TREVOR PINNOCK AND THE ENGLISH CONCERT – Complete Recordings on Archiv Produktion [99CD/1DVD]

Decca (UMO) / Classics / Decca

£260.10

Format: 99CD + 1DVD
Catalogue No.: 4862478
Barcode: 0028948624782
Release Date: 21 Apr 2023
Genre: Classical

• On the occasion of The English Concert's 50th birthday, the oeuvre of the renowned ensemble and its founder and director Trevor Pinnock appears for the first time with a complete edition: on 99 CD and one DVD, from Purcell to Poulenc, in an Original Jackets Collection.

• From the seventies (Bach: Orchestral Suites) to the nineties (Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, 1749 version): The wealth of recordings makes it possible to trace the evolution of this important ensemble, which has had a significant influence on the development of historical performance practice.

• The main focus of the repertoire: Purcell (Choral Works, Operas), Vivaldi (Concertos), Handel (Orchestral Works and Selected Vocal Music), Bach (Orchestral Works), Haydn (Concertos, Sturm und Drang Symphonies), Mozart (Complete Symphonies).

• Fringe repertoire and fascinating discoveries: Thomas Arne, Charles Avison, Bach Sons, William Boyce, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Francesco Geminiani, Pieter Hellendaal, Ludwig August Lebrun, Francis Poulenc, Antonio Soler and John Stanley.

• A re-encounter with great instrumentalists such as Lisa Beznosiuk, Kenneth Gilbert, Roy Goodman, Paul Goodwin, Peter Hanson, Monica Huggett, Jaap ter Linden, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Nigel North, Philip Pickett, Simon Preston, Stephen Preston, David Reichenberg, Simon Standage, Milan Turković, Elizabeth Wilcock, as well as outstanding singers such as Arleen Auger, Barbara Bonney, