Schonwandt, Michael

Michael Schönwandt ( dated. Michael Schønwandt ; born September 10, 1953 , Copenhagen ) is a Danish conductor .

He studied at the London Royal Academy of Music . From 1979 he worked at the Copenhagen Opera. In 1992 - 1998 headed the Berlin Symphony Orchestra , since 2000 the chief conductor of the Royal Danish Orchestra . He worked with leading orchestras of the world, staged " Nuremberg meistersingers " at the Bayreuth festival . Among the significant works of Schönwandt is the cycle of all Beethoven's piano concertos with Alfred Brendel and the London Symphony Orchestra . Schönwandt is also known as a promoter of Danish music - most of all, Carl Nielsen (Schönwandt recorded all his symphonies and concerts); The world premiere of Poul Rooders 's The Handmaid's Tale ( 2000 , based on Margaret Atwood ) was also directed by Schönwandt.

Critical assessments of creativity Schonwandt diverge. In some reviews, it is characterized as “a typical example of a gray artisan from music,” under whose control “a luxurious Wagner score seemed like a dry drawing, a black and white tracing paper, shot with sparkling colors of the original” ^[1] . On the contrary, the well-known music critic Artyom Vargaftik writes about the same production of “The Gold of the Rhine” in the Danish Royal Opera: myself, from under the hardest press, which for objective reasons is the score of Wagner's musical drama ” ^[2] .