Chamber Orchestra Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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General information
Genre (s) Classical music
founding 1969 as chamber orchestra Musica Nova of the German State Opera Berlin
resolution May 1, 2014
Website haenchen.net/cpebach-berlin/

history

The later Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1969 by the composer Jean Kurt Forest to perform contemporary works at the Berlin State Opera with the support of the artistic director Hans Pischner from members of the Staatskapelle Berlin. Jean Kurt Forest's successor was Dieter-Gerhardt Worm as artistic director.

This special orchestra for modern music changed its profile in 1980 with the beginning of the collaboration and later appointment of Hartmut Haenchen as artistic director to the early classical repertoire, especially to that of the namesake and his contemporaries. The reason for this change was the regulation by the SED leadership, which influenced which of the contemporary works should be played. From these experiences the idea arose to look for discoveries in the history of music in Berlin and to make Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , chamber harpsichordist of Frederick the Great , his namesake.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, whose music ranks among the avant-garde of the 18th century, was largely forgotten in the 1980s. The numerous, partly first-time recordings of the works of C. Ph. E. Bach have been honored with many prizes. In Berlin's musical life, the C. Ph. E. Bach chamber orchestra stood as a "trademark for excellent quality and unmistakability" (Berliner Zeitung). Tours and invitations to festivals followed. The chamber orchestra has made guest appearances in Japan, Italy, Austria (Salzburg Festival, Vienna Music Weeks), Holland, Spain, Poland and Switzerland and has been a frequent guest at important German festivals, including the Brandenburg Music Summer , Dresden Music Festival , Ludwigsburg Castle Festival , Mozart Festival Würzburg , Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival , Schwetzingen SWR Festival , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival . It made music with world-class soloists such as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Anne-Sophie Mutter , Deborah Polaski , Swjatoslaw Richter , Christine Schäfer and Frank Peter Zimmermann , as well as Peter Schreier as singer and conductor. TV productions, radio broadcasts and 62 CDs and DVDs document the artistic quality of the ensemble.

The chamber orchestra continuously expanded its repertoire from the baroque to the classical to the romantic to the classical modern. Richard Strauss and Dmitri Schostakowitsch were developed as well as Schubert, Mozart or, to a special extent, Joseph Haydn . The centerpiece of the orchestra, which included 25 musicians (strings and winds) from all of Berlin's top orchestras, and its director, has been a series of concerts since 1984 with five concerts each season in the Great Hall of the Berlin Konzerthaus and in the Chamber Music Hall of the Philharmonie . Numerous rediscovered works, especially from the Berlin-Brandenburg music tradition, were performed again for the first time as part of the subscription series. The economic independence of this series was a financial and organizational challenge every year, which the chamber orchestra mastered without public funding and with waiver of fees by all involved.

In 2014 the chamber orchestra could look back on 45 years of music and contemporary history and celebrate a 34-year collaboration with Hartmut Haenchen. On May 1, 2014, the ensemble disbanded and ended its concert activities.

The style of the chamber orchestra

Under the direction of Hartmut Haenchen , a specific understanding of music, musical-structural thinking and virtuosity determined the successful interpretations of the ensemble. “The orchestra plays instruments of our time without ignoring traditional performance practice. The result is extraordinarily intense and lively reproductions that are rooted in the score and are not exhausted in an outwardly historicizing sound «(FonoForum). The concerts and recordings were characterized by alertness and agility, »finely graded agogic nuances, precise sounding and moderation of the sound spaces, controlled expressivity« (Berliner Zeitung) make them unmistakable. When setting up the sheet music, Hartmut Haenchen used a knowledge repository of more than 200 theoretical writings from the 16th to 18th centuries. Century back. However, they were not the basis for the "authentic" performance, which cannot exist, but for one (of many) possible interpretation based on stylistic knowledge. In order to present the issue of a historical composition in a meaningful way today, the interpretation placed the emphasis on the contents and statements that can still be understood today.

Discography (chronological selection)

