Apollo's Fire

For a book, see Apollo's Fire (book).

Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra is a popular and critically acclaimed[1] period-instrument ensemble specializing in early music (Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical) based in Cleveland, Ohio. The ensemble unites a select pool of early music specialists from throughout North America and Europe. Under the direction of Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell, the ensemble has been praised internationally for a fresh and vibrant approach to baroque performance, and for creative and innovative programming.

History

Apollo's Fire was founded in 1992 by Jeannette Sorrell with the assistance of flautist Kathie Lynn Stewart and 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 at such venues as the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Chautauqua Institution, the Library of Congress, the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Michigan, and the New World Symphony Orchestra’s Baroque Festival in Miami.

Apollo’s Fire is frequently broadcast on National Public Radio, including SymphonyCast, NPR World of Opera, and Performance Today, as well as many holdiay specials. The ensemble can also be heard on Britain’s BBC, Canada’s CBC Radio 2, and the European Broadcasting Union.

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.

Apollo's Fire also has a crossover/folk wing, specializing in traditional music of the British Isles and North America, performed on period instruments in an historically informed aesthetic. The ensemble was awarded a major grant through the NEA American Masterpieces initiative in 2009, for Jeannette Sorrell's innovative crossover program, "Come to the River: An Early American Gathering."

Discography

Messiah
Released Nov. 1996, ONDA
Released Oct. 1999, ECLECTRA ECCD-2041
Vespers of the Blessed Virgin
Released Apr. 1999, ECLECTRA ECCD-2038
Brandenburg Concertos
Released Sept. 2000, ECLECTRA ECCD-2047
St. John Passion
Released Mar. 2000, ECLECTRA ECCD-2044
Released October. 2001, ECLECTRA ECCD-2059
Vivaldi Four Seasons - Summer - Presto (374KB, 3:12)
L’Orfeo
Released April. 2001, ECLECTRA ECCD-2052
Traditional tunes from the British Isles & the New World
Released May 2004, KOCH KIC CD 7552
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
Don Quixote
Concertos and Suites
Released Summer 2005, KOCH KIC CD 7576
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

References

  1. ↑ Cummings, Robert. "Appollo's Fire - Music Biography, Credits, Related...". allmusic.com. Rovi Corp. Retrieved 21 October 2012.

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