Michael Holmes conducts Smetana Moldau (Vltava) [Sources-Hunt]

Bedřich Smetana - Vltava (The Moldau) [Part I]
Varna Philharmonic, Bulgaria
Michael Holmes, Conductor
Live performance: October 11, 1998

About Michael Holmes:

Michael Holmes's career has encompassed a wide spectrum of musical pursuits, including the fields of historical performance, symphonic conducting, composing/arranging, and scholarly research. He serves as music director of the Orchestra of the 17th Century in Washington D.C., artistic director of the Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble (one of the USA's premiere period brass ensembles), and director of the University of Maryland Collegium Musicum. He has also performed on an array of period instruments with ensembles such as Stylus Luxurians, the Washington Bach Consort, Opera Lafayette, and Piffaro. Michael has performed extensively as a conductor in Europe, leading symphonic, opera, and historical performances in Poland, Czech Republic, Finland, Romania, and Bulgaria. His conducting teachers have included Jorma Panula, Neeme Järvi, Otakar Trhlík, František Vajnar, and Georg Tintner. As a Fulbright Scholar, he undertook extensive research on Nordic music in Finland, specializing in the music of Sibelius, and sang on two tours with the premiere Finnish male voice choir Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat (including one at New York's Lincoln Center), and was present during their recording of the Sibelius complete works for male voice choir on the Finlandia label. Currently, he serves as the music director at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring, MD.

Contact: musicdirector@uucss.org
URL: http://www.myspace.com/mikkokotilainen

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Classical
• Romantic
• Bedřich
• Smetana
• Moldau
• Vltava
• Chech
• Varna
• Philharmonic
• Bulgaria
• Michael
• Holmes
• Conductor

[msholmes]

Please rate and comment. Thank You!

[estel74]

one of most beautiful music ever composed. thanks Smetana!

[revalidan]

Beautiful. :)

[pianopro9]

Thumbs up if you first heard this in 4th grade leisure...

[cakeisafake]

喜歡

[magie7777777]

 KRASNY

[45lacosta]

Wonderful music and a really lovely video. Thank you

[KDC1910]

1 idiot missed the 'like' button

[reuven1936]

ביצוע  מדוייק ויפה

[amneris54]

excellent

la sonorité d'orchestre

les tempi

thks

[jmgerrits]

Beautiful. I've Take It On My Hyves.

Thank You For Making It.

Marianne

[gino7lord]

today it is his birthday 2 march