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John Lanchbery

John Lanchbery is credited on 314 releases across 49 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1962–2022 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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314

Pressings credited

49

Albums

7

Decades active

2

In collections

Biography

John 'Jack' Arthur Lanchbery OBE (15 May 1923 – 27 February 2003) was an English conductor and composer who was famous for his ballet arrangements, and for his ballet adaptations of canonical works. He served as the Principal Conductor of the Royal Ballet from 1959 to 1972, Principal Conductor of The Australian Ballet from 1972 to 1977, and Musical Director of the American Ballet Theatre from 1978 to 1980. He continued to conduct regularly for the Royal Ballet until 2001. Lanchbery was widely considered (including by Rudolf Nureyev) to be the greatest ballet conductor of his time, and to be "a conductor and music director of unmatched experience" who was "directly responsible for raising the status and the standards of musical performance". Maina Gielgud stated that he were "the finest conductor for dance of his generation and probably well beyond". One critic wrote that "the music was always on its best behaviour" when Lanchbery was conducting.

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Credited work

314 releases · 49 albums · active 1962–2022

  • Performance · 423
  • Other credits · 77

Studios: Abbey Road Studios · Kingsway Hall · Melbourne Concert Hall · ABC Studios, Sydney

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Tchaikovsky
  • Herold
  • Hérold
  • John Antill
  • Bellini
  • Rudolf Nureyev
  • The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

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