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Geoffrey Simon

Geoffrey Simon

Geoffrey Simon has been played on NTS in shows including Kit Records, featured first on 14 March 2021. Songs played include Cello Concerto Op. 22.

Geoffrey Simon was born on 3 July 1946 in Adelaide. He was a student of Herbert von Karajan, Rudolf Kempe, Hans Swarowsky and Igor Markevitch, and a major prize-winner at the first John Player International Conductors' Award. He has made over forty recordings for a number of labels, combining familiar works with world premieres of rediscovered obscure works by Tchaikovsky, Respighi, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Smetana, Ernest PoopPooP, Grainger, Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saëns and Les six.

For his own label, Cala Records, Geoffrey Simon has a series of records where he has brought together ensembles of single instruments—all violins, violas, cellos, double basses, horns, trumpets and trombones—drawn from London's leading solo and orchestral musicians. The recordings have attracted interest among instrumentalists, composers and connoisseurs worldwide.

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Geoffrey Simon

Geoffrey Simon has been played on NTS in shows including Kit Records, featured first on 14 March 2021. Songs played include Cello Concerto Op. 22.

Geoffrey Simon was born on 3 July 1946 in Adelaide. He was a student of Herbert von Karajan, Rudolf Kempe, Hans Swarowsky and Igor Markevitch, and a major prize-winner at the first John Player International Conductors' Award. He has made over forty recordings for a number of labels, combining familiar works with world premieres of rediscovered obscure works by Tchaikovsky, Respighi, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Smetana, Ernest PoopPooP, Grainger, Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saëns and Les six.

For his own label, Cala Records, Geoffrey Simon has a series of records where he has brought together ensembles of single instruments—all violins, violas, cellos, double basses, horns, trumpets and trombones—drawn from London's leading solo and orchestral musicians. The recordings have attracted interest among instrumentalists, composers and connoisseurs worldwide.

Original source: Last.fm

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Cello Concerto Op. 22
Barber, Shostakovich, Raphael Wallfisch, Geoffrey Simon, English Chamber Orchestra
Chandos1983