Freiburger Barockorchester
Freiburger Barockorchester (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra) is a German orchestra founded in 1987, with the mission statement: "to enliven the world of baroque music with new sounds". They are based in Freiburg im Breisgau, hence the name, and have recently started performed works by later composers such as Beethoven, Schubert and Weber as well as contemporary music.
The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra gave its first concert in 1987 and began touring abroad with a performance in Amsterdam in 1989 and first went to America in 1995. Today, half of the orchestra's concerts are performed abroad. The orchestra performs one-quarter of its concerts under guest conductors, such as Ivor Bolton, René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe or Trevor Pinnock.
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.
Partial 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 René 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)
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