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Ludwig van Beethoven: BEETHOVEN Symphonies 9
Soloist: John Nelson (Conductor)
Orchestra: Ensemble Orchestral de Paris
Label: Ambroisie / Naïve
Cat. No.: AM9993
“John Nelson leads the modern-instrument Ensemble Orchestre de Paris with an absolutely correct sense of style, and it plays handsomely.” Classics Today.
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John Nelson Conductor
Directeur Musicale Honoraire, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris
The distinguished American conductor, John Nelson, is one of the world’s most versatile and accomplished conductors. He is highly regarded not only for his great interpretations of large Romantic works and his stylish performances of Baroque music, but also for his vibrant Mozart and Haydn and his devotion to new music.
Presently John Nelson holds the title of Directuer Musicale Honoraire of the Ensemble orchestral de Paris, a Beethoven size chamber orchestra which, through its international touring and EMI recordings as well as its strong following at home, established itself as a major force internationally.
John Nelson has conducted in virtually all the major cities of the world- in the US with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles, Boston, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and San Francisco and in Europe with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Dresden Staatskappelle, Gurzenich Orchestra in Cologne, the Academia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and the orchestras of Oslo, Rotterdam, and Orchestre de Paris.
Operatically Maestro Nelson has worked extensively with such companies as the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera, the Bastille Opera, Geneva Grand Theatre, Lyon Opera, Rome Opera, La Monnaie, the Netherlands Opera and the Welsh National Opera.
Recent/future engagements include performances of Der Freischutz and Damnation of Faust at the Geneva Opera, The Trojans at the Stuttgart Staatstheater and the Netherlands Opera, concerts with the Sydney Symphony, Singapore Symphony and Guangzhou Symphony and Hong Kong and China Philharmonic orchestras as well as three major DVD projects: Beethoven Missa solemnis with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe & the Gulbenkian Chorus and Haydn Creation and Bach St Matthew Passion with the Netherlands Radio Kammerphilharmonie and Radio Chorus.
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