Jeffrey Tate
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Jeffrey Tate was an English classical conductor who struggled with the neurological disease spina bifida from childhood but overcame it to become celebrated internationally for his work with most of the major orchestras and chorales in Europe and in the United States. Born in the Wiltshire town of Salisbury, he studied music as a child but turned to medicine at university and began his life as a doctor before returning to his first love later. In the 1970s, he worked with Georg Solti at the Royal Opera House where in 1986 he became the venue's first principal conductor, a position he held until 1991.
In Bayreuth in 1976, he assisted conductor Pierre Boulez on the centennial production of Wagner's 'Ring' cycle, which led to work in Hamburg and Cologne and then Sweden, where he conducted the opera 'Carmen'. Tate conducted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1980 and in 1985 he became the first principal conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra, with whom he recorded many Haydn and Mozart symphonies and piano concertos featuring Mitsuko Uchida. From 1991 to 2010 he conducted the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and was musical director of the San Carlo theatre in Naples, and then chief conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.
Tate maintained an international career for more than 40 years even though his physical disability meant that he had to sit down to conduct. He received a Knighthood in 2017 and following his death that year aged 74, on its website the Royal Opera House described him as "a vibrant figure in classical music-making".
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- Le Cid: De cet affreux combat.....Pleurez mes yeux featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
- L' Enfant prodigue: Récit et Air de Lia: L'année en vain cahsse l'année ... Azaël! Azaël! featuring Chorus of the Royal Opera House
- La Damnation de Faust Op. 24: D'amour l'ardente flamme featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
- Hérodiade: Celui dont la parole...Il est doux, il est bon featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
- R. Strauss: Arabella, Op.79 / Act 2 - O Arabella, gibt es was Schöneres by Jeffrey Tate
- R. Strauss: Arabella, Op.79 / Act 2 - Und jetzt sag ich Adieu by Gilles Cachemaille
- R. Strauss: Arabella, Op.79 / Act 1 - Aber der Richtige, wenn's einen gibt für mich featuring Jeffrey Tate
- R. Strauss: Arabella, Op.79 / Act 1 - Er ist der Richtige nicht für mich!
- R. Strauss: Arabella, Op.79 / Act 3 - Das war sehr gut, Mandryka
- R. Strauss: Arabella, Op.79 / Act 3 - Dann aber, wie ich Sie gespürt hab hier im Finstern by Franz Grundheber
- Missa solemnis in D Major, Op. 123: Et resurrexit
- Missa solemnis in D Major, Op. 123: Gloria in excelsis Deo - Gratias agimus tibi
- Chamber Symphony no. 2, op. 38: II. Con fuoco, Molto adagio by English Chamber Orchestra
- Puccini: La rondine, SC 83 / Act I: "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" featuring Renée Fleming
- Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro - rehearsal sequence 2 - recitative passages Act 4 featuring Samuel Ramey
- Flotow: Martha / Act 2: Last Rose of Summer featuring Renée Fleming
- Mozart: Così fan tutte - Overture by Jeffrey Tate
- Schubert: An die Musik, Op. 88 No. 4, D547 featuring Hans Hotter
- Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: II. Larghetto (Cadenza by Kreisler)
- Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: I. Allegro ma non troppo (Cadenza by Kreisler)
- Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in F Major, Op. 50
- Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G Major, Op. 40
- Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: III. Rondo. Allegro (Cadenza by Kreisler)
- Manon/Act 2 - Adieu, Notre Petite Table by Jeffrey Tate
