Ars Antiqua Austria

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Ars Antiqua Austria is an ensemble of historically informed performance practice .

description

The international "Ensemble for New Baroque Music", founded in 1993 by Gunar Letzbor on the occasion of the first CD recording, is dedicated in particular to the "Austrian Baroque sound" that emerged from the diversity of the landscapes and peoples of the Habsburg Monarchy . A special expression of this intensive preoccupation with the music of the countries ruled by the House of Habsburg in the 17th and 18th centuries is the concert program "Sound of Cultures - Culture of Sound" documented in a CD collection, in which Ars Antiqua Austria deals with the influences from Belgium, Bohemia, Burgundy, France, England, Spain, Italy, Galicia, Hungary, Transylvania and all the way to Russia on Austrian baroque music and that in the context of 90 concerts in the cities of Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Bratislava, Krakow, Venice , Laibach, Mechelen and Lübeck emerged.

To explain the term “Ensemble for New Baroque Music” Gunar Letzbor writes: “A piece that was composed yesterday but does not contain any new ideas, feelings or new musical material is 'old music'. A piece that is brand new, contains something new, but what is not recognized and musically understood by the performing musicians, strikes the listener as 'old music'. A piece that is 300 years old, has never been heard, and is imaginatively performed by musicians with open souls and hearts and with all the expressive values ​​available in the present is 'new music'. 'New music' can therefore only arise through appropriate interpretation. "

The ensemble has been organizing its own concert cycle every year since 2002 in the Vienna Konzerthaus , and since 2008 also in the Brucknerhaus in Linz .

Discography

The discography for the period 1994 to 2020 includes over 60 recordings of works by well-known composers of the genre.

  • Romanus Weichlein : Encænia Musices, 1695 - Vol. I.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber : Sonatae, Violino Solo, 1681
  • Romanus Weichlein: Encænia Musices, 1695 - Vol. II
  • Johann Sebastian Bach : Concerti per violino
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Four Orchestral Suites
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Psalm 51: Parodia dello Stabat Mater di GB Pergolesi. Cantata “King of Heaven, Be Welcome”
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Sonatas on the Mysteries of the Rosary
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Un carnevale a Kremsier
  • Pavel Josef Vejvanovský : Music for Trumpets and Strings
  • Georg Muffat : Florilegium Primum
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer : Seventeenth Century Music and Dance from the Viennese Court
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Grabmusik (Passion Cantata) KV 42, Gallimathias Musicum (Quodlibet) KV 32
  • Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani : Capricci Armonici op.4
  • Georg Muffat: Armonico Tributo
  • Francesco Bartolomeo Conti : Cantate con istromenti I-IV
  • THE SOUND OF CULTURES Vol. 1: Slovakia
  • THE SOUND OF CULTURES Vol. 2: Hungary - "Alla Zingara, Alla Turca"
  • THE SOUND OF CULTURES Vol. 3: Northern Germany - Lübeck
  • Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter : Dulcis Fidum Harmonia, op.4
  • Johann Joseph Vilsmayr : Artificiosus concentus pro camera distributus in sex partes, seu Partias à Violino solo, 1715
  • Antonio Caldara : XII Symphony a quattro
  • Antonio Maria Bononcini: Cantata in Soprano
  • Romanus Weichlein: Parnassus Ecclesiastico-Musicus, Ulm 1702
  • THE SOUND OF CULTURES Vol. 4: Poland - Krakov
  • THE SOUND OF CULTURES Vol. 5: Bohemia
  • Antonio Bertali : Prothimia Suavissima, parte seconda
  • GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO. Benjamin Ludwig Ramhaufski : Missa a 23; Joseph Balthasar Hochreither : Missa ad multos annos
  • Romanus Weichlein: Missa Rectorum Cordium, à 15, Lambach 1687
  • Romanus Weichlein: Encaenia Musices (1695)
  • Wenzel Ludwig Freiherr von Radolt : Viennese Lute Concertos
  • Johann Paul von Westhoff : Sei Partite à Violino senza Basso accompagnato, 1696
  • Karl Kohaut : Haydn's Lute Player
  • The Mystery of Sign. Mouthon - Charles Mouthon? 10 concertos of 5
  • Franz Joseph Aumann : Requiem
  • Johann Joseph Fux : Partite à 3
  • Antonio Pandolfi Mealli : Sonata à Violino solo op.4, 1660
  • Gregor Werner : Pro Adventu
  • Christoph Graupner : “Chalumeaux”: Concertos, Overtures & Sonatas
  • Joseph Balthasar Hochreither: Requiem (1712/1717)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Bach private: Sonatas BWV 1001, 1003 and 1005
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Fidicinium Sacro Profanum (1682)
  • D. Gio. Antonio Pandolfi Mealli: Sonata à violino solo. Opera terza
  • Johann Joseph Fux: Oratorium Germanicum de Passione (1731)
  • Ex Vienna - Anonymus: Anonymous Violin Music from Manuscript XIV 726 of the Minoritenkonvent in Vienna
  • Georg Muffat: Missa in laboratories requies to 24 votes
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Bach private: Partitas BWV 1002, 1004 and 1006
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes (1676)
  • Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter: Memnon sacer ab oriente (Vesper op. 5, Passau 1709); Franz Anton Hugl: Organ Works (from Hartmanns Orgelbuch, Passau 1733)
  • THE MUSIC FROM THE HABSBURG EMPIRE - The Austrian Sound of the Baroque era (CD 1; Slovakia; CD 2: Slovenia; CD 3: Hungary; CD 4: Poland; CD 5: Bohemia; CD 6: Moravia; CD 7: Spain; CD 8: Venice; CD 9: Rome; CD 10: Paris)
  • Tu Felix Austria: Habsburg Music
  • Ex Vienna - Scordato: Violin Music in scordatura from Manuscript XIV 726 of the Minoritenkonvent in Vienna
  • Georg Daniel Speer : War Stories - Musical-Turkish Owl Mirror (1688)
  • Antonio Vivaldi : The Four Seasons; František Jiránek : Violin Concerto in D minor
  • Ex Vienna - Accordato: Habsburg violin music from Manuscript XIV 726 of the Minoritenkonvent in Vienna
  • Carlo Ambrogio Lonati : Sonate da camera, from XII Sonate a violino solo e basso (Salzburg, 1701)
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Missa Alleluja a 36 voci; Nisi Dominus; Pastorella; Hic est panis
  • Georg Daniel Speer: Love Adventure - Musical-Turkish Owl Mirror (1688)
  • Rupert Ignaz Mayr : Psalms from Sacri Concentus (1681)
  • Carlo Ambrogio Lonati: Sonate da chiesa, from XII Sonate a violino solo e basso (Salzburg, 1701)
  • Rupert Ignaz Mayr: Sacri Concentus - Antiphonae (1681)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mannheim 1778
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Rosary Sonatas (new recording)

Awards

The CD recording together with the mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink with four cantatas by Francesco Bartolomeo Conti was awarded the " Diapason d'or " just one week after the presentation . Gunar Letzbor and the Ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria received a " Cannes Classical Award " for his recording of "Capricci Armonici" by Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani .

Stations

literature

Reviews of the CD recordings are repeatedly published in the specialist press and in daily newspapers.

media

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Letzbor, Gunar (2019): Considerations from the podium. Cologne, Verlag Christoph Dohr, p. 17
  2. ↑ Letzbor, Gunar (2019): Considerations from the podium. Cologne, Verlag Christoph Dohr, pp. 179–191
  3. ↑ http://www.ars-antiqua-austria.com/alle/ConcKrt.htm on the website of the ensemble