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The Brandenburg Consort (Period Instrument Ensemble)

Founded: England

The Brandenburg Consort is a period instrument ensemble specialising in the music of J.S.Bach and his contemporaries. Its Musical Director, Roy Goodman, is one of Britain's leading specialists in authentic performing styles. Under his direction (from violin, keyboard or rostrum) the Consort has developed an enviable reputation for style, vitality, warmth and spontaneity.

The Consort has given a large number of concerts in Britain and abroad. It has made a substantial number of CD recordings for Hyperion, Decca, Vanguard Classics and Columns Classics, including orchestral music by Händel, Corelli, Avison, Bach and Wassenaer, Operatic Arias and Sinfonias by Händel and Vivaldi (Kirkby/Goodman) and a disc of baroque "pops" under the title Rondeaux Royaux. It has accompanied the King's College Choir Cambridge under the direction of Stephen Cleobury in recordings for CD and television of Händel's Israel in Egypt and Messiah (the latter won a Golden Angel Award for best music programme for television in 1996) and Bach's St John (BWV 245) and St Matthew Passions. (BWV 244).

The Consort's sister ensemble, The Brandenburg Orchestra, which specialises in Classical repertoire has made two CD recordings, of Haydn's Harmoniemesse and Little Organ Mass (Winchester Cathedral Choir/Hill) and of Violin Concertos by Viotti, Spohr, Myslivecek and Schubert (Wallfisch/Goodman).

Source: Orchestra Net Website
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (August 2001)


Roy Goodman: Short Biography | The Brandenburg Consort | Recordings | BWV 247 – Goodman

With Stephen Cleobury: BWV 244, BWV 245

Links to other Sites: The Brandenburg Consort (Orchestra Net)


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