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Active from
  
1987

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Albums
  
Brandenburg Concertos, Die Schöpfung

Awards
  
Classic Brit Critics Award

Members
  
Gottfried von der Goltz, Petra Müllejans, Katharina Arfken, Torsten Johann, Daniela Helm

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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".

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History

The orchestra is based in Freiburg im Breisgau. In addition to Baroque music, it has performed works by composers such as Beethoven, Schubert and Weber, and contemporary music.

The orchestra gave its first concert in 1987 and began touring abroad with a performance in Amsterdam in 1989. The first tour to America in 1995. Violinists Gottfried von der Goltz and Petra Müllejans from among their own numbers are the regular musical directors. The orchestra performs a quarter of its concerts with guest conductors such as Ivor Bolton, René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe and Trevor Pinnock.

Awards

The Freiburger Barockorchester was awarded the Echo Klassik 2012 as "Ensemble of the Year (Historical Instruments)".

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), directed by Gottfried von der Goltz (Carus 83.304)
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice. Performed by Bernarda Fink, Veronica Cangemi, and María Cristina Kiehr with the RIAS Kammerchor, 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) directed by Gottfried von der Goltz (Naïve-Astrée E8877)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 17 & 22 (K.453 & K.482) with soloist Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano (Harmonia Mundi 902147)

    • DVD

  • Kirchschlager, Angelika; Tomasz Stańko; Gottfried von der Goltz; ensemble amarcord (2004). Sounds Like Christmas (DVD). EuroArts Music International. OCLC 57126504. 

    • Songs

    Die Zauberflöte - K 620 - Act II - Scene 18: Aria for Soprano: "Ach - ich fühls - es ist verschwunden"2003
    He Trusted In God That He Would Deliver Him2006
    Messiah - HWV 56: Part II - no 31 Accompagnato "He was cut off out of the land of the living" / no 32 Air "But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell"2006

    References

    Freiburger Barockorchester Wikipedia
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