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The Lautten Compagney is a baroque music ensemble based in Berlin .
In their hometown, the Lautten Compagney gives concerts regularly in the Gethsemane Church , in Radialsystem V and in the Villa Elisabeth. The ensemble performs around 60 to 80 concerts and staged productions every year. The Lautten Compagney is a regular guest at festivals and theaters in Germany and other European countries, including the Gewandhaus (Leipzig) , the Dresden Frauenkirche , the Amsterdam Concertgebouw , the Vienna Music Association , the Warsaw National Philharmonic , the Rheingau Music Festival , the Mosel Music Festival , Boswiler Summer, Lucerne Festival , Oude Muziek Festival in Utrecht and during the Early Music Days in Herne . Guest performances have led to the Netherlands and Switzerland, Austria, England, Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic, New Zealand and in 2011 for the first time to China. The Lautten Compagney was and is a frequent guest at the Dresden Music Festival and the Halle Handel Festival . The artistic director Wolfgang Katschner is the winner of both festivals. Twice a year, Wolfgang Katschner and the Lautten Compagney invite you to AEQUINOX , the music days at the equinox in Neuruppin, Brandenburg .
founding
The Lautten Compagney was founded in 1984 by Wolfgang Katschner and Hans-Werner Apel in Berlin as a lute duo. At that time, the two founders were studying classical guitar at the Hanns Eisler University of Music .
Cast and partner
The Lautten Compagney plays with a variable line-up. Today she plays mainly in various chamber music ensembles up to the baroque opera orchestra. Regular collaboration combines the ensemble with the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin , the State and Cathedral Choir Berlin , the Calmus Ensemble Leipzig , the Ensemble Amarcord and dance ensemble of Sasha Waltz & Guests and Heike Hennig & Co .
The Lautten Compagney has been working with the associated vocal ensemble Capella Angelica since 2002 . The ensemble also works closely with the soprano Dorothee Mields . Since 2011 they have been conceiving opera productions together with the Milanese puppet company Carlo Colla e Figli . The ensemble also develops joint text-music formats with actors and has already worked with Friedrich von Thun , Katja Riemann , Senta Berger , Gustav Peter Wöhler , Dominique Horwitz , Eva Mattes and Fritzi Haberlandt .
The group of friends of the ensemble constituted itself as a Berlin society for the promotion of early music Con voce e tiorba and also supports projects beyond Berlin.
repertoire
The repertoire spans the beginning of the baroque period around 1600 to the romantic music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , the line-ups are accordingly variable and diverse. The focus is on German, Italian and English compositions. The ensemble's program includes both instrumental and vocal works. The latter range from song and aria programs to opera and oratorios.
As a music historian and researcher, the artistic director Wolfgang Katschner repeatedly performs almost forgotten works. Music by Giovanni Battista Bononcini , Bellerofonte Castaldi , Johann Philipp Krieger , Matthew Locke and Baldassare Galuppi was released for the first time on CD . In 2008, the Lautten Compagney and the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin organized a highly regarded concert with works by anonymous masters.
Bringing early music to a wide audience in its diversity and vitality is the declared aim of the artistic work. In their performances and productions , the musicians of the Lautten Compagney place particular emphasis on the imaginative execution of the basso continuo , a specialty of the music of this era, in which lute instruments play an important role. In the context of the crossover concept, references to modern music and other forms of expression (dance theater) and unconventional performance locations and forms are also sought. The aim is to integrate renaissance and baroque music into the present day by creating contrasts and encounters with contemporary music. On Good Friday 2014, the Lautten Compagney performed four passions by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach over the course of the day in four Berlin churches. Participants were vocal soloists and others. a. the State and Cathedral Choir and the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin.
Awards
For their CD Timeless the Lautten Compagney was awarded the Echo Klassik 2010 in the category Ensemble / Orchestra of the year (early music) .
In 2012 the ensemble received the Rheingau Music Prize for its creative concepts and the musical bridge between baroque and contemporary music.
