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Peskó Zoltán

conductor
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1937
 
15 February 1937 Budapest - 31 March 2020

Zoltán Peskó was born in 1937 in Budapest. He studied at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and studied further in Italy and Switzerland.

Following his debut at La Scala (where he has been a regular guest ever since), he has travelled far and wide in a career comprising opera and concert appearances with orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Radio Symphonic Orchestra, French National Radio, BBC Symphony and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. His extensive repertoire stretches from the renaissance to the contemporary music. In 1973 Zoltán Peskó was named the Chief Conductor of the Teatro Communale, Bologna and three years later took the same position at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice. From 1978-83 he was the Musical Director of the RAI Orchestra in Milan and working as the music Director of the Deutsche Oper, Düsseldorf-Duisburg.

He has made numerous recordings.

He died on the 31st of March 2020 at 83 years of age.
 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
1973 Dallapiccola, Luigi: Tartiniana Seconda; Due Studi; Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio; Parole di San Paolo CBS S 61490 LP
1973 Petrassi, Goffredo: Recreation Concertante / Quatro Concerto CBS S 61371 Own
LP
1974 1974 Holland Festival Radio Nederland 6808 323/324 2 LPs
1974 Dallapiccola, Luigi: Tartiniana Seconda; Due Studi; Ciaccona, Intermezzo E Adagio; Parole Di San Paolo Italia ITL 70019 LP / Reissue on CD: Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, ESZ84002 (1989)
1977 Petrassi, Goffredo: Récréation Concertante (Terzo Concerto Per Orchestra); Quatro Concerto (Per Orchestra D'Archi) Italia ITL 70021 Own
2 LPs
1977 Petrassi, Goffredo: Ottavo Concerto per Orchestra; (Primo) Concerto per Orchestra Italia ITL 70009 Own
LP
1978 Salieri, Antonio: Sinfonia "Il Giorno Onomastico"; Sinfonia Veneziana; Variazioni Sull'Aria "La Follia Di Spagna" Italia ITL 70052 Own
1978 Salieri, Antonio: Sinfonia "Il Giorno Onomastico"; Sinfonia Veneziana; Variazioni Sull'Aria "La Follia Di Spagna" CBS 74088 Own
LP
1978 Dallapiccola, Luigi: Three Questions With Two Answers; Maderna, Bruno: Aura Italia ITL 70044 Own
LP
1979 Petrassi, Goffredo: Secondo E Settimo Concerto Per Orchestra Italia ITL 70005 Own
LP
1980 Petrassi, Goffredo: Quinto Concerto Per Orchestra; Invenzione Concertata (Sesto Concerto) Per Archi, Ottoni E Percussione Italia ITL 70076 Own
LP
1980 Cherubini, Luigi: Requiem In Do Minore Per Coro E Orchestra Musica/Aperta LMA 3003 Own
LP
1981 Mussorgsky, Modest: Salammbô CBS Masterworks 79253 LP
1981 Musorgskij, Modest: Salammbô Musica/Aperta LMA 3006 LP
1982 Verdi, Giuseppe: 19 Brani Dalle Opere ERI Edizioni RAI - Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri 375519
1982 Salieri, Antonio: Sinfonia "Il Giorno Onomastico" / Sinfonia Veneziana / Variazioni Sull' Aria "La Follia Di Spagna" CBS Masterworks 37229 Own
LP
1982 Clementi, Aldo: ES Italia ITL 70090 LP
1982 Verdi, Giuseppe: 7 Sinfonie E Preludi Dalle Opere ERI Edizioni RAI - Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri 375394 LP
1984 Petrassi; Goffredo: Otto Concerti per Orchestra Italia ITL 70099 Own
4 LP / Reissue on CD: Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, CDC 103 (1996)
1985 Schnebel, Dieter: Schubert-Phantasie für Orchester; Diapason; In Motu Proprio Wergo WER 60108 LP
