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Richard Lester
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Richard Lester was a founder member of the celebrated ensemble Domus, with whom he toured worldwide and recorded most of the repertoire for Piano Quartet. In 1995 he formed the Florestan Trio, described by The Times (London) as “three players of amazing skill, intuition and rapport”. In 1999 they won a Gramophone award for best chamber disc, and in 2000 received the Royal Philharmonic Society award for chamber ensemble. They appear regularly at London’s Wigmore Hall, most recently celebrating their 10th anniversary with a complete Beethoven cycle, as well as the South Bank, at Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, The Proms and other major festivals. They have toured in Europe, USA, Japan, South America, Israel, Australia and New Zealand. The trio have their own annual U.K. summer festival in Peasmarsh, East Sussex.
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Richard Lester's reputation is to some extent ... being made by this massive project. Among his teachers were Bernard Roberts and George Malcolm; it was at Dartington Summer School that Lester's enthusiasm for the Scarlatti sonatas was sparked, by Valenti, and an earlier single volume from the same repertoire was released to great critical acclaim. Contributing to various publications in the area and holding several academic and performance positions in the United Kingdom, Lester's accomplishment with this huge undertaking for Nimbus seems likely to be his point of no return. It's a joy to observe.
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One of Britain's foremost cellists, Richard Lester has earned distinction as a concerto and recital soloist and as an accomplished chamber musician. He is equally at home in period instrument performance and in ‘modern’ and is associated with some of the finest performers from both fields. He is a member of the award winning Florestan Trio, and is principal cello with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE).
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One of Britain's most outstanding cellists, Richard Lester has earned distinction as a concerto and recital soloist, as an accomplished chamber musician, and as the principal cellist of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Alongside a career as a 'modern' player he is ... passionately interested and involved in 'period' performance practice.
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Helmed by Richard Lester, this affecting drama stars George C. Scott as a San Francisco doctor who begins a schizophrenic romance with socialite Petulia Danner (Julie Christie). to the handsome but physically abusive David (Richard Chamberlain). The excellent supporting cast includes Joseph Cotten and Shirley Knight.
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Directed by Richard Lester, who ... directed the band's debut feature film 'A Hard Days Night', 'Help!' made its theatrical debut in the summer of 1965. The story follows The Beatles as they become recipients of an outside plot that revolves around Ringo's possession of a sacrificial ring, which he cannot remove from his finger. As a result, he and John, Paul and George are chased from London to the Austrian Alps and the Bahamas by religious cult members, a mad scientist and the London police
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