Modo Antiquo

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Modo Antiquo is an Italian early music ensemble based in Florence. Modo Antiquo is both a baroque orchestra and a medieval ensemble.

Modo Antiquo Baroque Orchestra

history

Modo Antiquo was founded in 1984 by Federico Maria Sardelli as a medieval ensemble; In 1987 it also became a baroque orchestra. His baroque debut with the Ballet des Saisons by Jean-Baptiste Lully drew an audience of around five thousand people. Since then, Modo Antiquo has published over 35 CDs in its two manifestations, the medieval ensemble and the baroque orchestra, given a wealth of concerts and made guest appearances at festivals across Europe.

With the recording of the Concerti per molti Istromenti by Antonio Vivaldi , Modo Antiquo received the nomination for the Grammy Awards in the category Best small ensemble in 1998 . Two years later, in 2000, Modo Antiquo received a second Grammy nomination for his recording of the Concerti grossi Op. VI by Arcangelo Corelli , which, according to the research results of Hans Joachim Marx and Franco Piperno, was performed for the first time in the version with wind instruments. Modo Antiquo became an internationally known baroque orchestra, especially through the rediscovery of Antonio Vivaldi's musical theater.

From 2000 to 2007 it performed a new opera by Vivaldi every year at the Opera Barga Festival and recorded it in collaboration with Westdeutscher Rundfunk . On June 12, 2005 Modo Antiquo gave the modern world premiere of the opera Motezuma by Antonio Vivaldi, which Steffen Voss had discovered; further performances followed in Barga and Düsseldorf. The demands of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin , owner of the opera's handwriting, which wanted to ban these performances, were rejected by the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, a judgment that wrote an important chapter in copyright and performance law. Modo Antiquo has had an exclusive contract with Naïve for Vivaldi's recordings since 2005 : With soloists such as Sandrine Piau , Ann Hallenberg , Paul Agnew , Nathalie Stutzmann , Anton Steck and others, numerous CDs have been released in the Vivaldi edition ( Arie d'Opera Foà 28, L'Atenaide , Concerti di sfida , New Discoveries , etc.). In 2009 Modo Antiquo recorded Ildebrando D'Arcangelo on Deutsche Grammophon on a CD with opera arias by Georg Friedrich Handel .

The medieval ensemble Modo Antiquo, directed by Bettina Hoffmann , is dedicated to concerts, recordings and research primarily on secular European music of the Middle Ages. In the years 1995–1996 it recorded the Italian instrumental dances in Opus 111, in 1999 a double CD with the medieval Carmina Burana . In 2000 it realized a historical-musical project on the music of the crusaders. A few years later Modo Antiquo discovered another tune from the Carmina Burana: the famous poem of Archi poet Confessio Goliae was so at the Festival van Vlaanderen in 2010 resound again in its original melody for the first time.

Discography (selection)

Baroque orchestra

  • Antonio Vivaldi, Orlando furioso 1714, World Première Recording, Naïve, 2012
  • Antonio Vivaldi, New Discoveries II , Naïve, 2011
  • Georg Friedrich Händel, Arie italiane per basso , Deutsche Grammophon, 2009
  • Antonio Vivaldi, New Discoveries , World Première Recording, Naïve, 2009
  • Girolamo Frescobaldi, Madrigali , Brilliant Classics 2009, Frescobaldi Edition, vol. 6th
  • Girolamo Frescobaldi, Arie musicali , Brilliant Classics 2009, Frescobaldi Edition, vol. 7th
  • Antonio Vivaldi L'Atenaide (3 CD), World Première & Complete Recording, Naïve, 2007
  • Antonio Vivaldi, I Concerti di Sfida , Anton Steck, Violino, World Première Recording, Naïve, 2007
  • Claudio Monteverdi, Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda , Lamento d'Arianna, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Mezzosoprano, Naïve, 2006
  • Antonio Vivaldi, Opera Aria , Sandrine Piau, Soprano, Ann Hallenberg, Alto, Paul Agnew, Tenor, World Première & Complete Recording, Naïve, 2005
  • Alessandro Scarlatti, Inferno , Elisabeth Scholl, Soprano, CPO, 2006
  • Antonio Vivaldi, Tito Manlio (3 CD), Amadeus Speciale, 2004 / CPO, 2005
  • Antonio Vivaldi, Orlando furioso (3 CD), Amadeus Speciale, 2003 / CPO, 2007
  • Antonio Vivaldi, Arsilda, regina di Ponto (3 CD), WDR, 2001 / CPO, 2004
  • Francesco Colombini: Concerti ecclesiastici; Motetti concertati . Tactus TC 585301
  • Arcangelo Corelli, Concerti Grossi op.VI (2 CD), World Première Recording with wind instruments, Grammy Awards Nominée 2000, Amadeus speciale 1998, Tactus, 1999
  • Antonio Vivaldi, Juditha Triumphans (2 CD), Amadeus / WDR, 2000, Tactus, 2002
  • Antonio Vivaldi, Concerti per molti Istromenti , Grammy Awards Nominée 1997, Tactus, 1996
  • Antonio Vivaldi, Le Sinfonie dai Drammi per Musica , World Première & Complete Recording, Frame, 2002, Brilliant Classics, 2010
  • Antonio Vivaldi, I 12 Concerti di Parigi , World Première Recording, Amadeus, Tactus, 1999
  • Antonio Vivaldi, Le Cantate per soprano (4 CD), World Prémiere Recording, Tactus 1998/99 (4 cd)
  • Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Sonate à tre op.V, Tactus, 1996
  • Antonio Vivaldi, I Concerti per flauto traversiere vol. I , Tactus, 1994
  • Antonio Vivaldi, I Concerti per flauto traversiere vol. II , Tactus, 1995
  • Alessandro Scarlatti, I Concerti per flauto , World Première Recording, Tactus, 1993
Medieval ensemble Modo Antiquo

Medieval ensemble

  • Secular Songs & Dances from the Middle Ages . Brilliant Classics (6 CD), 2006
  • La musica dei crociati . Amadeus Speciale (2 CD), 2000.
  • Carmina Burana . Amadeus Speciale (2 CD), 1999.
  • Dança Amorosa . Italian dances of the Middle Ages. Opus 111, 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Il Tirreno , Concerto di Modo Antiquo chiude Effetto Venezia , July 14, 1987, p. 24
  2. ^ New York Times , Lost Vivaldi Opera Finally Gets Its Music and Words Together , June 15, 2005, by Alan Riding
  3. ^ Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf, judgment I-20 U 123/05 12 O 355/05 , August 16, 2005