1985 Salieri, Antonio: Sinfonia "Il Giorno Onomastico"; Sinfonia Veneziana; Variaçiões Sobre a Ária "La Follia Di Spagna" CBS 160358 Own
LP
1987 Csajkovszkij-áriák
(Tchaikovsky Arias) 		Hungaroton SLPD 12824 Own
LP
1987 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Arias CBS Masterworks M 42174 Own
LP
1989 Dallapiccola, Luigi: Tartiniana Seconda; Due Studi; Ciaccona, Intermezzo E Adagio; Parole Di San Paolo Edizioni Suvini Zerboni ESZ84002 Reissue of Italia Records' LP (ITL 70019) (1974)
1990 Zinsstag, Gérard: Wenn zum Beispiel...; Innanzi; Foris; Trauma Grammont CTS-P 36-2
1990 Mysliveček, Josef: Il Bellerofonte - Opera in 3 Acts Supraphon 11 0006-2 3 CDs / World Premiere Recording
1992 Haydn, Joseph: Sinfonie Nr. 103; Schumann, Robert: Symphonie Nr. 3 Sony CD71043 Own
1992 20 ans de musique contemporaine a Metz Col Legno AU 31836 CD
1993 Zemlinsky, Alexander: Die Seejungfrau; Sinfonische Gesänge Op. 20 Wergo WER 6209-2 Own
1994 Dallapiccola, Luigi: Three Questions With Two Answers; Maderna, Bruno: Aura Italia / Fonit Cetra CDC 85 Own
Reissue of Italia Records' LP (ITL 70044) (1978)
1995 Bartók, Béla: Music for Piano and Orchestra Art Nova Classics 74321 27760 2
1995 Wagner, Richard: Overture and Baccanale from Tannhäuser; Siegfried Idyll; Brünnhildes Schlußgesang from Götterdämmerung Art Nova Classics 74321 27796 2
1995 Liszt, Franz: Les Préludes; Totentanz; Two Transcriptions by Heinz Holliger; "Tasso. Lamento e Trionfo." Art Nova Classics 74321 27787 2
1996 Petrassi; Goffredo: Otto Concerti per Orchestra Edizioni Suvini Zerboni CDC 103 Own
4 CDs / Reissue of Italia Records ITL 70099 (1984)
1996 Gegenwelten (CD 7-8.) Koch-Schwann 3-5037-4 2 CDs
Andere Welten - 50 Jahre Neue Musik in Nordrhein-Westfalen 7-8.
1996 Enciclopédia Interactiva DN De Música Clássica 10.: Joseph Haydn Alfa Delta AD-30023 CD-ROM
1996 Schubert: Sinfonia No.8 in Si minore, "Incompiuta"; Schumann: Sinfonia No.3 in Mi bemolle maggiore, op. 97 "Renana" La Stampa I-0696072
1996 Haydn, Joseph: Symphonie No. 103 en mi bémol majeur "Roulement de timbales"; Schumann, Robert: Symphonie No. 3 en mi bémol majeur Op. 97 "Rhénane" e.f.s.a. CMF 030 Own
Les Chefs-D'Oeuvre De L'Histoire De La Musique
1998 Frank Martin, Witold Lutoslawski and Jacques Ibert - Concertante Campanella Musica C 130045
1999 Millennium Classics Art Nova Classics 74321 65440 2 2 CDs
2001 Coriún Aharonián 2.: Los Cadadías - 9 composiciones Tacuabé T/E 35 CD Serie Música Nueva
2002 Musik der Zeit 1951-2001 Wolke Verlag ISBN 3-923997-98-1 2 CDs
2002 Ünnep
(High Day) 		Népszabadság NSZMR 002 Not for sale - only for promotion
2002 Dallapiccola, Luigi: Three Questions with Two Answers; Maderna, Bruno: Aura; Widmung; Pièce pour Ivry Warner Fonit 0927 43406-2 Own
2004 Music Colors - Hungarian Contemporary Music (1989-2004) BMC HMIC BMC PCD 015 Not for sale - only for promotion
2005 Torstensson, Klas: Stick on Stick; Urban Solo; Urban Songs Composers' Voice CV32 Composers' Voice Highlights
2007 Kurtág, György: Játékok; Szálkák; Grabstein für Stephan Ricordi Oggi STR 57002 HAL
2010 Manoury, Philippe: Pentaphone; Prelude and Wait; Sound and Fury Densité 21 DE008 Own
2011 The 50 Darkest Pieces of Classical Music X5 Music Group AB X5CD108 4 CDs
2011 Feldman, Morton: Neither - Opera (Words by Samuel Beckett) hat ART HATNOWART180 Own
hat[now]ART sorozat / Premiere recording
2013 Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1; Rihm: Gesungene Zeit Naxos 8.573271
2016 Stravinsky, Igor: L'oiseau de feu; Apollon musagète SWR Classic SWR19020CD Diaghilev - Les ballets russes Vol. 10
2019 Aharonián, Coriún: Una Carta Wergo WER73742 Own