UWE GRODD
conductor
Uwe Grodd’s contributions to classical music have
brought him considerable international acclaim as
conductor, flautist, editor and teacher. To date, he
has made world premiere recordings of more than
80 works of 18th and early 19th century music.
Three of these masses and 19 symphonies have not
been heard since the 18th century. In 1997 he joined
Naxos Records as an exclusive artist, a partnership that has allowed him to
reintroduce the oeuvres of many undervalued or forgotten composers.
Uwe Grodd initially gained worldwide attention when awarded First Prize
at the Cannes Classical Awards 2000 for Best 18th Century Orchestral
recording for his CD of Vanhal symphonies on which he conducted Hungary’s
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia. Two Editor’s Choice Awards from Gramophone
UK followed and in 2013 Grodd received the coveted International Record
Review Outstanding Industry award following his recording of Ferdinand
Ries’ Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra, featuring the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony, the Gaevle and the New Zealand
Symphony Orchestra.
Uwe Grodd performed and recorded his new editions of Hummel’s
arrangements of Mozart’s last six symphonies for flute, violin, cello and piano.
With their generous suggestions for phrasing, articulation, dynamics and, most
importantly, metronome markings for tempo, they offer an intricate insight
into how Mozart’s most prominent student shaped these masterworks. In 2018
this was followed with Hummel’s arrangements of Beethoven’s Symphony
No. 1 and the Eroica. He performed and recorded them in the UK with the
Gould Piano Trio.
Performance highlights include eight concerts with the Mexico City
Philharmonic and the final concerts of the 53rd and the 54th Handel
Festival in Halle, Germany. This involved a combined choir of 280 and the
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle. He also conducted sell-out seasons
of Handel’s rediscovered opera Imeneo in the Halle Opera house, and was
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