Person · British composer and conductor
Oliver Knussen
Albums
47
Members
0
Active
1952–2018
Origin
United Kingdom
Biography
Stuart Oliver Knussen CBE (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a British composer and conductor. Oliver Knussen was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His father, Stuart Knussen, was principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra, and also participated in a number of premieres of Benjamin Britten's music. Oliver Knussen studied composition with John Lambert between 1963 and 1969, and also received encouragement from Britten. He spent several summers studying with Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood in Massachusetts and in Boston.
Discography
Symphony No.2 / Trumpets / Coursing / Cantata
Where The Wild Things Are: A Fantasy Opera
Symphonies 2 & 3, etc.
Symphony no. 2 / Symphony no. 3 / Trumpets / Ophelia Dances / Coursing / Cantata
Ashkenazy in Moscow 2: The English Works
The Prince of the Pagodas
Psalmodies / Vox In Rama / Nightshade
Sing, Ariel / The Mouse Metamorphosed Into a Maid
Melencolia 1 / Ritual Fragment / Meridian
Songs Without Voices Etc.
Grohg / Hear ye! Hear ye! / Prelude
An Alice Symphony
Stravinsky: The Flood / Abraham and Isaac / Variations / Requiem Canticles / Wuorinen: A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky
Knussen Dirigiert Knussen = Knussen Conducts Knussen
Concerto for Orchestra / The Sentinel of the Rainbow / The Ring of Eternity / The Circles of Light
The Fairy's Kiss / Faun and Shepherdess / Ode
Undine
Portrait
Quotation of Dream
Clarinet Concerto / Symphonia: Sum Fluxai Pretium Spei
Aura / Engine
Rain Spell
Higglety Pigglety Pop! & Where The Wild Things Are
Riverrun / Water-Ways / Rain Coming / Rain Spell / Tree Line
Rodeo / El Salón México / Billy the Kid / Grohg / Fanfare for the Common Man
Horn Concerto / Whitman Settings / Way to Castle Yonder
Vintage Alice / Syzygy / Songs
Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bare Mountain / Khovanshchina / Boris Godunov
Dialogues / Boston Concerto / Cello Concerto / ASKO Concerto
Alhambra Fantasy / Khorovod / The Stations of the Sun / The Crazed Moon / Diptych
Arc Green
Book of Hours
British Composers: The Prince of Pagodas / Gloriana - Symphonic Suite
Concerto for Orchestra / Violin Concerto / Three Occasions for Orchestra
Four Dances
Taverner
Liszt: Sonata in B minor / Schumann: Humoreske / Knussen: Ophelia's Last Dance
The Prince of the Pagodas / The Miraculous Mandarin
Choral / Autumnal / Violin Concerto / Requiem – Songs for Sue
The Rape of Lucretia
A Tribute to Janet
Late Works
The Soldier's Tale
The Comedy of Change / Heaven Is Shy of Earth
Heliogabalus imperator / Works for orchestra
Tippett, Beethoven, Knussen
Knussen Dirigiert Knussen
Credits
20th Century Masterpieces - 100 Years Of Classical Music
Broken symmetry / Suns dance / Fourth Sonata
Concerto For Orchestra, Etc
Concerto For Orchestra / Violin Concerto / Three Occasions
Dialogues / Boston Concerto / Cello Concerto / Asko Concerto
Four Compositions / Winternacht, Walden
Grohg / Hear Ye! Hear Ye! / Prelude
In Sleep, In Thunder / Triple Duo
Knussen Dirigiert Knussen = Knussen Conducts Knussen
McGonagall-Lieder
Orchestral Works
Pictures At An Exhibition
Quotation Of Dream
Riverrun - Water-Ways Etc
Songs Without Voices Etc.
Symphonia - Clarinet Concerto
Symphonies 2 & 3, etc.
Symphony No.2 / Trumpets / Coursing / Cantata
The Collector's Edition - The Masterpieces - The Greatest Artists
The Fairy's Kiss • Faun And Shepherdess • Ode
The Flood • Abraham And Isaac • Variations • Requiem Canticles • A Reliquary For Igor Stravinsky
The Prince Of The Pagodas
The Triumph Of Time / Ritual Fragment / Gawain's Journey
Undine
Where The Wild Things Are: A Fantasy Opera
...Words Of The Sea... / In My Sky At Twilight
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