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„Those wonderful Early-Musickers in Cologne“ (New York Times)
Passionate performance style and an insatiable appetite for venturing into uncharted territory are the trademarks of Concerto Köln. For over 30 years, the orchestra with the distinctive sound has ranked among the leading ensembles for historically-informed performance practice. With regular appearances at renowned festivals and in the great music capitals around the world, Concerto Köln is synonymous with outstanding interpretations of early music while also maintaining deep roots in Cologne's own musical scene. Projects with the Bayerischer Rundfunk Choir and Nordeutscher Rundfunk Choir, the ChorwerkRuhr and the Swedish Radio Choir, for example, demonstrate how highly Concerto Köln is valued in collaborations with vocal ensembles.
The 2017/18 season is marked by major international tours: with Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, Concerto Köln will perform in Mexico; with Valer Sabadus, it will present the CD just recorded (by Sony Classics) in Moscow and St. Petersburg; and with Vivaldi's Four Seasons, the ensemble, together with its concertmaster and soloist, Shunske Sato, will make appearances in Luxembourg, Malta and New York. For the first time, Concerto Köln will collaborate with the Nederlands Kamerkoor under the baton of Peter Dijkstra, performing Bach's Christmas Oratorio on tour within the Netherlands, Germany and Hungary. Furthermore, the ensemble will perform in Bucharest with the violinist, Giuliano Carmignola; in Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Munich with the soprano, Julia Lezhneva; and in Cologne with the violinist, Midori Seiler. At the festival ACHT BRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln, Concerto Köln, together with the ensemble Musikfabrik, will play the premiere of one of the commissions composed by Hèctor Parra for both ensembles.
For Concerto Köln, the 2017/18 season also features the launch of the project, Wagner Readings. This project, initiated and directed by Kent Nagano, will be an ongoing process in the years ahead and will involve working through Richard Wagner's Tetralogy, The Ring of the Nibelung, from a historical performance practice perspective. Both the Kunststiftung NRW and the Strecker-Stiftung assist in supporting the ensemble with this artistic-scientific project.
Mayumi Hirasaki, Markus Hoffmann, Shunske Sato and Evgeny Sviridov as regular concertmasters and Lorenzo Alpert as Artistic Director assume the leading roles within the self-governed orchestra. With their choice of projects, the musicians manage to prove time and again that artistic standards and popular success are by no means a contradiction in terms.
Notable conductors with which Concerto Köln has recently collaborated include prominent names such as Ivor Bolton, Kent Nagano, Peter Dijkstra, Andrea Marcon and Gianluca Capuano. The long-standing collaboration with René Jacobs is documented by several award-winning CD recordings including Mozart's Così fan tutte, Handel's Saul and Graun's Cleopatra e Cesare. By now, the ensemble is able to boast a discography of over 70 recordings, the majority of which are distinguished with awards such as the ECHO Klassik, the Grammy Award, the German Record Critics Award, the MIDEM Classic Award, the Choc du Monde de la Musique, the Diapason d’Année and the Diapason d’Or. Since 2008, Concerto Köln maintains close ties with the label, Berlin Classics, but collaborates frequently with other labels as well.
Concerto Köln is able to generate thrilling interpretations of standard repertoire as well, making the works sound as if heard for the first time. Such is the case with the recording of the Brandenburg Concertos as well as the brilliant, recently-recorded Four Seasons with Shunske Sato (both recordings under Berlin Classics). The latter was realized through a close collaboration with the high end specialists, MBL: In the quest to replicate a live experience, the concert was recorded without cuts and in the highest audio quality.
The acclaimed, multiple award-winning rediscovery of Vinci's Artaserse (Virgin) with Philippe Jaroussky, France Fagioli, Max Emanuel Cencic and Valer Sabadus in the main roles, attracted international attention. Recently-released recordings including works by Johann Sebastian Bach (with Giuliano Carmignola, the Bayerischer Rundfunk Choir and Mahan Esfahani, among others); violin concertos with Midori Seiler (Berlin Classics); as well as Mahan Esfahani's project, Time Present and Time Past (Deutsche Grammophon), are further testimony to Concerto Köln's wide stylistic range and high profile artistic partnerships.
As a cultural ambassador of the European Union (2012), the orchestra acts as a musical figurehead for Cologne and its province, North Rhein-Westphalia as well. To help in the realization of its ideas, the ensemble is able to rely on the support of numerous partners: The Ministry of Family, Youth, Culture and Sport of the Province of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Kunststiftung NRW and the Goethe Institute help to support the ensemble in its research and realization of musical projects. The RheinEnergie Foundation for Culture and the Foundations of the Kreissparkasse Köln play significant supporting roles in the musical education project, “Die Hörpiraten”. TÜV Rheinland aids in supporting the concert series, AfterWorkClassix, in which Concerto Köln presents an unusual program with rediscovered works. In addition, a close partnership with the High End Audio specialists, MBL, was established in 2009, providing the orchestra the opportunity to grapple with the topic of audio and playback of recordings.
