I Barocchisti

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The Associazione Barocchisti - Orchestra Barocca della Svizzera Italiana is a Swiss chamber orchestra specializing in baroque music and historical performance practice , directed by Diego Fasolis .

Origin, focus

The ensemble emerged from the Società cameristica di Lugano , which - founded and directed by Edwin Loehrer (1906–1991) - has rediscovered important vocal and instrumental works of the Baroque since the late 1950s, and is now considered an international reference orchestra for performances Early music on historical instruments. The orchestra is made up of renowned specialists from Italy and Switzerland, who also frequently perform as soloists on an international level. The line-up varies from four to forty musicians. The ensemble regularly plays with renowned vocal soloists such as Cecilia Bartoli , Philippe Jaroussky and Julia Lezhneva , and works closely with the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera , which is also directed by Fasolis.

The repertoire of the Barocchisti essentially consists of works by Bach , Cavalli , Galuppi , Gossec , Handel , Mozart , Paisiello , Pergolesi , Piccinni , Purcell , Scarlatti and Vivaldi . Sound recordings are regularly combined with concert tours on the same subject. In 2008, the rarely performed Handel opera Faramondo was presented in Ascona and recorded on audio media. In 2013 a multi-award-winning recording of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Jaroussky and Lezhneva was released, which was then presented on a tour in Amsterdam, Essen, Baden-Baden and Lucerne. The close artistic partnership between the orchestra and conductor and Cecilia Bartoli led to the multimedia project Mission , the rediscovery of the baroque composer Agostino Steffani , which received an Echo Klassik and was nominated for a Grammy Award . This was followed by more Steffani CDs by the Barocchisti , the Stabat Mater and the Danze e Ouvertures , finally summarized in the exclusive collective edition The Steffani Project . In 2014, Bartolis CD project St. Petersburg , Baroque Music at the Tsar's Court, followed, the publication of which was followed by a long tour through Europe.

I Barocchisti have made guest appearances at the most important music festivals and opera houses in Europe and the USA, for example at the Settimane Musicali di Ascona or the Lugano Festival , in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and at Scala in Milan , in Gstaad and Stockholm , in Belgium , France , Croatia , Portugal and Spain . The ensemble made its debut at the Salzburg Festival at Whitsun 2013 with Niccolò Jommelli's oratorio Isacco figura del redentore , the first modern performance of the critical edition by Francesco Luisi , accompanied Franco Fagioli's aria evening in honor of the castrato Giambattista Velluti (1780–1861) and was released in 2015 for the first time Committed to Salzburg as an opera orchestra. They played in the scenic performance series of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride and in a concert version of Handel's Semele , both with Cecilia Bartoli in the title role.

Recordings (selection)

  • 2007: Paisiello: La passione di Gesù Cristo . Soloists: Roberta Invernizzi (Pietro), Alla Simoni (Maddalena), Luca Dardolo (Giovanni), José Fardilha (Giuseppe d'Arimatea). With the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera
  • 2008: Handel: Faramondo
  • 2011: Vivaldi: Farnace . With Max Emanuel Cencic (Farnace), Mary Ellen Nesi (Berenice), Ruxandra Donose (Tamiri), Ann Hallenberg (Selinda), Daniel Behle (Pompeo), Karina Gauvin (Gilade), Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (Aquilio). Virgin Classics / EMI
  • 2012: Mission with Cecilia Bartoli , dedicated to the rediscovery of the composer

Awards

Web links

  • Bach Cantatas , brief description of the ensemble (with three photographs)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2015: Semele program , 67f, also [1]
  2. ↑ Paisiello: Passione di Gesù Cristo - I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis. CD information from Allmusic , accessed on May 9, 2015.