Enrique Jordá

Enrique Jordá

1911-1996 ES, San Sebastián
Conductor of Classical

Enrique Jordá (March 24, 1911 – March 18, 1996) was a Spanish-American conductor. Born in San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa, Spain), later on he was a naturalized US citizen.After conducting in Madrid, Cape Town and Antwerp, he was music director of the San Francisco Symphony from 1954 to 1963. He made several stereophonic recordings in San Francisco for RCA Victor in 1957 and 1958. He made several highly acclaimed recordings for Decca in the late 40s and early 50s of Spanish music with the London Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra and Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, including two recordings of Nights in The Gardens of Spain with Clifford Curzon as soloist. Several of these have been reissued on the Dutton label.

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Classical
Folk
World
Soundtrack
Latin

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Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi

Orquesta Sinfónica De Madrid

Discography

Title	Artist	Year	Type
The Three-Cornered Hat	Manuel De Falla, Enrique Jordá Conducting The London Symphony Orchestra	2009	Album
Rodrigo: Fantasía Para Un Gentilhombre Ponce: Concierto Del Sur Boccherini-Cassadó: Guitar Concerto	Joaquín Rodrigo, Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar, Gaspar Cassadó, Luigi Boccherini, Andrés Segovia, Symphony Of The Air, Enrique Jordá	2003	Compil.
Piano Concerto No. 3 / Classical Symphony	Sergei Prokofiev - Gary Graffman, Enrique Jordá, The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra	1994	Album
Le Tricorne - Ballet-Intégral	Manuel De Falla - Barbara Howitt, The London Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Jordá	1987	Album
Concerto Pour Guitare Et Orchestre En Mi Majeur - Onze Etudes Pour Guitare - Six Etudes Pour Guitare	Andrés Segovia / Luigi Boccherini, Mauro Giuliani, Fernando Sor / Symphony Of The Air / Enrique Jordá	1980	Album
Concerto N. 1 Op. 23 / Concerto N. 2 Op. 18	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Emil Gilels, Fritz Reiner, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Brailowsky, Enrique Jordá, The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra	1975	Compil.
Symphonie Du Nouveau Monde	Antonín Dvořák - The New Symphony Orchestra Of London / Enrique Jordá	1969	Album
El Sombrero De Tres Picos	Manuel De Falla, Enrique Jordá, The London Symphony Orchestra	1967	Album
Albéniz En Orquesta	Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Jordá	1965	Album
Classical Symphony / Piano Concerto No. 3	Sergei Prokofiev - Gary Graffman, Enrique Jordá, The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra	1965	Album
Piano Concerto No. 2 / Invitation To The Dance / Spinning Song • Scherzo • Andante And Rondo Capriccioso	Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Carl Maria von Weber, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Alexander Brailowsky, The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Jordá	1963	Album
Concerto For Guitar And Orchestra In E Major / Bach Suite No.3	Andrés Segovia - Luigi Boccherini, Gaspar Cassadó, Johann Sebastian Bach - Enrique Jordá And Symphony Of The Air	1961	Album
Theme And Variations From Suite No. 3 / Francesca Da Rimini	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Orchestre De La Société Des Concerts Du Conservatoire, Sir Adrian Boult / Enrique Jordá	1960	Album
Piano Concerto / Nights In The Gardens Of Spain	Edvard Grieg, Manuel De Falla, Clifford Curzon, The London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Enrique Jordá	1960	Album
Segovia	Andrés Segovia, Symphony Of The Air, Enrique Jordá	1960	Album
Music From Spain	Enrique Jordá, Orchestre De La Société Des Concerts Du Conservatoire	1958	Album
Nights In The Gardens Of Spain	Manuel De Falla - Arthur Rubinstein, The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Jordá	1958	Album
Nights In The Gardens Of Spain	Arthur Rubinstein, Enrique Jordá, The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Manuel De Falla	1958	Album
Symphony No. 5 In E Minor Opus 95 ("From The New World")	Antonín Dvořák . The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Enrique Jordá	1954	Album
De Falla: Nuits Dans Les Jardins D'Espagne / Le Tricorne	Manuel De Falla, Clifford Curzon, Enrique Jordá, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, The London Symphony Orchestra	1953	Album
Falla: NIghts in the Gardens of Spain/The Three Cornered Hat	Manuel De Falla, Clifford Curzon, Enrique Jordá, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, The London Symphony Orchestra	1953	Album
Nigths In The Gardens Of Spain / The Three Cornered Hat	Manuel De Falla, Clifford Curzon, Enrique Jordá	1951	Album
Dukas: L'Apprenti Sorcier	Enrique Jordá	1950	Album
El Sombrero De Tres Picos (Balleto Completo) "Manuel De Falla"	Manuel De Falla – Enrique Jordá Dirige The London Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Howitt		Album
Concerto No. 2 In C Minor / Songs Without Words-Spinning Song / Andante And Rondo Capriccioso	Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Alexander Brailowsky, The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Jordá		Album
L'Apprenti Sorcier / La Damoiselle Elue	Enrique Jordá, The National Symphony Orchestra		Album
Concerto N. 2 Per Pianoforte E Orchestra In Do Minore, Op. 18	Alexander Brailowsky, Enrique Jordá, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff		Album
The Three-Cornered Hat (Complete Ballet)	Manuel De Falla – Enrique Jordá Conducting The London Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Howitt		Album
Music From Spain	Enrique Jordá Conducting Orchestre De La Société Des Concerts Du Conservatoire		Album

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