Lee Reynolds
Conductor
Lee Reynolds is an RPS Award-winning, Sky Arts Award-winning and Critics’ Circle Award-winning conductor with a reputation for bringing intensity and exceptional detail to his performances.
Alongside the acclaimed film production of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, current and recent highlights include Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Kurt Weill’s Street Scene at Opéra de Monte Carlo, The Merry Widow for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, broadcast concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra and three recordings on LSO Live, performances with the Filarmonica Toscanini, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Metropolitan Festival Orchestra Singapore and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, new productions of Rigoletto and Carmen at Opera Holland Park, La bohème with Welsh National Opera, his performance debuts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and recordings and performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Other highlights include recording projects with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, concerts with the National Youth Orchestra, Britten and Wagner in the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Ballet and Opera, performances with the Orchestra of Opera North, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Transylvania State Philharmonic, Sinfonia Smith Square and the Dublin Concert Orchestra, and conducting a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with Nederlandse Reisopera.
As part of an extensive catalogue of recordings, his 2015 recording of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Adolfo Barabino and the London Symphony Orchestra has been lauded in the international press. The world première recording of Vito Palumbo’s Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Francesco d’Orazio was released on the BIS label in 2023, while his debut recording on Chandos, featuring Weinberg’s Trumpet Concerto with Matilda Lloyd and the London Symphony Orchestra, has been widely acclaimed. Other highlights include Barber’s Violin Concerto with Min Lee and the Philharmonia Orchestra, and a recording of works for strings by Britten and Stravinsky with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
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"...so natural and so convincing that I do not think I have ever heard a technically better recording of a concerto for piano and orchestra. Credit must naturally be extended to the conductor, Lee Reynolds. Make no mistake, this is an outstanding recording in every way."
Musical Opinion
"La direction musicale du jeune chef anglais, Lee Reynolds, tout en élégance enjouée et percutante, donne de sa personnalité, sinon de sa personne, en fosse. Il parvient, progressivement, à enlever la patine classico-romantique de la phalange monégasque, aux impeccables soli de cuivres, aux cordes envoûteuses. Elle se montre, habitude de répertoire oblige, plus à l’aise dans la couleur dramatique que dans le crépitement sensuel de la danse (le jitterbug de Mae et Dick). Les silences pesants que le chef imprime à la dynamique du drame nourrissent progressivement le contraste, entre le comique explosif de l’hymne à l’Ice Cream et le tragique concentré de l’hymne à l’amour (et à la mort)."
Olyrix
"The production's musical values (of L'Enfant et les sortilèges) are impeccable. Lee Reynolds conducts his own chamber orchestration for 27 London Philharmonic players with tremendous clarity and fizz."
The Times
"Musically it's first rate. Reynolds' downscaled orchestration (of L'Enfant et les sortilèges) preserves the clarity and glitter to the score, and the LPO delivers it superbly."
The Guardian
"(...) Lee Reynold’s stylish, live-wire conducting. Reynolds was on fire from the explosion of the first beat."
Opera Now
"Lee Reynolds’ crisply paced conducting, in conjunction with the inventively choreographed production, maintained a vibrant dramatic momentum"
Evening Standard
"Lee Reynolds and the City of London Sinfonia are on fine form (...) Reynolds is unfailingly musical, and there’s a sense of an organic, fleet account of the score to be revealed."
The Arts Desk
"Reynolds's pacing and support are superlative and the City of London Sinfonia obviously enjoy playing for him"
Opera Today
"(...) a performance bristling with dramatic tension. With the City of London Sinfonia and Opera Holland Park Chorus on fine form, this score's unique "tinta" is unmistakable; Reynolds ensures that the music's Mediterranean passion is never suffocated by the stuffy milieu portrayed onstage"
The Telegraph
"Reynolds's crisply paced conducting, in conjunction with the inventively choreographed production, maintained a vibrant dramatic momentum"
The Evening Standard
"The musical standards are high, with the City of London Sinfonia and the OHP Chorus under the direction of Lee Reynolds, and with the great quartet in the storm scene resonating with baleful clarity"
iNews
"a vivid orchestral performance from Lee Reynolds and the City of London Sinfonia"
Bachtrack
