The musical garden
The Musical Garden is an ensemble for baroque music founded in 2012 at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and based in Basel . Here the members of the ensemble, the Catalan-Colombian musician Germán Echeverri Chamorro (violin and viola) and the three German musicians Karoline Echeverri Klemm (violin), Annekatrin Beller (violoncello) and Daniela Niedhammer (harpsichord and organ) studied historical performance practice .
history
As early as 2013, the ensemble won five international competitions. The musicians each won first prize at the Early Music Promotion Prize of the Saarländischer Rundfunk, the International HIF Beaver Competition in St. Florian near Linz , the International Berlin Bach Competition , the International Graun Brothers Competition in Bad Liebenwerda and the EUBO Development Trust Prize at the York Early Music International Young Artist Competition .
The ensemble's specialty is the German scordatura repertoire of the 17th century. In addition, it is the aim of the Musical Garden to bring forgotten music back to life. “The musicians look for the sheet music in libraries or digitized archives. Often the compositions are only available in handwritten form, so they first have to be deciphered and transcribed on the computer using a music program. ”The musicians of the Musical Garden play on instruments that are true to the original and use natural gut strings on their instruments.
The ensemble has recorded four records so far. In 2 violin voices each , the ensemble dedicated itself to the baroque trio sonatas for chorded (retuned) violins, which are otherwise simply avoided for practical reasons. On the next CD the ensemble offered early classical rarities from the music collection of the Basel businessman Lucas Sarasin. In the last two recordings so far, the Ensemble performed concertos by the Italian violin virtuoso Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello . In June 2020 , Der Musikalischer Garten and the violinist Gottfried von der Goltz recorded pieces by Giovanni Gabrieli , Henry Purcell , Gottfried Finger, among others , as studio recordings in the podcast # together playing out by SWR2 .
The ensemble performed at the music festivals in Potsdam Sancsouci, the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival and the Handel House in Halle.
Discography
- À 2 violin. Dead (2014)
- Guests in the Blue House: Trio sonatas from the Lukas Sarasin collection in Basel
- Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello - Concerti à 3, Vol 1
- Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello - Concerti à 3, Vol 2
Web pages
- Literature by and about The Musical Garden in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- The Musical Garden at Discogs (English)
- The musical garden. Friends of Early Music Basel, archived from the original on July 31, 2020 ; accessed on July 29, 2020 .
- The early music ensemble “Der Musikalischer Garten” # together SWR2. SWR2, July 29, 2020, archived from the original on July 29, 2020 ; accessed on July 29, 2020 .
- Musical garden and Radio Antiqua - Baroque discoveries. Deutschlandfunk, May 5, 2019, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
- The Musical Garden (website of the ensemble). Archived from the original on July 30, 2020 ; accessed on July 29, 2020 .