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Edward Gardner

Edward Gardner

Born: 22nd November 1974, Gloucester

Nationality: British

Edward Gardner is an English conductor. While still studying at the Royal Academy of Music in the late 1990s, he began his professional career as a choral conductor and repetiteur. Among other early posts, he was music director of Glyndebourne on Tour from 2004 to 2007. Gardner was music director of English National Opera from 2007 to 2015. From 2010 to 2016, he was principal guest conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and since 2013, he has been principal guest conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Recording of the Week, Tippett from Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Teeming with detail and infectious energy, these live recordings make superb cases for two works from the mid-1950s which had rocky starts in life: the Piano Concerto (with Steven Osborne on clear-headed form) and Symphony No. 2.

Recording of the Week, Sibelius from Edward Gardner, the Bergen Philharmonic, and Lise Davidsen

The Norwegian soprano combines drama and delicacy in the tone-poem Luonnotar, whilst the Bergen string sound in Tapiola, Rakastava and Pelléas & Mélisande is a thing to marvel at.

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