Lukas Consort
The Lukas Consort is a chamber orchestra in baroque and classical formation.
repertoire
The repertoire includes concert music from the Baroque period, with a focus on the Concerti Grossi by Handel and the Brandenburg Concerts , overtures and concerts by Bach, classical works and compositions from the 20th century appropriate to the line-up.
history
It was founded by Viktor Lukas . Concert tours have taken the ensemble throughout Germany and to neighboring countries; This was followed by invitations to festivals such as the Settimane Musicali Stresa or the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , to radio and record productions and television recordings, especially as part of the baroque opera house in Bayreuth. The sopranos Edith Wiens and Ruth Ziesak , the pianists Ingrid Haebler and the Kontarsky brothers , the flautist Emmanuel Pahud and the trumpeter Maurice André and others worked as soloists with the consort.
Publications
The collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk was reflected in numerous CD publications. Orchestral works and concerts by Johann Sebastian and Johann Christian Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn, Salieri, Cannabich, Franz Chr. Neubauer, previously unpublished compositions from the music collection of the Counts of Schönborn and a new version of the Hasse opera Ezio were published . Widest distribution was a TV production of Consort from the Opera House Bayreuth , as the German contribution to the " Midsummer Night's music has been aired" in 33 countries on all continents and seen by more than 700 million people and heard.
Prices
- The CD recording of five symphonies by Mozart's contemporary Christian Cannabich , published by NAXOS , received the German Record Prize Echo Klassik .
Works (selection)
- Margravine Wilhelmine Bayreuth , audio CD, 1986, label: Lc 6404
- Symphonies , composer: Christian Cannabich, 1998, label: Naxos
- Mozart Harpsichord Concerts , 2005, Label: Lc 6404
- Antonio Salieri , 1991, label: Lc 6404
Web links
- Literature by and about Lukas Consort in the catalog of the German National Library