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Sylvain Cambreling
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Sylvain Cambreling (born 2 July 1948 in Amiens, France) is a French conductor. Biography: Trained as a trombone player, Cambreling studied at the Paris Conservatoire. He joined l'Orchestre Symphonique de Lyon (OSL) as a trombonist in 1971. In 1974, he took second prize in the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors. His conducting debut was with the OSL in 1975, leading Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust. At the invitation of Pierre Boulez, he began to guest-conduct the Ensemble Intercontemporain regularly from 1976. Cambreling was the music director of the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels from 1981 to 1991, during Gerard Mortier's tenure. He served as artistic director and general music director of the Frankfurt Opera from 1993 to 1997. During his Frankfurt tenure, he encountered controversy over proposed budget cuts from the city of Frankfurt and the director for opera and ballet, Martin Steinhoff. From 1997 to 2004, he served as principal guest conductor of Klangforum Wien, with whom he premiered Luciano Berio's final opera, Cronaca del luogo. He also made several commercial recordings with Klangforum Wien. He was a frequent conductor at the Opéra National de Paris during Mortier's tenure there, from 2004 to 2009, holding the title of "principal conductor" for the first season of that duration, a title shared with six other conductors. From 1999 to 2011, Cambreling was chief conductor of the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, and ma
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Sinfonietta, JW VI/18: I. Allegretto
2472Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Act IV: Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour (Nicklausse, Giulietta, Chorus)
2093Sinfonietta, JW VI/18: II. Andante
2014Sinfonietta, JW VI/18: III. Moderato
1885Sinfonietta, JW VI/18: IV. Allegretto
1716Sinfonietta, JW VI/18: V. Andante con moto
1667Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio
1598Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Act 4: "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" (Barcarolle) [Nicklausse, Giulietta, Chorus]
15494 Chants pour franchir le seuil: II. Interlude. La mort de la civilisation
14710Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 178, "From the New World": I. Adagio - Allegro molto
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Dvorak: Sinfonie Nr. 9 'Aus der Neuen Welt' - Janacek: Sinfonietta
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Beethoven: Sinfonien Nos. 5 & 6, "Pastorale"
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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
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Beethoven: Symphonie No. 3 / Leonoren-Ouverture No. 1
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Anna Netrebko - Live at the Metropolitan Opera
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Debussy: Le martyre de Saint Sébastien, L. 124
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Mozart: Complete Works, Vol. 9 - Operas, Disc 15
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MOZART, W.A.: Symphonies Nos. 33, 35, "Haffner", 38, "Prager"
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