This month: JOHN NELSON Conductor
MY FINEST MOMENT
Berlioz Les Troyens
Joyce DiDonato et al; Strasbourg Philharmonic/John Nelson Erato 9029576220 (2017)
Often when I am conducting a great piece of music with a fine ensemble I feel it is my finest moment. But in 2017 with the superb Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and a fabulous cast headed by Joyce DiDonato, Marie Nicole Lemieux and Michael Spyres we recorded Berlioz’s for Erato and promptly garnered all the major European prizes. My professional career began in 1972 with a concert performance of the opera at Carnegie Hall which catapulted me on to an international career and a life-long association with this extraordinary work. Fortunately, I waited 40-plus years before recording it for posterity.
