The son of a Romanian émigré family, Lawrence Foster studied conducting in Los Angeles with the German conductor Fritz Zweig and piano with Joanne Grauden, and also came into contact with Karl Böhm and Bruno Walter. Having made his conducting debut in 1960 with the Young Musicians’ Debut Orchestra in California, he subsequently became its music director, in addition to serving from 1962 until 1965 as conductor of the San Francisco Ballet, with which he toured extensively. This was followed by a period, 1965 to 1968, as assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, working with its chief conductor Zubin Mehta and forging a close relationship with the orchestra that continued thereafter. Foster won the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize at the Berkshire ...
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BERLIN OPERA NIGHT 2005 (Foster)
Composers:
Bellini, Vincenzo -- Dvorak, Antonin -- Mascagni, Pietro -- Massenet, Jules -- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus -- Rachmaninov, Sergei -- Rossini, Gioachino -- Saint-Saens, Camille -- Thomas, Ambroise -- Verdi, Giuseppe
Artists:
Aliberti, Lucia -- Alvarez, Marcelo -- Ataneli, Lado -- Bayo, Maria -- Beam, Markus -- Berlin Deutsche Opera Chorus -- Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra -- Brownlee, Lawrence -- Foster, Lawrence -- Guleghina, Maria -- Kang, Yosep -- Kaune, Michaela -- Kotscherga, Anatoli -- Machado, Aquiles -- Mathey, Shawn -- Petersen, Marlis -- Prudenskaja, Marina -- Wilson, Harold
Label/Producer: C Major |
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BERLIN OPERA NIGHT 2006 (Foster)
Composers:
Dvorak, Antonin -- Handel, George Frideric -- Puccini, Giacomo -- Rossini, Gioachino -- Smetana, Bedrich -- Strauss, Richard -- Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich -- Verdi, Giuseppe -- Wagner, Richard
Artists:
Barcellona, Daniela -- Bayrakdarian, Isabel -- Berlin Deutsche Opera Chorus -- Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra -- Brenciu, Marius -- Candia, Roberto de -- Erdmann, Mojca -- Ernman, Malena -- Foster, Lawrence -- Isokoski, Soile -- Prudenskaja, Marina -- Quasthoff, Thomas -- Savastano, Marie Virginia -- Urmana, Violeta -- Vargas, Ramon -- Vogt, Klaus Florian
Label/Producer: C Major |
| BERLIN OPERA NIGHT 2007 (Foster) | |
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BERLIN OPERA NIGHT 2007 (Foster)
Composers:
Bellini, Vincenzo -- Donizetti, Gaetano -- Giordano, Umberto -- Lehar, Franz -- Massenet, Jules -- Orff, Carl -- Puccini, Giacomo -- Rossini, Gioachino -- Verdi, Giuseppe
Artists:
Baltsa, Agnes -- Beczala, Piotr -- Berlin Deutsche Opera Chorus -- Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra -- Breslik, Pavol -- Foster, Lawrence -- Grundheber, Franz -- Kocan, Stefan -- Machaidze, Nino -- Marambio, Angela -- Rebeka, Marina -- Stoyanova, Krassimira
Label/Producer: C Major |
| PAGANINI, N.: Paganini's Daemon | |
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PAGANINI, N.: Paganini's Daemon
Artists:
Barrett, Sean -- Foster, Lawrence -- Hawthorne, Denys -- Kremer, Gidon -- McKenzie, Nicolette -- Nupen, Christopher -- Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana -- Thorne, Stephen -- Williams, John
Label/Producer: Christopher Nupen Film |
