Freiburger Barockorchester

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Freiburger Barockorchester (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra) is an orchestra originally founded "to enliven the world of Baroque music with new sounds." The orchestra, based in Freiburg, Germany now also performs works by later composers such as Beethoven, Schubert and Weber as well as contemporary music. They play small group chamber music as well as symphonies for large orchestras.

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra gave its first concert in 1987 and began touring abroad with a performance in Amsterdam in 1989 and came to America first in 1995. Today, half of the orchestra's concerts are performed abroad.

The musicians chose Gottfried von der Goltz and Petra Müllejans from among their own numbers as musical directors. (Both von der Goltz and Müllejans are violinists.) The orchestra performs one-quarter of its concerts under guest conductors, such as Ivor Bolton, René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe or Trevor Pinnock.

[edit] Selected discography

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Concerto in D for flute; Sinfonia in D minor; Concerto in E minor for Cembalo; Concerto in E-flat for Two Cembalos. Performed by Karl Kaiser (flute) and Michael Behringer and Robert Hill (fortepiano and harpsichord) with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra directed by Gottfried von der Goltz (Carus 83.304)
Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo & Euridice. Performed by Bernarda Fink, Veronica Cangemi, and María Cristina Kiehr with the RIAS Kammerchor and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra directed by Rene Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi 901742/43)
Joseph Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6-8 (Le matin, Le midi, Le soir). Performed by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (Harmonia Mundi 901767)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Arias from Lucio Silla; Die Zauberflöte; Il rè pastore; Mitridate, rè di Ponto; Die Entführung aus dem Serail; La clemenza di Tito; Zaide. Performed by Sandrine Piau (soprano) with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra directed by Gottfried von der Goltz (Naïve-Astrée E8877)