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Adrian Butterfield
Performer (violin) • Conductor
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Critics’ Praise for Adrian Butterfield
This is one of those recordings [Leclair sonatas Book 1] you will want to return
to again and again.
— Gramophone (UK)
Adrian Butterfield is now established as one of the most versatile period-instrument
musicians of his generation in the UK and abroad working as a conductor,
violinist-director, concerto soloist, chamber musician and teacher. A former chorister
of St. Paul’s Cathedral, a former music and academic scholar at St. Paul’s School,
Barnes and a graduate of Trinity College Cambridge, he is Musical Director of the
Tilford Bach Society and Associate Musical Director of the London Handel Festival and
directs ensembles such as the London Handel Orchestra and Players and the Theatre of
Early Music, Montreal.
His solo recordings include CPE Bach sonatas, Bach’s Concerto for oboe and violin
and Handel’s Violin Sonatas. His recording of Leclair’s 1st Book of sonatas (Naxos),
issued on 3 separate CDs, has just been released.
He leads the London Handel Players whose recent Handel recordings, of his Op.2 and
Op.5 trio sonatas, “Handel at Home” as well as the Violin Sonatas, all for Somm, have
received glowing reviews. He also leads the Revolutionary Drawing Room which
specializes in classical and romantic chamber music on period instruments.
He has conducted Bach’s B minor Mass, Handel’s La Resurrezione, Purcell’s
Fairy Queen, Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima e Corpo
andRameau’s Pigmalion and recent concerto appearances include Mozart’s
Sinfonia Concertante with the LHO and the Beethoven Concerto with the Hanover
Band.
He works regularly with the Southbank Sinfonia, is Professor of Baroque Violin at
the Royal College of Music in London and teaches on the Aestas Musica Baroque
Course in Croatia.
’This is one of those recordings you will want to return to again and again.’
— Julie Anne Sadie Gramophone Nov 09 (Leclair sonatas Book 1)
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