Fiori musicali (baroque orchestra)

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Fiori musicali ( Italian for 'musical flowers') was a baroque orchestra dedicated to historical performance practice .

history

The ensemble was founded in 1978 by Thomas Albert (* 1953). The core was formed by musicians from the Bremen area , which was expanded to include international artists. The name of the ensemble ('Musical Flowers') was a popular title of early Baroque composition collections, such as the Fiori musicali by Girolamo Frescobaldi (1635), and served as a program: The ensemble initially devoted itself to the Italian violin music of Monteverdi's time in a solo, smaller format and multiple choirs . The founding members included Thomas Albert ( baroque violin ), Niklas Trüstedt ( viola da gamba ), Stephen Stubbs ( baroque lute ) and Gerhard Kastner ( continuo ). From 1980 to 1982 Cleveland Johnson was a continuo player. This was followed by orchestral music by Muffat , Corelli and Vivaldi . The orchestra was later expanded to include wind instruments and reflected the cast of baroque princely chapels.

Fiori musicali gave concerts in many countries in Western Europe and the USA. As one of the first baroque ensembles, it was based on the mid-tone tuning and performed the Grands Motets by Henry Desmarest in the Chapelle de Versailles in the French low concert pitch. The concerts with the Groningse Bachvereniging were important milestones for the early music movement in the Netherlands: Bach's Johannes Passion (1979) and Handel's Israel in Egypt (1984).

The program also included cantatas from the North German Baroque: the complete works of Georg Böhm , Nicolaus Bruhns , Franz Tunder and Vincent Lübeck . The Last Judgment by Buxtehude was first performed again in modern times, as were other baroque operas, including Handel's Almira and Rameau's La Guirlande and Castor et Pollux, and Keiser's Masaniello furioso .

The last CD recordings were made in the late 1990s, the last concerts took place in 2001. The ensemble should not be confused with the British ensemble of the same name under the direction of Penelope Rapson.

Discography

  • 17th century sonatas and suites . 1981, Recreation TGS 301. LP (works by Schwartzkopff, Erlebach and Krieger )
  • Italian solo music around 1630. Toccate - canzone - sonata . 1982, Recreation TGS 302. LP (works by Castello , Fontana , Merulo , Piccinini , Frescobaldi)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Solo Cantatas . 1988. Dabringhaus and Grimm , MD + GL 3297. CD ( BWV 56 and 82 with Harry van der Kamp )
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion . 1979. LP (with Marjanne Kweksilber , Charles Brett, Marius van Altena, Harry Geraerts , Max van Egmond , Harry van der Kamp, Groningse Bachvereniging)
  • Georg Friedrich Handel: Israel in Egypt . 1979. LP (with Mieke van der Sluis, Hedwig van der Meer, John York Skinner, Theo Altmeyer , Peter Kooy , Harry van der Kamp, Groningse Bachvereniging)
  • Henry Desmarest: Deux grands motets lorrains . 1983. Erato, STU 71511 REC 350. LP (with Barbara Schlick , Mieke van der Sluis, Harry Geraerts, Harry van der Kamp)
  • Vincent Lübeck: Complete cantatas . 1986. Motet, CD 50181 ( David Cordier , Graham Pushee, Harry Geraerts, Harry van der Kamp; New College Choir Oxford)
  • From the sky up: Christmas cantatas and motets by North German masters . 1989. Ars Musici, AME30062. CD (with the Knabenchor Hannover , Harald Vogel )
  • Reinhard Keizer: Masaniello furioso. Dramma musicale . 1993. cpo 999110-2. CD (with David Cordier, Wilfried Jochens, Harry van der Kamp, Hein Meens, Barbara Schlick, Dorothea Röschmann , Michael Schopper , Jelle Dreyer, Winfried Mikus)
  • Georg Friedrich Handel: Almira . cpo. 1998. CD (with Ann Monoyios, Patricia Rozario, Linda Gerrard, David Thomas, Douglas Nasrawi, Jamie MacDougall, Olaf Haye, Christian Elsner)
  • Johann David Heinichen : Dresden Wind Concertos . 1999. cpo , 999637-2 (with Laurence Dean, Martin Stadler, Hariett Herrle)

Web links

Individual evidence

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