Apollo's Fire
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Apollo's Fire is an orchestra specializing in early music (Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical) based in Cleveland, Ohio.
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[edit] History
Apollo's Fire was founded in 1992 by Jeannette Sorrell, with the assistance of Roger Wright, then Artistic Administrator of the Cleveland Orchestra (now with the BBC). The orchestra received a startup grant from the Cleveland Foundation in 1992, and made its debut to critical acclaim in June of that year. Since then, Apollo’s Fire has performed in Toronto, Washington D.C., Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Columbus, Detroit, Pittsburgh, with the American Bach Project in Milwaukee, and the New World Symphony’s Baroque Festival in Miami. In 2004 Apollo’s Fire appeared at two prestigious international festivals: the Gilmore International Festival in Michigan, and the Ojai Festival (CA) presenting Bach’s St John Passion with “stunning eloquence.”
Apollo’s Fire is frequently broadcast on National Public Radio and can also be heard on Britain’s BBC, Canada’s CBC, European Community Radio, and in Northeast Ohio on WCLV and WKSU. Apollo’s Fire has been featured on several national holiday broadcasts on NPR as well as NPR’s World of Opera and SymphonyCast.
Together with Jeannette Sorrell, Apollo’s Fire received the 1995 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, given for an outstanding project involving the collaboration of scholars and performers, and was awarded the 1998 Northern Ohio Live Achievement Award for Classical Music.
[edit] Music Director
Jeannette Sorrell has quickly won international attention as a leading voice in the new generation of early music conductors. She studied at the Tanglewood Music Festival under Roger Norrington and Leonard Bernstein, was a conducting Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, and studied under Robert Spano at Oberlin College. As a guest conductor and soloist she won rave reviews for her 2001 debut with the Handel & Haydn Society (Boston). She is a frequent guest conductor for baroque projects at the Oberlin Conservatory, where she led a production of Handel’s Alcina in 2003, and more recently concerts of the Oberlin Baroque Orchestra. As a harpsichordist she studied with Lisa Crawford and Gustav Leonhardt, and took both the First Prize and the Audience Choice Award in the 1991 Spivey International Harpsichord Competition. She has performed as recitalist throughout the United States, France and The Netherlands and served on the faculty of the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute from 1990–1994. Jeannette Sorrell received the 1994 Erwin Bodky Award, given to an outstanding young performer in early music, and the 1995 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, given for an outstanding scholarly and artistic project. She received the Cleveland Arts Prize 2003 Special Citation for Distinguished Service to the Arts, and in May 2004 received an honorary doctorate from Case Western Reserve University.
[edit] Concerts
Apollo's Fire typically has five subscription concerts per year. Each is played in mulitple venues in Cleveland and the surrounding area. In the summer, they usually perform a Renaissance concert at the "Baroque Barn".
[edit] Discography
Telemann Don Quixote Concertos and Suites Released Summer 2005, KOCH KIC CD 7576
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466 and Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K.488 Released Spring 2005, KOCH KIC CD 7575
Scarborough Fayre: Traditional tunes from the British Isles & the New World Released May 2004, KOCH KIC CD 7552
Mozart Symphony No.35 in D, K.385 (Haffner), Symphony No. 41 in C, K.551 (Jupiter) and Overture to Don Giovanni Released May 2004, KOCH KIC CD 7574
Vivaldi and Friends Released October. 2001, ECLECTRA ECCD-2059
Vivaldi Concerto in B minor for Four Violins - Allegro (457KB, 3:53) Vivaldi Four Seasons - Summer - Presto (374KB, 3:12) Bach Concerto for Four Harpsichords - Largo (244KB, 2:04)
Monteverdi L’Orfeo Released April. 2001, ECLECTRA ECCD-2052
J.S.Bach Brandenburg Concertos Released Sept. 2000, ECLECTRA ECCD-2047
Bach St. John Passion Released Mar. 2000, ECLECTRA ECCD-2044
Noels and Carols from the Old World Released Oct. 1999, ECLECTRA ECCD-2041
Il est né le divin enfant (118KB, 0:59) Traditional French Sussex Carol Traditional English The Old Yeare Now Away is Fled Traditional English Guillo, prends ton tambourin (instrumental) Traditional French Noël Nouvelet Traditional French Sonate no. 2 in g minor (instrumental) G.P. Cima Sonate no. 1 in d minor (instrumental) G.P. Cima Sweet was the Song the Virgin Sang Traditional English I Saw Three Ships (87KB, 0:44) Traditional English Mystery Sonata no. 1 (instrumental) H.I.F. Biber À la venue de Noël (instrumental) M.-A. Charpentier Or nous dites, Marie (instrumental) M.-A. Charpentier Tell Me, Some Pitying Angel! Henry Purcell Vous qui désirez sans fin (instrumental) M.-A. Charpentier Joseph est bien marié (instrumental) M.-A. Charpentier El Noi de la Mare Traditional Catalan El Cant dels Ocells (instrumental) Traditional Catalan Fum, fum, fum! (instrumental) Traditional Spanish Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris Traditional French Riu riu, chiu Traditional Spanish
Monteverdi Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Released Apr. 1999, ECLECTRA ECCD-2038
Handel Messiah Released Nov. 1996, ONDA
