Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

The Ensemblehaus in Freiburg, seat of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, in March 2015

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (FBO) is an orchestra based in Freiburg im Breisgau that specializes in historically informed performance practice and mainly plays music from the 17th, 18th centuries and the first half of the 19th century.

activity

The FBO was founded in 1987 from student initiatives at the Freiburg University of Music , not least from students of Rainer Kussmaul . It regularly plays its own concert series in the Konzerthaus Freiburg , the Liederhalle Stuttgart and the Berlin Philharmonic . The FBO is on international concert tours and is now considered "one of the best early music ensembles in the world".

In addition to recordings and performances of the eponymous music of the Baroque period, there are also works from the Classical and Romantic periods on the program, and there are also “excursions” into New Music (e.g. Donaueschinger Musiktage 2006).

The FBO performs in major concert halls around the world (including Wigmore Hall , Lincoln Center , Concertgebouw Amsterdam , Palau de la Música Catalana , Cologne Philharmonie , Wiener Musikverein , Philharmonie de Paris ), often together with artists such as Christian Gerhaher , Philippe Jaroussky , Cecilia Bartoli , Thomas Quasthoff or the RIAS Chamber Choir . It is supported by soloists such as the specialists for historical keyboard instruments Andreas Staier , Kristian Bezuidenhout or Alexander Melnikow as well as the violinist Isabelle Faust and the viol player Hille Perl .

The baroque violinist Gottfried von der Goltz and the pianist and harpsichordist Kristian Bezuidenhout share the artistic direction. The orchestra is also regularly led by renowned guest conductors such as René Jacobs , Trevor Pinnock , Philippe Herreweghe , Ton Koopman , Ivor Bolton and Pablo Heras-Casado .

A small formation, the Freiburg Baroque Consort, prefers chamber music from the 17th and 18th centuries. The repertoire includes works by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber , Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and Antonio Bertali .

Numerous CD recordings, including compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach , Georg Friedrich Händel , Antonio Vivaldi , Georg Philipp Telemann , Joseph Haydn , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , were recorded. The orchestra publishes on the French label harmonia mundi and the label of the Carus publishing house . Several of these recordings have received awards. In 2013 the ensemble played the orchestral part in a production of Idomeneo produced for television , directed by Stéphan Aubé, with Gaëlle Arquez and Sophie Karthäuser among others .

Since May 2012, the orchestra and Ensemble recherche have been based in the newly built Ensemblehaus Freiburg with office and rehearsal rooms next to the old town hall and in the vicinity of the Freiburg University of Music . The legal form is a society under civil law .

Awards

• 2006
  • Reinhold Schneider Prize of the City of Freiburg
  • European Chamber Music Prize from the Pro-Europa Cultural Foundation
• 2007
  • two-time Grammy nominations
  • Critics Award of the Classical BRIT Awards , for Mozart's La clemenza di Tito with the RIAS Chamber Choir and René Jacobs
  • German critic award in the music category
  • "Best orchestra of the year" according to Opernwelt magazine
• 2008
  • Edison Classical Music Award (opera and choral music categories)
• 2009
  • Annual German Record Critics ' Award , together with René Jacobs, for Mozart's Idomeneo
  • "CD of the year" according to Opernwelt
• 2010
  • Grammy nomination, for Haydn's Creation with René Jacobs
• 2011
  • Gramophone Award , for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Sei Concerti per il cembalo concertato
• 2012
  • ECHO Klassik in the Ensemble of the Year category (historical instruments) , for their album Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Double Concerto for Violin & Piano (published by harmonia mundi)
• 2013
  • ECHO Klassik in the category concert recording of the year , for Mozart's piano concertos KV 453 & 482 (harmonia mundi)
• 2014
  • ECHO Klassik in the symphonic recording of the year category for Franz Schubert : Symphony 3 & 4 (harmonia mundi)
• 2015
  • Annual German Record Critics' Prize, together with Hans-Christoph Rademann and the Gächinger Kantorei , for Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor (Carus)
  • ECHO Klassik in the category Concert Recording of the Year , together with Isabelle Faust and Pablo Heras-Casado , for Robert Schumann : Violin Concerto, Piano Trio No. 3 (harmonia mundi)
• 2016
  • ECHO Klassik in the category concert recording of the year (18th century), together with Andreas Staier, for Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos for Cembalo (harmonia mundi)
  • Diapason d'Or Arte édition Septembre , together with Kristian Bezuidenhout, for Mozart: Piano concertos KV 413-415 (harmonia mundi)
  • German Record Critics' Prize, list of the best, together with Pablo Heras-Casado, for Mendelssohn: Symphonies No. 3 and 4 (harmonia mundi)

See also

• Opera casts at the Theater an der Wien since 2011
• Concert opera performances by the Theater an der Wien since 2006

Web links

• Official website of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
• Interview with the two concert masters Petra Müllejans and Gottfried von der Goltz in klassik.com , 2007
• Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Mozart: a playlist , All About Mozart

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eleonore Büning : Spirit of the violin. On the death of Rainer Kussmaul. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 30, 2017, p. 9.
2. ↑ Wolfram Goertz: Just not in line. In: Die Zeit , November 9, 2006, No. 46
3. ↑ Reasons of the jury for Idomeneo (2009) , accessed on April 25, 2011.
4. ^ Price announcement for Idomeneo from Opernwelt , November 6, 2009, accessed on April 25, 2011.
5. ↑ Homepage Echo Klassik ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ echoklassik.de - Prize Winner 2013 ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 7, 2013  
7. ↑ Echoklassik.de Klassik Prize Winner 2014 ( Memento from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 26, 2014
8. ↑ Echoklassik.de Klassik Prize Winner 2015 ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 19, 2015.