The English Concert

The British Concert can be an “authentic performance” ensemble, founded by harpsichordist and conductor Trevor Pinnock in 1973. The group quickly founded itself as you of Britain’s leading orchestras in the then-young field of carrying out Baroque functions on Baroque devices. The British Concert as well as the dynamic Pinnock helped place historical performance around the graphs. The orchestra includes a status for stylish, energetic, and high-quality music-making. Its audio is light, shiny, and obvious. Its strings generally use no vibrato, and its own winds possess a woody, appealing tone that mixes well with strings and with the fortepiano. Usually the orchestra applies just a light bloating on suffered string records. In detailing the orchestra’s choice to focus on original devices (or painstakingly genuine re-creations of these), Pinnock clarifies, “The answer is easy — we wished to use the the most suitable equipment for the work. These instruments had been sufficient for Bach — certainly they’re sufficient for all of us.” In 1983, the British Concert Choir was founded, to execute and record choral works together with the instrumental ensemble. After 30 years leading the group, Pinnock stepped down and switched the music directorship to Andrew Manze in 2003, who was simply then been successful by Harry Bicket in 2007. Documenting for Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv imprint, Harmonia Mundi, and its particular label, Avie, the British Concert offers released over 70 albums, a lot of which have earned top recording honours like the Grand Prix du Disque and Grammophon Honours. With Pinnock leading, they have recorded full symphonies of Mozart, Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti and Orchestral Suites, and several Haydn symphonies and Vivaldi concertos. Furthermore they have participated in recordings of Haydn people and Handel oratorios and operas. They have toured thoroughly in European countries and Asia, including a 1998 25th wedding anniversary tour.