Person · conductor
Adrian Leaper
Albums
55
Members
1
Active
1953–present
Origin
United Kingdom
Biography
Adrian Leaper (born 1953) is an English conductor.
Leaper studied horn and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music and for eight year was co-principal horn of the Philharmonia Orchestra. He was Principal Conductor of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria from 1994 until 2001, when he became conductor of the RTVE Symphony Orchestra in Madrid until 2010.
He has made many recordings for the Naxos Records label. He has conducted for all four major London orchestras, the Moscow, Vienna and Prague Symphony Orchestras in addition to many other radio, philharmonic and symphony orchestras around the world.
Discography
English Festival
The Planets / Suite de Ballet, op. 10
Violin Concerto
English String Festival
Romantic Music for Strings
Galánta Dances / Marosszék Dances / "Peacock" Variations
Sketch of a Dandy / London Cameos / The Seafarer / A Brown Bird Singing
Symphonies nos. 1 & 6
Symphonies nos. 1-7 / En Saga / Belshazzar's Feast
Symphonies nos. 2 & 7
Symphonies nos. 3 & 4
Symphony no. 5 / En Saga / Belshazzar's Feast
Tchaikovsky Festival
Violin Concerto / Cockaigne
Colditz March / State Occasion / The Westminster Waltz / A Star Is Born
Nell Gwyn / Gipsy Suite / Henry VIII / Romeo and Juliet / Tom Jones Waltz / The Conqueror
Spanish Suite "In Malaga" / Robin Hood / Punchinello / Capricante / Galavant / Cascade
Symphonies nos. 17 and 32 / In memoriam / Festal Dance
Symphonies nos. 4 "The Inextinguishable" and 5
Symphony no. 1 / Hamlet Overture
Symphony no. 4 “Das Siegeslied” / Symphony no. 12
The Yellow River Piano Concerto / Chinese Works for Piano Solo
In a Monastery Garden / Chal Romano / Suite Romantique / Cockney Suite / Wedgwood Blue
Symphonies nos. 1-6 / Hamlet / The Tempest / The Storm / Francesca da Rimini
The Dam Busters / The Merrymakers / London Suite / Cinderella / The Selfish Giant
Fantasias After Shakespeare
Where the Rainbow Ends / Country Pieces / The Rake (Suite) / As You Like It / Three English Dances
Hiawatha Overture / Petite Suite / Four Waltzes / Gipsy Suite / Romance / Othello Suite
Symphonies no. 2 "Little Russian" / no. 4, op. 36
Symphonies no. 2 “The Four Temperaments”, no. 3 “Sinfonia espansiva”
Symphonies nos. 1 & 6
Symphony no. 3, op. 36
The Perfect Fool (Ballet Suite) / The Planets
The Yellow River Cantata / The Yellow River Piano Concerto
Violin Concertos
BBC Music, Volume 4, Number 10: BBC Young Musicians Past Finalists
Boléro / Daphnis et Chloé / Rhapsodie espagnole / Ma mere l'oye
Enigma Variations / Pomp and Circumstance Marches / Salut d'amour / Serenade for Strings
Symphony no. 7 / Poema del Iguazú
Symphony no. 7 / Slavonic Dances, op. 72 nos. 1–4
El pájaro de fuego
Cello Concerto in E minor / Introduction and Allegro / Elegy / Serenade for Strings / Salut d’amour / Pomp and Circumstance: March no. 1
Sinfonía Sevillana / Ritmos / Evangelio / El Castillo de Almodóvar
Sinfonietta / 2 Esquisses symphoniques / Al Amanecer / Habanera / Cavatina
Sonatina / Rapsodia portuguesa / Automne malade / Dos canciones
Dante / 5 Pieces on Popular Spanish Songs / Goyescas (Intermezzo & La maja y el ruiseñor)
Hebridean Symphony / Old English Suite / Russian Scenes
Symphony No. 7 “Lied der Nacht”
Chôros 1-7
Requiem
BBC Music, Volume 13, Number 11: Rodrigo / de Falla / Gerhard / Granados
Symphony nos. 11 & 15
Geografías del silencio
The Best of Adrian Leaper
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / Turina: Canto a Sevilla