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'The Hut of Baby-Yaga' from 'Pictures at an Exhibition'

Mussorgsky: 'The Hut of Baby-Yaga' from 'Pictures at an Exhibition'

Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra
Label: Reference Recordings
Cat. No.: RR-79CD

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Eiji Oue Conductor

Music Director, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Laureate, NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Hannover
Principal Conductor, Osaka Philharmonic

Born in Japan, Eiji Oue began his musical life as a pianist before moving from stage to podium. Since 1998 he has been the Music Director of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Hannover, a post he will relinquish in 2009, becoming the orchestra’s Conductor Laureate. In 2003, he was appointed Principal Conductor of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan, and from the beginning of the 2006/07 season, he commenced his position as Music Director of the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (Barcelona Symphony Orchestra).

Between 1991 and 1995, Eiji Oue was Music Director of Pennsylvania’s Erie Philharmonic Orchestra and from 1995 to 2002 he served as Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra. Alongside these posts, he served as Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming from 1997 to 2003, and his summer engagements in the US have included appearances at the Ravinia, Tanglewood, Grand Park, Wolf Trap, Round Top and Midland music festivals.

Oue has guest conducted throughout the United States, Japan and Europe including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Oslo Philharmonic, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Swedish Radio Symphony, and the orchestras of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and WDR Cologne, and in 2005 he scored a great success in his debut at the Bayreuth Festival conducting Tristan und Isolde.

In the 2009/10 season and beyond, in addition to fulfilling his commitments with the orchestras with which he holds titled positions, he tours Japan with the NDR Philharmonic,makes his debut at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and returns to the Malaysian Philharmonic, Bern Symphony, and the Tonkuenstler Orchestra of Vienna.

Season 2009/10


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