Carlos Païta

Carlos Paita ( born March 10, 1932 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine conductor. Païta emigrated to Europe in 1968. He is one of the well-known and important orchestra conductors of the 20th century. He has worked with many prestigious symphony orchestras, appeared in major opera houses and has published numerous recordings of classical music.

Life and career

His Italian mother was a singer and pianist. His father was born in Hungary and emigrated to Argentina. Carlos Paita studied with Jacobo Ficher ( composition, harmony and counterpoint), with Jan Neuchoff (piano ) and Artur Rodzinski (conducting). 24 -year-old he made his debut as a conductor at the Teatro Colon. There he was given the position as a coach and led the South African premiere of Mahler's Symphony No. 2. His European debut was in 1966 in Stuttgart. The following year he conducted in Brussels and was then with Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in Karlsruhe. In 1968 he moved to Europe and gave concerts in France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Portugal. His recordings of works such as the Symphony Pathetique by Tchaikovsky, the First Symphony of Brahms, the Eighth Symphony of Bruckner 's Seventh Symphony and Dvořák received very good reviews.

Païta brought his Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra to Paris to perform works by Bruckner and went with the Royal Philharmonic in Europe on tour. His nordamerkanisches debut took place in January 1979, when he conducted the First Symphony with the Houston Symphony Orchestra Mahler. He also played many works V.A. from the 19th century as sound recordings (for example, on the Decca and Lodia ), including a Wagner program with the New Philharmonia Orchestra. Highlights of his live concerts were Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz at the Prague Spring, performances at the Enescu Festival in Romania, Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich, as well as concerts in Amsterdam, Paris, Bratislava, Sofia, Warsaw and other cities, va in Europe.

Musical Style

Carlos Paita preferred large orchestra and one at the romance of the middle to late 19th century performance practice -oriented. But he imitated not only his teacher Rodzinski or whose ideal Furtwängler, but soon found to his own style, which can detect a temporal distance from today's stylistic proximity partly to Karajan, partly to Georg Solti, although he was never so famous how these two.

Some recordings as sound recordings and other media

  • LO- 775 CD: Rossini: Ouverture's de " Semiramide ", " Guillaume Tell ", " l' Italienne à Alger ", " la Cenerentola ", " le Barber of Seville ", " la Pie Voleuse ". Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • LO- 786 CD: Beethoven: Symphony No. 7. Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
  • LO- 779 CD: Brahms: Symphony No. 1. National Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • LO CD 782-89: Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 7, 8, 9, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (2 CD.s )
  • LO- 776 CD: Mahler: Symphony No. 1 ( "Titan "). Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • LO- CD -770: Wagner: Overtures to " Rienzi ", " The Mastersingers of Nuremberg " and others, as well as Prelude and Liebestod from " Tristan and Isolde ". Philharmonia Orchestra
  • LO- 785 CD: Wagner: Gotterdammerung (excerpts). Ute Vinzing, James King, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.
  • LO- 777 CD: Berlioz: "Symphonie Fantastique ". London Symphony Orchestra
  • LO 772-3 CD: Verdi: Requiem. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • LO- 778 CD: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6. ( " Pathétique "). National Philharmonic Orchestra
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