La Stagione Orchestra

La Stagione Orchestra is a period-instrument ensemble closely connected with music in the Baroque era, especially functions by Telemann, J.S. Bach, and Handel. La Stagione can be known for the rediscovery and championing of compositions by much less prominent Baroque statistics like Franz Beck, Ignaz Holzbauer, Alessandro Stradella, and many Bach sons. But La Stagione’s repertory also consumes functions by Haydn and Mozart, aswell as composers in the 19th and 20th decades, including Stockhausen. Comprising 18 players and conductor Michael Schneider, La Stagione frequently performs with leading vocal ensembles and instrumental soloists, and frequently tour throughout European countries and appear on the even more essential early music celebrations like the Handel celebrations in Göttingen and Halle, as well as the Bachfest Leigzig. The ensemble provides appeared on a lot more than 30 recordings over time for such brands as Capriccio, Harmonia Mundi, and CPO. La Stagione Orchestra was founded in Frankfurt in 1988 by longtime conductor Michael Schneider. The ensemble, also called La Stagione Frankfurt, quickly drew interest in Germany and close by parts of European countries. Among its first recordings was an acclaimed 1993 CPO disk from the six symphonies, Op. 10, by Carl Friedrich Abel. Through the entire 1990s La Stagione created a reputation as you of Germany’s leading period-instrument ensembles, not really least due to its versatility not merely in instrumental music, however in choral and operatic functions as well. Certainly, the 1997 Deutsche Harmonia Mundi Compact disc of Xmas cantatas by Alessandro Stradella, offering countertenor Kai Wessel, tenor Christoph Prégardien, soprano Ruth Ziesak, and additional leading vocal soloists, was a critically praised work. By the first years of the brand new hundred years La Stagione experienced become a main existence at music celebrations, sometimes presenting essential contemporary functions, much like its overall performance of Stockhausen’s Zodiac in the 2003 Kassel Music Times Event in Kassel, Germany. In 2004 La Stagione captured the German Record Critics Reward for any CPO documenting of symphonies No. 1, No. 2, no. 6, Op. 3, by Franz Beck. In 2007 La Stagione lauched its most considerable recording task to day with quantity 1 of the blowing wind concertos of Telemann, within the CPO label. For live shows, the ensemble was frequently experiencing great achievement, as evidenced with a June 2009 tour of Spain, including concerts in Barcelona, Valencia, and Palma de Mallorca. Quantity six of La Stagione’s Telemann blowing wind concerto series was released to worldwide acclaim in 2011.