Donald Runnicles

Sir Donald Cameron Runnicles OBE HonFRSE (born 16 November 1954, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish conductor.

Honours and awards[edit]

Runnicles holds honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (conferred in February 2011).^[28] In 2019, Runnicles was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.^[29] Runnicles was knighted in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to music.^[30]^[31]

: Symphony No. 9, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven

: I Capuleti e i Montecchi / Jennifer Larmore

Bellini

: Peter Grimes / Metropolitan Opera DVD 2008

Britten

Britten: / Bo Skovhus, Vienna Festival 2001.

Billy Budd

Britten: / Elgar, Davies, Turnage

Sinfonia da Requiem

: Orfeo ed Euridice (Berlioz version) / Jennifer Larmore, Dawn Upshaw, San Francisco Opera (SFO).^[32]

Gluck

: Hansel und Gretel / Larmore, Ziesak.

Humperdinck

: Die tote Stadt / Salzburg Festival 2004.

Korngold

MacMillan: Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 4/ , 2016.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

: Requiem / Levin Edition.

Mozart

: Symphony No. 39 and Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" / Orchestra of St. Luke's, 2011.

Mozart

: Carmina Burana / Hong, Atlanta.

Orff

: Turandot / Éva Marton, Michael Sylvester. SFO. (DVD, Naxos Records)^[33]

Puccini

: Capriccio / Kiri Te Kanawa, Tatiana Troyanos, Director: Peter Maniura. SFO. (DVD)^[34]

Strauss

Strauss: , and others / NDR SO Hamburg.

Ein Heldenleben

Strauss: ; Wagner: Liebestod / Christine Brewer.

Four Last Songs

: Tristan und Isolde / Brewer, Treleaven, Rose.

Wagner

Wagner: ; Strauss: Four Last Songs; Alban Berg: Seven Early Songs / Jane Eaglen, London Symphony Orchestra

Wesendonck Lieder

Wagner: Arias, Wesendonck Lieder / , DO

Jonas Kaufmann

Wagner: / 'Orchestral Scenes', Dresden Staatskapelle

Der Ring des Nibelungen

: Harvey Milk / San Francisco Opera

Wallace

Official website of Donald Runnicles

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Grand Teton Music Festival

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Interview with Donald Runnicles in Exberliner Magazine

by Bruce Duffie, May 1, 1995