La Venezia di Anna-Maria (Lieblingsschülerin von Vivaldi) --> CD-Aufnahme
Vivaldi – Sinfonia F-Dur RV 140 für Streicher und Bc. Albinoni – Concerto a 5 Op.10 Nr.1 in B-Dur Galuppi – Concerto a quattro Nr.1 in G-Moll für Streicher und Bc. Vivaldi – Concerto per Violino Es-Dur RV 260 per Anna Maria, erste Hälfte von 1720s´ Marcello – Sinfonia in D-Dur aus Oratorio Joaz SelM B692a (Venedig, 1726) Vivaldi – Concerto C-Moll RV 120 für Streicher und Bc. Vivaldi – Concerto per Anna Maria E-Dur RV 270 'Il riposo - per il Santissimo Natale' Vivaldi – Concerto in A-Dur RV 158 für Streicher und Bc.
"From the Opera House to the Harbour": portugiesische und brasilianische "klassische" und populäre Musik des 18. Jahrhunderts
Werke von Francisco António de Almeida, Pietro Giorgio, David Perez, Niccolò Jommelli, António da Silva Leite, Carlo Seixas, Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti sowie poluläre Tänze und Lieder unbekannter Verfasser
Caro Gemello (analog zur CD, VÖ Herbst 2018) --> von versch. Komponisten vertonte Libretti von Metastasio für Farinelli (V. Sabadus)
Caldara - Sinfonia aus dem Oratorium "La morte d’Abel figura di quella del nostro redentore" (1732) Caldara - "Io son quel buon pastore", Arie des Abel aus: La morte d´Abel Caldara - "Questi al cor fin ora ignoti!, Arie des Abel aus: La morte d´Abel Porpora - Sinfonia da Camera Nr. 1 G-Dur op. 2 (8´ Min.) Porpora - "Il pie s´allontana", Arie des Tirsi aus: L´Angelica Giacomelli - "Amor, dover, rispetto" A-Dur, Arie aus: Adriano in Siria PAUSE Porpora - Sinfonia in G-Dur, aus: L´Angelica Porpora - Arie "Non giova il sospirar", Arie des Tirsi aus L´Angelica G-Dur Porpora - "Alto Giove", Arie aus: Polifemo Akt III-v (4:40 Min.) Veracini - Ouverture VI in g-moll für zwei Oboen, Streicher und b.c. (10´30 Min.) Broschi - "Se al labbro mio non credi" f-Moll aus: "Artaserse" (Wien, zusammen komponiert mit A. Hasse) Porpora - "Senti il fato", Arie aus Polifemo Es-Dur HeIN 31
Locatelli – Concerto Grosso g-moll op. 1 Nr. 12 Avison – Concerto XI G-Dur Nr. 11 aus „12 Concertos in Seven Parts“ (arr. von Cembalo Sonaten von D.Scarlatti) J. S. Bach – Doppelkonzert für 2 Violinen d-Moll BWV 1043 PAUSE Marcello – Sinfonie D-Dur SelM B692a aus Oratorio Joaz J. S. Bach – Violinkonzert a-Moll BWV 1041 J. S. Bach – Violinkonzert E-Dur BWV 1042
Programm 2) Vivaldi + Bach
Dall’Abaco – Concerto d-Moll op. 2 Nr. 1 aus Concerti à quatro da chiesa (c1712) Avison – Concerto aus 12 Concertos in Seven Parts nach Cembalosonaten von Domenico Scarlatti D-Dur Nr. 6 J.S. Bach – Doppelkonzert für zwei Violinen d-Moll BWV 1043 PAUSE Vivaldi – Die Vier Jahreszeiten
“Über-Wunden” – Ein familienbiografisches Konzertprojekt anlässlich der 100. Jährung des Endes des 1. Weltkriegs
Musik: Haydn – Märsche für Militärkapelle (Marches for the Derbyshire Cavalery Regiment, March for the Prince of Wales) Mozart – Ouvertüre und Marsch aus La Clemenza di Tito Mozart – Marsch/Arie aus Figaros Hochzeit Mozart – Sinfonie Nr. 41 „Jupiter“ (KV 551)
Texte: Erasmus von Rotterdam, Ernst Jünger, Feldpostbriefe u.a.
