Donald Runnicles
Conductor Donald Runnicles has been equally active in opera and concert music in Europe and the U.S. He has amassed a large recording catalog with the various major ensembles he has led.
Runnicles was born on November 16, 1954, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was a furniture supply company director who also played the organ and directed a choir. Runnicles attended George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and then moved to George Watson's College, which offered music courses. He studied music at the University of Edinburgh and St. John's College, Cambridge, going on for further studies at the London Opera Centre. He worked as a vocal coach in Mannheim, Germany, and became Generalmusikdirector of the city of Freiburg, Germany, in 1989. Runnicles soaked up the German operatic tradition, and he worked mostly as an opera conductor for the first years of his career. In 1990, he conducted Wagner's Ring Cycle with the San Francisco Opera, and two years later, he was appointed the company's music director. He remained in that post through 2009 and has remained active as a guest conductor. Runnicles made his recording debut in 1994 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, leading Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel; that album appeared on the Teldec label, and Runnicles was associated with that label for many years.
After the turn of the century, Runnicles was active increasingly often as a conductor of instrumental music. From 2001 to 2007, he was the principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York. From 2009 to 2016, Runnicles served as the chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He became the principal guest conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 2001, continuing to hold that position as of the early 2020s through the tenures of several music directors. Runnicles became the music director of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Colorado in 2005, and he continued to hold that position as of the early 2020s as well. In 2007, Runnicles was appointed Generalmusikdirektor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, assuming the podium in 2009; his contract there has been extended through 2027. Runnicles has a large recording catalog, much of it made with the above-named groups. In addition to Telarc, he has recorded for major labels such as Decca, Hyperion, and Sony Classical. He moved to Reference Recordings in 2023, leading the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra in support of pianist Garrick Ohlsson in the complete piano concertos of Beethoven.
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24 álbum(es) • Ordenado por Mejores ventas
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Richard Wagner : Airs d'opéras - Wesendonck Lieder
Jonas Kaufmann, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles
Clásica - Editado por Decca Music Group Ltd. el 01-01-2013
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James MacMillan: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 4
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles, Vadim Repin
Clásica - Editado por Onyx Classics el 21-10-2016
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Aribert Reimann : L'invisible (Live)
Ópera - Editado por Oehms Classics el 15-06-2018
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Oceane (Live)
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles, Maria Bengtsson, Nikolai Schukoff, Christoph Pohl, Nicole Haslett
Ópera - Editado por Oehms Classics el 17-01-2020
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93 (Live)
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Donald Runnicles
Clásica - Editado por SWR Classic Archive el 13-03-2020
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Britten: Billy Budd, Op. 50 (Live)
Neil Shicoff, Bo Skovhus, Eric Halfvarson, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Donald Runnicles, Chor Der Wiener Staatsoper
Ópera - Editado por Orfeo el 01-01-2016
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Britten: Billy Budd, Op. 50 (Wiener Staatsoper Live) (Live)
Eric Halfvarson, Neil Shicoff, Bo Skovhus, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Donald Runnicles
Ópera - Editado por Orfeo el 01-01-2016
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Richard Wagner : Airs d'opéras - Wesendonck Lieder
Jonas Kaufmann, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles
Clásica - Editado por Decca Music Group Ltd. el 01-01-2013
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Orff: Carmina Burana
Clásica - Editado por Telarc el 23-10-2001
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles
Clásica - Editado por Hyperion el 01-01-1992
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles
Clásica - Editado por Hyperion el 01-01-1992
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Britannia
Donald Runnicles, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por Telarc el 23-10-2007
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Górecki: Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"
Christine Brewer, Donald Runnicles, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por Telarc el 24-03-2009
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Bellini : I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Ópera - Editado por Warner Classics International el 01-06-1999
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Strauss: Four Last Songs & Death and Transfiguration - Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Donald Runnicles, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Christine Brewer
Clásica - Editado por Telarc el 15-08-2006
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Humperdinck : Hänsel und Gretel
Ópera - Editado por Warner Classics International el 01-10-1993
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Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Robert D. Levin Edition)
Clásica - Editado por Telarc el 23-08-2005
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral"
Donald Runnicles, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Mary Dunleavy, Elizabeth Bishop, Stephen Gould, Alastair Miles
Clásica - Editado por Telarc el 01-09-2003
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Symphony At The Opera - Great Opera Interludes
Clásica - Editado por Arabesque Recordings el 06-05-2003
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Great Strauss Scenes
Christine Brewer, Donald Runnicles, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Christine Brewer, Donald Runnicles, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por Telarc el 01-01-2010
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39 & 41 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Música sinfónica - Editado por St. Luke's Collection el 23-11-2011
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