ALBUMGreat Swedish Singers: Gosta Winbergh (1971-1987)Gary Bertini, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Gosta Winbergh, Frieder Meschwitz, Erik Saeden, Elisabeth Söderström, Ulf Soderblom, Leif Roar, Berislav Klobucar, Stockholm Royal Opera Orchestra, Sven Olof Eliasson, Britt-Marie Aruhn, Gunnel Bohman, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, Okko Kamu, Anita Soldh, Christina Gorne, Gothenburg Stora Teatern Orchestra, Per Stokholm & Gunnar Staern
ALBUMWagner - Mottl: Wesendonck Lieder - Wagner: Preludes & OverturesMeasha Brueggergosman, The Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst
ALBUMShadows of SilenceFranz Welser-Möst, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Leif Ove Andsnes
ALBUMStrauss: Eine Alpensinfonie - Bruckner: Te DeumLondon Philharmonic Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst
ALBUMStravinsky: Oedipus Rex, Firebird & Symphonies of Wind InstrumentsLondon Philharmonic Choir, Franz Welser-Möst, Lambert Wilson & London Philharmonic Orchestra
ALBUMMozart: Requiem & Mass in C minorFranz Welser-Möst
ALBUMStrauss: Alpine SymphonyFranz Welser-Möst & Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
ALBUMStrauss II - Favorite WaltzesFranz Welser-Möst & London Philharmonic Orchestra
ALBUMSchmidt: Das Buch mit Sieben SiegelnFranz Welser-Möst
ALBUMA Night at the OperaFranz Welser-Möst, Orchester der oper Zürich & Sabine Meyer
“Making music today can only be done in a spirit of togetherness,” says the Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Möst in his autobiography From Silence. And yet, in the course of a career that has taken him from Bruckner’s birthplace of Linz (where a car accident ended youthful dreams of a career as a violinist) to his current position since 2002 as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, he’s built a reputation as a quiet but fiercely determined idealist and is unafraid of innovation in the service of music.
That was evident in his first major conducting post, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1990-96). Like Mahler and Karajan before him, he fine-tuned his art with stints in major opera houses (Zurich, 1995-2008, and the Vienna Staatsoper, 2007-14). In Cleveland his commitment to new music and opera alongside the Austro-German symphonic canon has attracted one of the youngest audiences in the USA, and he’s also won the respect of the Vienna Philharmonic, which has repeatedly invited him to conduct its celebrated New Year’s Concert. Today, Welser-Möst seems to be that rarest thing—a genuinely energising artist who understands that tradition is about the future as well as the past.
Hometown
Linz, Austria
Genre
Classical
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