Alec Sherman Vinyl Record Albums

He was born in London in 1907. He began his career as violinist at the BBC Symphonic Orchestra in 1930. He founded the New London Orchestra and became its conductor since 1941. During the period 1943-45 he was co-director of the Sadler’s Wells Theatre ballet and later worked as a conductor in Portugal and the weekly concerts of the Cambridge Theatre in London. After the war, he met Gina Bachauer in London and married her in 1951. Since then, he partly abandoned his upcoming career to focus on promoting the professional aspirations of his wife. With her, he participated in concerts around the world and recorded numerous significant vinyl records (labels HMV, Capitol, RCS), several of which have been commercially reissued (labels NAXOS, Hyperion, IPAM, Nickson, ΕΜΙ). In addition, he has recorded works of Greek composers (Christou Symphony No 1, Oratorio “Tongues of Fire” and more) while he also maintained a close personal relationship with Manolis Kalomiris. He passed away at a ripe old age in 2008. Alec Sherman collaborated with the GNO on two occasions in 1951, conducting works of Manolis Kalomiris at the first presentation of his oper The Shadowy Waters [Ta ksotika nera] and the ballet The Death of the Valiant Woman [O thanatos tis antreiomenis].