The Inner Light: Telemann

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21 abril 2012

The Stardust Quartet and Christopher Hogwood - Concerti di Flauti




Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood, CBE (10 de septiembre de 1941) es un director de orquesta británico y clavicembalista muy conocido.

Christopher Hogwood nació en Nottingham. Estudió música y literatura clásica en el Pembroke College, Cambridge. Estudió ejecución y dirección orquestal con Raymond Leppard y Thurston Dart; después con Rafael Puyana y Gustav Leonhardt. El British Council le permitió estudiar un año en Praga.

En 1967 Hogwood fundó el Early Music Consort of London con David Munrow, y en 1973 fundó la Academy of Ancient Music, especializada en ejecuciones de música barroca y el temprano clasicismo con instrumentos del período. El Early Music Consort se deshizo después del suicidio de Munrow en 1976, pero Hogwood continuó ejecutando y grabando con la Academy of Ancient Music y también como director invitado en muchas otras orquestas.

Desde 1981, Hogwood ha dirigido regularmente en los Estados Unidos. Sirvió como director artístico de la Handel and Haydn Society de Boston entre 1986 y 2001. Desde entonces tiene el título de Director Laureado del mismo grupo. De 1983 a 1985 Hogwood fue el director artístico del Festival Mostly Mozart en el Barbican Centre de Londres. De 1987 a 1992 fue el director musical de la Orquesta de Cámara Saint Paul en Minnesota, que lo nombró su principal director invitado.

Hogwood también dirige habitualmente ópera. Hizo su debut operático en 1983, dirigiendo Don Giovanni en St. Louis, Missouri. Ha trabajado con la Ópera Estatal de Berlín, la Ópera Real de Estocolmo, la Royal Opera House en Covent Garden, Chorégies d'Orange y la Houston Grand Opera. Con la Ópera de Australia, hizo Idomeneo en 1994 y La clemenza di Tito en 1997 Ifigenia en Táuride.

En mayo de 2006 se anunció que Richard Egarr sucedería a Hogwood como Director Musical de la Academy of Ancient Music el 1 de septiembre y que Hogwood asumiría el título de Director Emérito. Hogwood dijo que esperaba dirigir "al menos un proyecto grande" con la Academia cada año.

Si bien Hogwood es mejor conocido en el repertorio barroco y clásico temprano, también ejecuta música contemporánea, con una afinidad particular por las escuelas neo-barrocas y neoclásicas incluyendo muchas obras de Stravinski, Martinu y Hindemith.

Las publicaciones de Hogwood incluyen una investigación del patronazgo a través del tiempo (Music at Court), estudios biográficos de Haydn, Mozart y Handel, una historia de la trío sonata, e investigaciones sobre música británica incluyendo un libro sobre la Música Acuática de Handel y la Música para los Reales Fuegos Artificiales.

Desde 1992 ha sido profesor internacional de Ejecución de Música Antigua en la Royal Academy of Music, y como profesor visitante del King's College de Londres. Sus puestos académicos también incluyen ser Profesor Honorario de Música de la Universidad de Cambridge y Fellowships en el Jesus College y Pembroke College (Cambridge).


The Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet is a professional Dutch recorder quartet which was founded in 1978 by four students of the Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam; Daniël Brüggen, Bertho Driever, Paul Leenhouts and Karel van Steenhoven. Following its formation, the ensemble's reputation grew quickly and was further strengthened at the 1981 Musica Antigua Competition in Bruges where, challenging the competition rules, it performed an unusual arrangement of a Stevie Wonder song and emerged as the winner.
During the last 30 years, the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet has enjoyed an international career and are recognized as a serious ensemble of unparalleled virtuosity. They have appeared together at many early music festivals including those in Berlin, Utrecht, London and Sapporo, and regularly tour throughout Europe, the USA and Japan. They also perform separate from festivals in concert halls. In 1998, 2001, 2004,2009, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands requested the quartet to perform for her during official festivities. Since its formation, the quartet has continually explored the boundaries of the recorder consort, playing a mix of recorder music from all ages of music, especially from the Renaissance, Baroque and twentieth-century. A number of composers have been inspired to write for the Quartet, which has helped create a new repertoire that proves the recorder to be an important voice of our time.

A few years ago, both Bertho Driever and Paul Leenhouts left Loeki Stardust in order to pursue another career in music. They were replaced by Daniel Koschitzki and Andrea Ritter. After internal struggle, it was decided to end the ensemble which lead to a farewell concert in November 2007. After seeing each other in private, the four founding members of the group decided to regroup in order to celebrate their 30th anniversary in 2008, but not to make plans after that since they do not wish to re-establish an ensemble. At present, about 50 concerts are planned all over the world.



25 diciembre 2011

Telemann, Heinichen, Marcello - Concerti di flauti - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet




Since its formation the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet has explored the boundaries of the recorder consort. Its musical adventure started in 1978 when studying at the Sweelinck conservatory in Amsterdam and discovering the quartet as a new phenomenon. The ensemble's reputation grew quickly when they emerged as the winner of the 1981 Musica Antigua Competition in Bruges despite testing the competition rules by performing an unusual arrangement of a Stevie Wonder song.
What followed was the recognition as a serious ensemble of unparalleled virtuosity, a recording contract with Decca and the start of an international career. Both their playing style and choice of repertoire, something unheard of at the time, made them appear at many festivals and they toured throughout Europe the United States, South America and Japan. 
Their unusual name refers to a melody played on their very first rehearsal. It expresses affection for unusual repertoire in addition to the classic consort music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. A number of composers have been inspired to write for the Quartet, which has helped create a new repertoire that proves the instrument to be an important voice of our time. Graham Fitkin, Tristan Keuris, Chiel Meijering, Peter Jan Wagemans, Philip Wharton en Lera Auerbach are amongst the many composers who wrote for the quartet. 
The Quartet also contributes to the expansion of the recorder repertoire by publishing a series of new recorder music and through the collaboration with recorder makers. The Boston based instrument maker Friedrich von Huene designed a fully keyed bass and contrabass recorder allowing the group amongst others to perform and record Bach’s Art of Fugue. The group has assembled a unique collection of over a hundred Renaissance, Baroque and modern recorders, ranging from an 8-inch sopranino to a sub-contrabass measuring over nine feet. The quartet’s recordings (for L'Oiseau-Lyre, Decca and Channel Classics) have confirmed its reputation as the world's most innovative and exciting recorder consort. 


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