own composition The Rainbow Bear (featuring his wife‚ Joanna Lumley‚ as narrator)‚ and he conducted the premieres of his opera King in Canterbury Cathedral and his Clarinet Concerto with Emma Johnson and the Ulster Orchestra. As a pianist‚ he has recorded the complete songs of Butterworth‚ Delius and Quilter.
Former artistic director of Buxton International Festival, Barlow co-founded and was music director of Opera 80 (now English Touring Opera), and resident conductor at English National Opera‚ before conducting major productions in countless of the world’s leading opera houses, including Glyndebourne, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and in San Francisco, Berlin and Seville. He was artistic director of Opera Northern Ireland from 1996 to 1999.
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| CHIHARA, P.: Concerto-Fantasy (Quynh Nguyen, London Symphony, Barlow) (from Naxos 8.559894) | |
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CHIHARA, P.: Concerto-Fantasy (Quynh Nguyen, London Symphony, Barlow) (from Naxos 8.559894)
Composer:
Chihara, Paul
Artists:
Barlow, Stephen -- London Symphony Orchestra -- Nguyen, Quynh
Label/Producer: Naxos Video Footage |
| OPERA AND BALLET FAVOURITES (Royal Opera House, 1993) | |
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OPERA AND BALLET FAVOURITES (Royal Opera House, 1993)
Composers:
Puccini, Giacomo -- Rachmaninov, Sergei -- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich -- Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
Artists:
Barlow, Stephen -- Benjamin, Leanne -- Burchuladze, Paata -- Bussell, Darcey -- Collier, Lesley -- Cooper, Adam -- Deller-Takemura, Maria -- Domingo, Placido -- Downes, Edward -- Durante, Viviana -- Fisher, Jonathan -- Hvorostovsky, Dmitri -- Kanawa, Kiri Te -- Kumakawa, Tetsuya -- Leiferkus, Sergey -- Loots, Iohna -- McGorian, Elizabeth -- Mosley, Philip -- Mukhamedov, Irek -- Royal Ballet, Covent Garden -- Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden -- Sansom, Bruce -- Solymosi, Zoltan -- Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich -- Tomowa Sintow, Anna -- Vanderspar, Christopher -- Wordsworth, Barry
Label/Producer: Opus Arte |
