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	John Barbirolli (Conductor) - Short Biography
		John Barbirolli was taught to play the violin at an early age but changed to the 'cello at the age of seven, entered London's Trinity College of Music at ten and transferred to the Royal Academy of Music at twelve to continue his music studies.
		In 1926, John Barbirolli was invited by Frederic Austin, then artistic director of the British National Opera Company, to conduct on one of its provincial tours and made his operatic debut in Newcastle upon Tyne in September 1926, conducting Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette.
		John Barbirolli's arrival in Manchester on June 2, 1943 and his virtual recreation of the Hallé Orchestra from a small residual nucleus of players who had refused to go over to a full-time contract with the BBC Northern Orchestra, became a legend in Barbirolli's own life time.
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	John Barbirolli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barbirolli studied at the Royal Academy of Music; a 'Sir John Barbirolli Collection' of photographs and memorabilia is now kept there.
		Barbirolli became known for his ability to secure effective performances at short notice, and in the 1930's made many recordings with the LSO and London Philharmonic, accompanying concertos with leading soloists such as Kreisler, Heifetz and Rubinstein, most of which remain classics today.
		Barbirolli is remembered as an interpreter of Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Mahler, as well as Schubert, Beethoven, Sibelius, Verdi and Puccini, and as a staunch supporter of new works by British composers, in which his advocacy rivalled that of Boult and Henry Wood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Barbirolli (569 words)

	SoundStage! Sir John Barbirolli - The Columbia Masters, Vol. 1
		Sir John Barbirolli, who died in 1970, is remembered now as one of the towering conductors of his time, his greatness documented by more than a few outstanding recordings with British and Continental orchestra.
		Barbirolli was out in 1943: he went to Manchester, where he built the venerable Hallé Orchestra into one of Britain’s best and remained its chief until his death.
		As in those performances, there is in Barbirolli’s no sense of the music’s being "driven." It is doing the driving, simply allowed to move at its own natural momentum, and in consequence all the supposed likenesses to Borodin and Tchaikovsky simply vanish in the wholly Sibelian glow.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev577.htm (804 words)

	John Barbirolli: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1937 Barbirolli achieved a coup when he was invited to succeed Toscanini (Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957)) as conductor of the New York Philharmonic (additional info and facts about New York Philharmonic), a tremendously prestigious post.
		Barbirolli conducted the orchestra for twenty-five years, in many cities including the Cheltenham Festival (additional info and facts about Cheltenham Festival), where he premiered many new works.
		He also conducted the BBC and other London orchestras in concert and on records, and towards the end of his life renewed his association with EMI (additional info and facts about EMI) which produced a legacy of fine recorded performances, many of which have been available continuously.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_barbirolli.htm (362 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Barbirolli
		Barbirolli held positions as conductor of the British National Opera Company (1926), the Covent Garden Opera Company (1930-33), the Scottish Orchestra, and the Leeds Symphony (1933-36).
		After 1943, Barbirolli conducted the Halle Orchestra, Manchester, and was knighted in 1949.
		Barbirolli was noted for sensitive musical interpretation and for his transcriptions of early music for the modern orchestra.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Barbirolli (403 words)

	Sir Arnold Bax (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lady Barbirolli's memory is obviously as sharp as a tack and her text is filled with anecdotal details that really illuminate what it was like to live with such an emotional, warm-hearted and hyper-sensitive artist.
		Her account of their New York years sets the record straight that Barbirolli's relationship with the New York Philharmonic was warm and supportive but that his directorship was undermined by the New York press that had it in for him for reasons that had nothing to do with his abilities as a conductor.
		Barbirolli's arrangement was first given at a London Promenade concert in 1967 with Evelyn as the soloist.
	www.musicweb-international.com /bax/bbc.htm (1728 words)