Discography (selection)
- 2019: Circle Line , music by Guillaume Dufay , Philip Glass , John Cage , Steve Reich and Meredith Monk , dhm / Sony
- 2018: War & Peace 1618: 1918 , with Dorothee Mields , dhm / Sony
- 2018: Georg Friedrich Händel / Leonardo Vinci : Didone abbandonata , world premiere recording, dhm / Sony
- 2018: Misterio: Astor Piazzolla & Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber , with Julia Schröder, dhm / Sony
- 2017: Monteverdi: La dolce vita , with Dorothee Mields, dhm / Sony
- 2017: Georg Friedrich Händel: Nine German arias & arias from the Brockes Passion , with Ina Siedlaczek, audite
- 2016: Bach without words , Bach cantatas instrumental, dhm / Sony
- 2015: Maximilian III. Joseph : Stabat Mater in C minor , concert recording from February 27, 2015, Diözesanmuseum Freising
- 2015: The Travels of Marco Polo or Nothing About China! , Audio book with Eva Mattes and Wu Wei , Sheng & Erhu, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
- 2015: On the Trail of Marco Polo from Venice to China , with Wu Wei, Sheng & Erhu, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
- 2015: Rinaldo , opera by Georg Friedrich Händel, DVD / Blu-ray, Arthaus Musik
- 2014: Marienvesper (Monteverdi) , with Ensemble Amarcord, Carus-Verlag
- 2014: Praise the Lord , with Stadtsingechor zu Halle , Carus-Verlag
- 2013: How beautifully the morning star shines , German Christmas music of the 17th century, with Dorothee Mields, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
- 2013: BachArkaden , with Calmus Ensemble Leipzig, Carus-Verlag
- 2012: Bach - The Motets , with Ensemble Amarcord, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
- 2012: Love's Madness , music by Henry Purcell , with Dorothee Mields, Carus-Verlag
- 2012: Handel with Care , instrumental arrangements of Handel arias, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
- 2011: Johannes Eccard - I want to sing happily , with the Staats- und Domchor Berlin, Carus-Verlag
- 2009: Love Songs , music by Henry Purcell, with Dorothee Mields, Carus-Verlag
- 2009: Timeless , music by Tarquinio Merula and Philip Glass, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
- 2009: La Diva - Handel Arias for Cuzzoni , Simone Kermes sings Handel Arias, Berlin Classics
- 2007: Christmas history , Christmas cantatas by Heinrich Schütz , Dieterich Buxtehude and others, Berlin Classics
- 2007: Your noble heart, the love throne , music by Dieterich Buxtehude, Carus-Verlag
- 2007: O God's city, o güldnes light , music by Dieterich Buxtehude, Carus-Verlag
- 2006: Membra Jesu nostri , music by Dieterich Buxtehude, spatial sound
- 2007: The Messiah , music by Georg Friedrich Handel, text version based on Johann Gottfried Herder , Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
- 2006: Il Pianto D'Orfeo , with Kobie van Rensburg, New Classical Adventure
- 2005: Teseo , opera by Georg Friedrich Handel, DVD, Arthaus Musik
- 2005: Chirping of the Nightingale , music by John Playford , Berlin Classics
- 2003: La diavolessa , opera by Baldassare Galuppi, CPO
- 2001: Songs of an English Cavalier , with Kobie van Rensburg , New Classical Adventure,
- 1999: Capriccios , works by Bellerofonte Castaldi, New Classical Adventure
- 1996: Amore Dioppo , opera by Giovanni Battista Bononcini, New Classical Adventure
- 1995: The Broken Consort , Works by Matthew Locke , New Classical Adventure
Some of the CDs mentioned were made in co-production with public broadcasters.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Echo Klassik: Prize Winner 2010 - Lautten Compagney ( Memento from March 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The Lautten Compagney is awarded the Rheingau Music Prize 2012. Rheingau Music Festival, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved July 6, 2014 .