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Ernest Bour
12+ albums
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Ernest Bour (20 April 1913 - 20 June 2001) was a noted conductor. Born in Thionville, Moselle (in north-eastern Lorraine, then part of Germany), Bour studied at both the University and the Conservatoire of Strasbourg. His conducting teachers included Fritz Münch and Hermann Scherchen. Perhaps his most heard recording is of Ligeti's Atmospheres with the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra aka Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden heard on the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey. After serving as chorus master for the radio choruses of Geneva and Strasbourg, he was appointed conductor of the Orchestre de Mulhouse in 1941. In 1950 he became conductor of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1955 of the Strasbourg Opera House, where he had conducted the premiere of Delannoy's Puck in 1949. He was principal conductor of the SWF Symphony Orchestra in Baden-Baden from 1964 to 1979. He conducted the European premiere of Berio's Sinfonia during the 1969 Donaueschingen Festival by the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. From 1976 until 1987 he was permanent guest conductor of The Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra located in the VARA radio headquarters in Hilversum. Bour's repertoire was marked by a concentration on contemporary music. World premières he presided over included works by Bussotti, Ferneyhough, Górecki, Ligeti, Rihm, Stockhausen and Xenakis, and he gave the French premières of Hindemith's Symphony Mathis der Maler and Stravinsky's The Rake
top songs
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Overture: Atmospheres
1,5062Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathrustra)
1,1233Górecki : Symphony No.3 Op.36, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' : II Lento e Largo
3924Górecki : Symphony No.3 Op.36, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' : I Lento, sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile
3815Daphnis et Chloé - Suites No. 2: Danse Générale
3036Górecki : Symphony No.3 Op.36, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' : III Lento cantabile - semplice
2457Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550: I. Molto allegro
1268Also Sprach Zarathustra
849Overture - Atmospheres
8310Symphony No. 39 in E-Flat Major, KV 543: Adagio, aalegro
77albums
2001: A Space Odyssey Soundtrack
Górecki : Symphony No.3, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin / Shéhérazade / Menuet Antique / Tzigane / Daphnis et Chloé - Suites No. 1 & 2
2001: A Space Odyssey
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2001 - A Space Odyssey
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Mozart: The Greatest Symphonies
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Dirige Béla Bartok
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Classical Chillout
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A Celebration - 250 Minutes of Mozart
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Классическая Музыка - Лучшее Когда-Либо
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100 Classical Music Masterworks