	Sir John Barbirolli (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During the 1969-70 concert season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra,Sir John led the orchestra in a performance of Mahler Ninth Symphony, which was headlined "perfect' by critic Karen Monsen in her column in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
		John Barbirolli was born in Southhampton Row, London, on December 2, 1899, the son and grandson of Italian musicians.
		During the summner of 1966, Sir John, in Rome for a series of concerts with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, recorded Puccini's "Madama Butterflv" with a distinguished assembly of international stars and the Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
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	Sir John Barbirolli - In Rehearsal and Performance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir John Barbirolli (1899-1970) was one of the most important English conductors of the century.
		Barbirolli was knighted in 1949 and made a Companion of Honour in 1969.
		Among the players in the Scottish Orchestra during Barbirolli’s tenure was one of the foremost oboists of the century, Evelyn Rothwell (b.1911), whom the conductor married in 1939.
	www.vaimusic.com /VIDEO/DVD_4293_69415_barbirolli.shtml (324 words)

	Sir John Barbirolli
		For more than 40 years "glorious John": as he was affectionately called by Ralph Vaughan Williams in the dedication of his Eighth Symphony to Barbirolli, warmed the world of music with his relaxed, fullblooded, deeply personal interpretations.
		During the 1969-70 concert season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra,Sir John led the orchestra in a performance of Mahler Ninth Symphony, which was headlined "perfect' by critic Karen Monsen in her column in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
		John Barbirolli was born in Southhampton Row, London, on December 2, 1899, the son and grandson of Italian musicians.
	www.classicalrecording.org /zsirjohnbarbirolli/index.html (1580 words)

	John Barbirolli -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		After a successful career as a musician, Barbirolli went on to greater fame as the conductor of several renowned orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester, England.
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	Manchester Celebrities of Music, Theatre and Performance Personalities in Greater Manchester include Sir Charles Halle, ...
		Barbirolli, despite his Italian surname, was born in London, though he is associated with Manchester through his conductorship of the Hallé Orchestra, when he accepted the job of rebuilding it after the Second World War.
		He had shown an early talent in playing the violin, though he changed to the cello at the instigation of a rather dominant grandfather, and by the age of 11 he had given his first solo public performance with this instrument.
		It was Barbirolli, more than any other, who was responsible for raising Manchester's Hallé Orchestra from a relatively modest provincial ensemble to that of a world class orchestra of great renown.
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	John Barbirolli (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The announcement that the directors of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra have engaged John Barbirolli to conduct ten concerts in New York next season is a feather in his cap which he will proudly wear: it will also stimulate and encourage the group of young English conductors.
		Barbirolli is the youngest Englishman to conduct a first-class orchestra in America, for, as we know, he was born in London as recently as 1900.
		I met him first in 1929, and afterwards wrote of the rapidity of his advance during the interval from his student days: from the cello desk in the orchestra to the desk more prominently placed in front.
	www.musicweb-international.com /brian/zjbarbirolli.htm (564 words)

	John Barbirolli: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about John Barbirolli (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Barbirolli: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about John Barbirolli
		John (Giovanni Battista) Barbirolli (1899 - 1969), was a British conductor and cellist.
		As a young cellist he made some acoustic records, played in the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), notably at the first performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto, and was soon after the soloist in one of the earlier performances of the work.
	www.encyclopedian.com /jo/John-Barbirolli.html (514 words)

	Camera and Photo Store :: Sir John Barbirolli (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Barbirolli gives huge weight and drama to the main material of the opening movement (just listen to the hammered out, accelerating chords that lead into the recapitulation) while the second subject soars with a passion that Sir John seems uniquely capable of conjuring up with his groans.
		A lot of the rest of the concert shows off Barbirolli as an opera conductor, a very fine one who was grossly underutilised in the age of the LP.
		Barbirolli also manages to bring out Mahler's often grotesque woodwind details which are often lost in the mass of sound.
	www.iavor.com /Sir_John_Barbirolli-B00005UUP0.html (1650 words)

