Thomas Albert

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Thomas Albert (* 1953 in Bremen ) is a German violinist , conductor , artistic director and professor .

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Thomas Albert started playing the violin at the age of six. He majored in violin with Josef Bayerlein, Siegfried Borries and Thomas Brandis . With Sigiswald Kuijken he specialized in the baroque violin and played with La Petite Bande . Albert was one of the founding members of the 18th century orchestra with Frans Brüggen and was a violinist with the Musicalische Compagney from 1976 to 1986 . The instrument with which he performs was built by Jakob Stainer around 1680 .

In 1978 Albert founded the ensemble Fiori musicali , which in addition to him included Niklas Trüstedt ( viola da gamba ), Stephen Stubbs ( baroque lute ) and Gerhard Kastner ( continuo ), but was later expanded to include woodwinds and brass and reached the strength of baroque court orchestras. Concerts with this ensemble have taken him through most of Western Europe, Poland, Russia and Bulgaria as well as the USA. A characteristic of Fiori musicali was the use of the mean-tone tuning for the music of the 17th century. Together with the Dutch choir Groningse Bachvereniging under Johan van der Meer , Albert led his orchestra as concertmaster in Bach's Johannes Passion (1979) and Handel's Israel in Egypt (1984).

In addition to Bach cantatas , cantatas by North German baroque masters were on the program, including the complete works of Georg Böhm , Nicolaus Bruhns , Franz Tunder and Vincent Lübeck . Albert brought Buxtehude's “The Last Judgment” to life for the first time . Baroque operas such as Handel's Almira , Albert's first stage work (1985), and Keiser's “ Masaniello furioso ” were performed for the first time in modern times, and other operas for the first time in Germany: Rameau's “La Guirlande” and Castor et Pollux as well as Handel's Theodora . To this day, his focus is on North German, Italian and French baroque music.

In 1982 Albert founded the Forum Alte Musik in Bremen, from which the Akademie für Alte Musik Bremen emerged in 1986 , the first German training center of its kind for historical performance practice. In 1989 he founded the "Musikfest Bremen", which he is still director today. Albert also conducts modern chamber orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and has been working on joint projects with the Beethoven Academy since 2002.

Albert has since 1986 at the Hamburg Academy of Music held a chair in baroque violin and baroque strings practice, also since 1986 as a visiting professor at the Conservatoire National in Strasbourg and has been teaching since 1989 as a professor at the Academy of Ancient Music Bremen , in the 1994 University of the Arts Bremen opened . In 2011 he was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French musical culture .

Discography (selection)

  • Matthias Weckmann: Ten sonatas for the Hamburg Collegium Musicum . 1979. Thorofon, Capella MTH 216. LP (with the Musicalische Compagney)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion . 1979. LP (with Marjanne Kweksilber , Charles Brett, Marius van Altena, Harry Geraerts , Max van Egmond, Harry van der Kamp; Groningse Bachvereniging, Fiori musicali)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concertos . 1981. German Harmonia Mundi, GD77006. CD (with La Petite Bande)
  • 17th century sonatas and suites . 1981, Recreation TGS 301. LP (with Fiori musicali; works by Schwartzkopff, Erlebach and Krieger)
  • Italian solo music around 1630. Toccate - canzone - sonata . 1982, Recreation TGS 302. LP (with Fiori musicali; works by Castello, Fontana, Merulo, Piccinini, Frescobaldi)
  • Sonata concertati . 1982. Teldec, 8.44010 ZS. CD (with the Musical Compagney)
  • Fiori concertati . 1983. Teldec, 8.44011 ZS. CD (with the Musical Compagney)
  • Henry Desmarest: Deux grands motets lorrains . 1983. Erato, STU 71511 REC 350. LP (with Barbara Schlick, Mieke van der Sluis, Harry Geraerts, Harry van der Kamp; Fiori musicali)
  • Georg Friedrich Handel: Israel in Egypt . 1984. LP (with Mieke van der Sluis, Hedwig van der Meer, John York Skinner, Theo Altmeyer, Peter Kooy , Harry van der Kamp; Groningse Bachvereniging, Fiori musicali)
  • Heinrich Schütz: Psalms, Concerto, Motets . 1985. Ambitus, amb 97843. CD (with the Musicalische Compagney)
  • Vincent Lübeck: Complete cantatas . 1986. Motet, CD 50181 (David Cordier, Graham Pushee, Harry Geraerts, Harry van der Kamp; New College Choir Oxford, Fiori musicali)
  • Heinrich Schütz: Christmas History; My soul exalts the Lord; The seven words . 1986. Dabringhaus and Grimm, MD + GL 3229. CD (with the Musicalische Compagney)
  • Heinrich Schütz: Love and Lament . 1986. Dabringhaus and Grimm, MD + GL 3230. CD (with the Musicalische Compagney)
  • JS Bach: Solo Cantatas . 1988. Dabringhaus and Grimm, MD + GL 3297. CD (BWB 56 and 82 with Harry van der Kamp and Fiori musicali)
  • From the sky up: Christmas cantatas and motets by North German masters . 1989. Ars Musici, AME30062. CD (with the Hanover Boys Choir, Fiori musicali; Harald Vogel , organ)
  • My mind to me a kingdom is . 1989. hyperion, CDA66307. CD (with David Cordier and Tragicomedia)
  • Reinhard Keizer: Masaniello furioso. Dramma musicale . 1993. cpo 999110-2. CD (with David Cordier, Wilfried Jochens, Harry van der Kamp, Hein Meens, Barbara Schlick, Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Schopper, Jelle Dreyer, Winfried Mikus; Fiori musicali)
  • Georg Friedrich Handel: Almira . cpo. 1998. CD (with Ann Monoyios, Patricia Rozario, Linda Gerrard, David Thomas, Douglas Nasrawi, Jamie MacDougall, Olaf Haye, Christian Elsner; Fiori musicali)
  • Johann David Heinichen: Dresden Wind Concertos . 1999. cpo, 999637-2 (with Laurence Dean, Martin Stadler, Hariett Herrle; Fiori musicali)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Brief vita on Concorso Internazionale (Italian), accessed on December 27, 2018 (PDF).
  2. ↑ a b klassik.com: Bremen Music Festival. Thomas Albert , accessed December 27, 2018.
  3. ↑ Petra Schellen: "The rigid four-four time is a misunderstanding" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 14, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 64–65 ePaper 50–51 North ( taz.de [accessed on July 16, 2018]).
  4. ↑ goethe.de: A Vital Alternative - A Look at 40 Years of Early Music in Germany , accessed on December 27, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Albert, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist, conductor and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen