See 29 performances featuring Gianandrea NosedaGianandrea Noseda took up his appointment as Principal Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in September 2002. The relationship has thrived, and last season he renewed his contract to run up to 2010, at the same time taking the title Chief Conductor. His successes with the Orchestra include their compelling Beethoven Symphony Cycle at The Bridgewater Hall in 2005, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and made available for free download from the BBC Radio 3 website. The acclaimed initiative was taken up by 1.4 million people, and won the Orchestra an
ITV South Bank Show Award.
Through his association with the BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea is an exclusive artist of Chandos Records. He has released 16 recordings, which include his ongoing exploration of Liszt’s orchestral music, as well as discs of Dallapiccola, Dvorák, Karlowicz, Mahler, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Respighi, Shostakovich and Smetana. All have been successfully reviewed worldwide.
Gianandrea and the BBC Philharmonic are regularly invited to perform in the major European cities; their 2006/07 season opened with a trip to the Prague Autumn Festival, followed by Vienna in the spring. In March this year they visited Korea and Japan, having been reinvited immediately following their performances there to packed houses in 2005. A short tour to China is planned for the New Year.
Opera is one of Gianandrea’s great musical passions and it is a genre he has explored to stunning effect with the BBC Philharmonic. An unforgettable performance of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades in May 2004 set high standards, and last season his interpretation of Strauss’s Salome attracted rave reviews.
In 1997 Gianandrea became the first foreign Principal Guest Conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre, whose forces he has conducted both in St Petersburg and on tour. In 2002 he made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York (returning in 2006 and 2007). In September last year he became Music Director at Teatro Regio iin Turin, one of Europe’s leading opera houses, and he has also appeared with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and La Scala, Milan.
Gianandrea is Principal Conductor of the Orquesta de Cadaqués in Spain and Artistic
Director of the Stresa Festival on the shores of Lake Maggiore, near his home in northern Italy.
In 2004 he conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Tanglewood Festival, and he has since appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony and Montreal Symphony orchestras. Gianandrea made his debut with the Israel Philharmonic last year and has been invited to return for two further engagements. He made his debut with the London Symphony Orchestra in May this year.
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| 9-Feb-2013 Severance Hall | Noseda debuts with Cleveland Orchestra and Massimo LaRosa in Nino Rota's Trombone Concerto |
 Gianandrea Noseda, principal guest conductor of the Israel Philharmonic and former chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, made his Cleveland Orchestra debut this weekend in works by Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, and the Cleveland première of Nino Rota’s Trombone Concerto, with the orchestra’s principal trombone Massimo LaRosa as soloist. All concerned turned in solid performances.
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| 30-Jul-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 22: Mahler meets Knussen with the BBC Phil and Noseda |
 Oliver Knussen’s music is all about exquisiteness and elegance – not words to describe Mahler’s at the best of times, but maybe his Seventh Symphony least of all, with its odd, lumbering structure, coarse trills and abrupt changes of pace. But Mahler 7 and Knussen 2 made an attractive pairing in the hands of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda on Monday, in this excellent performance of some wide-ranging repertoire.
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| 21-Jun-2012 Barbican Centre: Hall | Angela Denoke sings Berg and Wagner with the LSO and Gianandrea Noseda |
 This was potentially a very nice programme which frustratingly only rarely lived up to its promise.
First on the programme were the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde, the iconic bookends of Wagner's most revolutionary work. The Prelude lacked the extraordinary tension and atmosphere it can have, though the climax was powerful throughout. Anyone who heard Angela Denoke in the recent run of Salome at the Royal Opera House will not be surprised to hear that her delivery of the Liebestod was severely affected by her sad and by now quite advanced vocal decline - which manifests principally as poor diction, wayward intonation and difficulty in sustaining a line. Her posture showed very uncomfortable signs of physical tension, and the severe jaw shake points to further vocal tensions that interfere with voice production. At least Isolde's scena lies much lower than does Salome's final scene, which meant that the wobble that plagues her high notes was kept better in check, but at this stage Denoke is not capable of doing full justice to Wagner's music.
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| 4-Nov-2011 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | A mixed Missa Solemnis at the Festival Hall |
| Whether intentionally or not, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has done Christianity’s street cred a great service this week. As the St Paul’s protest furore continues to grow, the orchestra’s performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis was a reminder that for the composer and countless others, religion is first and foremost about the comfort of spirituality. Conductor Gianandrea Noseda and the Philharmonia Chorus joined the OAE and four vocal soloists for this great big Christian Hug in a Mug.
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