	Amazon.com: Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"; Elizabethan Suite: Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Even with all the great and serious drama that Barbirolli brings to the symphony, it still has more than enough warm human-heartedness to draw us into the ascending and expanding spirits of that sort of music Beethoven was to eventually reveal in mystic perfection in his late works.
		But as Barbirolli has triumphantly shown (and Klemperer and Giulini too for that matter), this is a symphony which gains most from a broad, spacious approach.
		Under Barbirolli's baton the first movement becomes much more realistic and broader than any other conductor.The second movement, the funeral march, is a scream for the hero, where Barbirolli broadens the tempo to create an impressing effect.
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	BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7 in E Major; BEETHOVEN: Overture to Egmont, Op. 84a; Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, ...
		The E Major Symphony of Anton Bruckner remained a staple of Sir John Barbirolli (1899-1970) from his first encounter with its magisterial length in 1939 with the New York Philharmonic.
		The present performance (26 April 1967) confirms Barbirolli's tremendous affection for the work (in the Nowak Edition) in which Barbirolli probes its knotty, often repetitive labyrinths for moments of transcendence.
		Always one to relish an epic canvas, Barbirolli allows the spaciousness of the design to sound grandly from the string pianissimi to the stentorian Wagner tubas that the composer utilized for the first time in any symphonic work.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1865 (656 words)

	Sir John Barbirolli \| Classical Music Online
		Barbirolli's performance is full of passionate fervor, but execution is often slipshod.
		British critics are nothing if not loyal, and they constantly trot out Sir John Barbirolli as a great conductor, even though it's fairer to say that he could be great at times.
		Nevertheless, this is a most definitely a performance to be reckoned with and infinitely superior to Sir John's earlier recording with the Berlin Philharmonic.
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	Original Artwork: Peter Gauld: Sir John Barbirolli (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir John Barbirolli was born in London on December 2, 1899.
		As a conductor, Barbirolli appealed to his audiences, exquisitely shaping the music according to its own inward style without projecting his personal feelings upon it.
		Barbirolli made his American debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra on November 5, 1936 and was received with such enthusiasm that he was selected to succeed Toscanini in 1937.
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	Perspective UK North
		The words were to come from friends and associates and from a private tape recording made at a dinner where he ate well, drank well and spoke the better for it.
		Barbirolli had been appointed conductor laureate for life by the Halle10 months earlier, having fIrst joined the orchestra in1943.
		Here, then, is Barbirolli, who began his career as a cellist.
	www.northtrek.plus.com /john_barbirolli.htm (1481 words)

	Classical Net Review - Maestrino - Great Conductors - Barbirolli
		Barbirolli's strings are not as prominent as Stokowski's (whose strings swirl around like some force of nature) but it is a damn good interpretation.
		My notes indicate that the recordings differ in that 1947 is passionate, 1956 (here) is mournful and subtler, and by 1963 Sir John's interpretation had grown to be world weary and wise.
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	Barbirolli, Sir John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		After being cellist (1920–24) in the International String Quartet, he organized the Barbirolli String Orchestra.
		Barbirolli held positions as conductor of the British National Opera Company (1926), the Covent Garden Opera Company (1930–33), the Scottish Orchestra, and the Leeds Symphony (1933–36).
		He became conductor of the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 1961.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ba/Barbirol.html (160 words)

	Conductor : John, Sir Barbirolli at CD Universe
		Barbirolli / Bartok / Goodman / Mozart / Szigeti
		Barbirolli / Bruch / Lso / Milstein / Ronald
		Barbirolli / Bax / Delius / Ireland / Lso
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	Sibelius: Orchestral Works - Sir John Barbirolli - Buy @ OpusCDs.com music cd store (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A lifelong champion of Sibelius, Sir John Barbirolli introduced his symphonies to many through not only his recordings but also through his numerous live performances with the Halle throughout Europe, and his work with the New York Philharmonic.
		This set was recorded between 1966 and 1970, by which time Barbirolli and the Halle had developed a rare empathy for these (at the time underrated) scores.
		A great conductor, Barbirolli had a special feeling for the Sibelian world, and this is superbly captured on these excellently remastered EMI recordings.
	www.opuscds.com /cd/26098 (225 words)

	BBC - Music / Profiles - Sir John Barbirolli
		One of the 20th century's great British conductors, Barbirolli performed with the best orchestras and soloists of his day, and is especially admired for his interpretations of Mahler and contemporary British composers.
		A brilliant string player as well as conductor his many recordings are testimony to the incredible dedication and attention to detail he brought to his music.
		As a child Barbirolli was a prodigy on the cello and at 16 played in Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orchestra
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/profiles/barbirolli.shtml (447 words)

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