Recordings under Hartmut Haenchen

  • Pre-Classical Horn Concerts with Peter Damm, 1981, BERLIN Classics 0032102BC
  • Friedrich II .: Symphonies and Flute Concerts with Manfred Friedrich, 1982, CAPRICCIO 10064, awarded as record of the month
  • Oboe concerts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Ferlendis and Franz Anton Rößler with Burkhard Glätzner, 1984, CAPRICCIO 10 087
  • C.Ph.E. Bach: Berliner Sinfonie, 1985, CAPRICCIO 10103, awarded the German Record Prize
  • C.Ph.E. Bach: Flute Concerts with Eckart Haupt, 1985, CAPRICCIO 10104 and CAPRICCIO 10105, awarded the German Record Prize
  • C.Ph.E. Bach: Organ concerts with Roland Münch, 1985, CAPRICCIO 10135, awarded the German Record Prize
  • C.Ph.E. Bach: String Symphonies Wq 182, 1985 CAPRICCIO 51 033, awarded the German Record Prize
  • C.Ph.E. Bach: Four orchestral symphonies, 1986, CAPRICCIO 10175 awarded the German Record Prize, award in the magazine "Scala" as one of the top 50 recordings of the 20th century
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Concerts and Concerto for Flute with Werner Tast, 1987, ETERNA 7 28 022CD
  • Georg Friedrich Händel: Arias with Jochen Kowalski, 1987, ETERNA 3 29 099, Prize of the German Record Critics
  • Joseph Haydn: Symphonies No. 26, 44, 49, 1988, BERLIN Classics 1013-2, CD of the year 1993 AVRO's Platenzaak
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice , 1988, CAPRICCIO 60008-2, Prize of the German Record Critics, Grammophon Award Nomination
  • C.Ph.E. Bach: Magnificat and two Berlin symphonies with Věnceslava Hrubá-Freiberger , Barbara Bornemann, Peter Schreier, Olaf Bär, 1988, BERLIN Classics 0110 011
  • Joseph Haydn: Symphonies 43,45,59, 1989, BERLIN Classics 0110 014
  • Joseph Haydn: Symphonies 31, 73, 82, 1989, BERLIN Classics BC 1028-2
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia concertante KV 297b and concert for flute and harp with Werner Tast and Katharina Hanstedt, 1990, BERLIN Classics 0120 004
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concertone and Sinfonia concertante KV 364 with Thorsten Rosenbusch, Christian Trompler and Erich Krüger, 1990, BERLIN Classics 0120 003
  • Joseph Haydn: Symphonies 48,53,85, 1990, BERLIN Classics 0110 024
  • Carl Maria von Weber: Symphony No. 1 in C major; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Symphony No. 10 in B minor; Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade; Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, 1991, SONY Classical SK 53109
  • Concert at the Prussian Court with Thorsten Rosenbusch, Erich Krüger, Christian Trompler, Karl-Heinz Schröter, Christine Schornsheim, Klaus Kirbach, 1991, BERLIN Classics 1040-2
  • Joseph Haydn: Symphonies 94,103,60, 1991, BERLIN Classics 1027-2
  • C.Ph.E. Bach: Symphony in D major; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A little night music ; Johann Sebastian Bach: 3rd Brandenburg Concerto; Benjamin Britten: Simple Symphony; Georg Friedrich Händel: Wassermusik Suite No. 2, 1991, SONY Classical SK 4806
  • Giovanni Pergolesi: Stabat mater with Dennis Naseband and Jochen Kowalski, 1992, BERLIN Classics BC 1047-2
  • Gustav Mahler - String Quartet Arrangements: Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor Op. 95, Franz Schubert: String Quartet in D minor D 810 “Death and the Maiden”, 1992, BERLIN Classics 0010642
  • Italian and German Christmas Music, 1992, SONY Classical S2K 53266
  • Water music: Georg Friedrich Händel and Georg Philipp Telemann, 1992, BERLIN Classics 1051-2
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concert arias with Christiane Oelze, 1993, BERLIN Classics 0013252BC, German Record Critics' Award
  • Joseph Haydn: Symphonies 22,55,64, 1993, BERLIN Classics 0011092BC
  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Das Orchesterwerk, 1993, BERLIN Classics B001FY2KVW
  • Pietro Locatelli: Concerti grossi Op. 7, 1994, BERLIN Classics 0011332BC
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas 35, 169, 49 with Jochen Kowalski and Raphael Alpermann, 1994, BERLIN Classics 0011322BC
  • C.Ph. E. Bach: The last sufferings of the Redeemer with Christine Schäfer, Ellen Schuring, Thomas Dewald, Roman Trekel and the Halle Madrigalists, 1994, DVD: EuroArts 2060808
  • Johann Christian Bach: Symphony in G minor Op. 6 No. 6; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor KV 550 (1st version); Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, 1995, SONY Classical SMK 93831
  • 18th century cello concertos by C.Ph.E. Bach (A major), Nicola Porpora (G major), Joseph Haydn (No. 2 in D major) with Jens Peter Maintz, 1996, PHILIPS 456015-2
  • Johann David Heinichen: La gara degli dei with Alexandra Coku, Carola Höhn, Simone Nold, Katharina Kammerloher, Carola Höhn, Annette Markert, Ralph Eschrig, Olaf Bär, 2003, Berlin Classics 0300544BC
  • Classical violin concerts. Works by WA Mozart (Rondo in C major KV 373, concert in G major KV 216), M. Haydn (concert in B major), F. Schubert (Rondo in A major D 438) with Baiba Skride, 2004, SONY Classical 92939
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento in E flat major KV 113, Piano Concerto in D minor with Stefan Vladar , Symphony No. 41 in C major (Jupiter), 2005, DVD EuroArts 2055088
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Discovering Masterpieces: Jupiter Symphony with an introduction by Hartmut Haenchen, 2006, DVD EuroArts 2056018
  • C.Ph.E. Bach: The Last Sorrows of the Redeemer with Christina Landshamer, Christiane Oelze, Anke Vondung, Maximilian Schmitt, Roman Trekel and RIAS Chamber Choir, 2014, BERLIN Classics 0300575BC
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphonies 39, 40, 41, 2014, BERLIN Classics 0300587BC

Recordings under Peter Schreier

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The four orchestral suites, 1986; PHILIPS
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Brandenburg Concerts, 1986, PHILIPS
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat, 1987, PHILIPS
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Messen, 1989, PHILIPS
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas 51,82,202,208 with Barbara Hendricks, 1990, EMI
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La finta semplice , L'oca del Cairo , 1991, PHILIPS
  • Early classical flute concerts with Patrick Gallois, 1992, Deutsche Grammophone

(Numbers refer to the first edition on CD)

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  1. ^ Chamber orchestra Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ends its activity