Bildmaterial: Farbfotografien aus dem 1. Weltkrieg aus der Sammlung des Verlegers und Galeristen Reinhard Schulz Private Familienfotografien von 1908-1980
Locatelli – Concerto Grosso g-moll op. 1 Nr. 12 Avison – Concerto XI G-Dur Nr. 11 aus „12 Concertos in Seven Parts“ (arr. von Cembalo Sonaten von D.Scarlatti) J. S. Bach – Doppelkonzert für 2 Violinen d-Moll BWV 1043 PAUSE Marcello – Sinfonie D-Dur SelM B692a aus Oratorio Joaz J. S. Bach – Violinkonzert a-Moll BWV 1041 J. S. Bach – Violinkonzert E-Dur BWV 1042
Haydn – Sinfonie No. 3 in G-dur, Hob.I:3 Joh. A. Kauchlitz – Concerto a Mandolino Haydn – Sinfonie No. 26 in d-moll, Hob.I:26 Haydn – Sinfonie von Acis und Galatea (Acide) Giovanni Hoffmann – Konzert in D-dur für Mandoline Haydn – Sinfonie No. 44 ine E-moll , Hob.I:44, "Trauersinfonie"
Concerti à quattro Violini Valentini – Concerto Grosso a-Moll op. 7 Nr. 11 a sei, con quattro Violini obligati Bonporti – Concerto à 4 E-Dur op. 11 Vivaldi – Concerto für 4 Violinen und Orchester h-Moll RV 580, op. 3 Nr. 10
PAUSE
Vivaldi – Concerto für 4 Violinen und Orchester op. 3 Nr. 1 D-Dur RV 549 Geminiani: Concerto grosso D-Dur op. 3 Nr. 1 Castrucci – Concerto grosso d-Moll op. 3 Nr. 6 Locatelli – Concerto für 4 Solo-Violinen und Streicher F-Dur op. 4 Nr. 12
01.02.2020 bis 28.02.2020
Concerto Köln Partner: Vivica Genaux, Mezzosopran Dirigent: Leitung: Andrea Marcon
Vivaldi – Ouvertüre C-Dur RV 718 aus Griselda Vivaldi – „Alma oppressa“ e-Moll RV 714 aus La Fida Ninfa Galuppi – Concerto a quattro c-Moll Nr. 4 Vivaldi – „Tu dormi in tante pene“ d-Moll RV 738 aus Tito Manlio atto 1 Vivaldi – „Sposa son disprezzata“, Arie aus Bajazet f-Moll RV 703 Vivaldi – „Insolito coraggio – Nel profundo cieco mondo“ G-Dur RV 819 aus Orlando Furioso atto I scena 5 Castrucci – Concerto grosso a-Moll op. 3 Nr. 4 London, 1733 Vivaldi – „Non mi lusinga vana speranza“ a-Moll RV 719 aus L’Incoronazione di Dario atto II scena 6 Vivaldi – „Come invano il mare irato“ C-Dur RV705 aus Catone in Utica Vivaldi – Concerto für Streicher und basso continuo c-Moll RV 120 Vivaldi – „Gelido in ogni vena“, Arie aus Farnace f-Moll RV 711 Vivaldi – „Agitata da due venti“, Arie aus Griselda B-Dur RV 718
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: Ouvertüre C-Dur RV 718 aus Griselda Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: „Alma oppressa“ e-Moll RV 714 aus La Fida Ninfa Francesco Geminiani: Concerto Grosso No.2 in d-Moll, H.117 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: „Tu dormi in tante pene“ d-Moll RV 738 aus Tito Manlio atto 1 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: „Sposa son disprezzata“, Arie aus Bajazet f-Moll RV 703 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: „Insolito coraggio - Nel profundo cieco mondo“ aus Orlando Furioso G-Dur RV 819 aus Orlando Furioso atto I scena 5 PAUSE Francesco Saverio Geminiani:Concerto Grosso No. 3 in C-Dur (nach Corelli's Sonata, Op. 5, No. 3) Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: „Non mi lusinga vana speranza“ a-Moll RV 719 aus L’Incoronazione di Dario atto II scena 6 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: „Come invano il mare irato“ C-Dur RV705 aus Catone in Utica Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: Concerto für Streicher und basso continuo c-Moll RV 120 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: „Gelido in ogni vena“, Arie aus Farnace f-Moll RV 711 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: „Agitata da due venti“, Arie aus Griselda B-Dur RV 718
14.04.2020 bis 24.04.2020
Concerto Köln Partner: Sabine Devieilhe, Sopran Dirigent: Leitung: Andrea Marcon
