Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir

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Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir is a Dutch ensemble based in Amsterdam that specializes in historical performance practice.

Organist, harpsichord player and conductor Ton Koopman founded the group in two stages. The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra was formed in 1979, the Amsterdam Baroque Choir in 1992. The ensemble has given concerts in the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) , the Barbican Center (London), the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Lincoln Center in New York.

The first joint concert choir and orchestra in 1992 at the "Festival Oude Muziek" in Utrecht brought two works of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber to premiere , Requiem (15 voices) and Vesperae (32 voices).

Koopman led the ensemble in recordings and concerts of the entire vocal works by Johann Sebastian Bach . The project began in 1994 and lasted ten years. The soloists included Franziska Gottwald , Ruth Holton , Lisa Larsson , Marlis Petersen , Sandrine Piau , Dorothea Röschmann , Sibylla Rubens , Barbara Schlick , Caroline Stam , Deborah York , Ruth Ziesak and Johannette Zomer (soprano), Bogna Bartosz , Els Bongers , Michael Chance , Bernhard Landauer , Elisabeth von Magnus , Annette Markert , Andreas Scholl , Nathalie Stutzmann and Kai Wessel (alto), Paul Agnew , Jörg Dürmüller , James Gilchrist , Guy de Mey , Christoph Prégardien and Gerd Türk (tenor) and Klaus Mertens (bass ).

In 2005 the ensemble began the project “Dieterich Buxtehude - Opera Omnia”, a complete recording of the works of Dieterich Buxtehude .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir on the Bach Cantatas website, 2001
  2. Dieterich Buxtehude - Opera Omnia ( Memento from September 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )