The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society 'Guest of the Month' interviewee for October 2023 is conductor Martyn Brabbins.
Martyn Brabbins is Music Director of English National Opera. Apart from his many commitments in the opera house, Martyn guests with top international orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw, San Francisco Symphony, DSO Berlin and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, as well as the Philharmonia, BBC Symphony and most of the other leading UK orchestras. He is a popular figure at the BBC Proms, which in 2019 commissioned fourteen living composers to write a birthday tribute to him.
Known for his advocacy of British composers, one of Martyn’s crowning achievements is the complete recorded cycle of the Vaughan Williams symphonies on the Hyperion label. Of one release, Gramophone magazine’s editor decided that ‘Brabbins’s Vaughan Williams symphony cycle continues to go from strength to strength with this impressively cogent, self-effacing reading…scrupulously attentive, uncommonly humane, utterly free of artifice and, to my mind, deserving of a place alongside Barbirolli, Boult, Previn, Handley and Haitink.’
Our video recording is topped and tailed with film of Martyn conducting the Tredegar Town Band for Albion Records (part of The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society) in an arrangement of Vaughan Williams’s Prelude on Rhosymedre, for our acclaimed recording Vaughan Williams on Brass - rvwsociety.com/vaughan-willia...
20 июл 2024
