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
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 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.
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.
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
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