Café Zimmermann

Café Zimmermann is an extremely acclaimed early music ensemble who perform about original devices and use historic performance methods. It includes six core users, two on violin, one each on alto, cello, and dual bass, and one on harpsichord. Based on repertory, Café Zimmermann frequently augment its quantity by adding extra strings and winds. And in addition, the concentrate of its repertory offers mainly been music from the Baroque period, particularly functions by J.S. Bach. It has additionally performed a good quantity of French Baroque music, including functions by Lully, Marais, and smaller knowns Jean-Henri d’Anglebert, Pierre de la Garde, Michel Corrette, as well as others. Its repertory also stretches in to the Classical period, taking in functions by Haydn and Mozart. CZ offers toured throughout European countries, the U.K., as well as the Americas and provides made many recordings, all obtainable from Alpha Productions. Café Zimmermann was founded in France in 1998 by initial violinist and concertmaster Pablo Valetti as well as the enbsemble’s harpsichordist Céseries Frisch. The various other associates are Nick Robinson, violin; Patricia Gagnon, alto; Petr Skalka, cello; and Ludek Brany, dual bass. The ensemble’s name derives from Gottfried Zimmermann’s Leipzig-based espresso home, which hosted regular concerts by Telemann’s Collegium Musicum, from 1723. J.S. Bach offered as the ensemble’s music movie director from 1729-1739. Located in Top Normandy, France, the CZ enticed the interest of critics and open public as well from its first days. Its accuracy, collective virtuosity, and well-chosen tempos, combined with the deft usage of ornamentation with the harpsichordist, had been among the features observed by critics. By the brand new hundred years the CZ was internationally acclaimed and in 2001 its initial volume within an ambitious group of J.S. Bach instrumental functions was released by Alpha Productions, a Compact disc of harpsichord concertos BWV 1052 and BWV 1055; Violin Concerto, BWV 1042; and Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Other effective recordings implemented, including a 2005 disk of functions by d’Anglebert (Pièces de clavecin). In fall 2007 CZ acquired an effective tour from the U.S., including extremely praised concerts in November on the Collection of Congress offering functions by J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach. Its concert successes possess continuing with acclaimed performances on the 2011 International Piano Celebration in La Roque-d’Anthéron, France, with the first Music Celebration in Innsbruck, Austria. Vol. 5 of CZ’s ongoing J.S. Bach series, offering Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 and various other functions, was released on Compact disc in 2011.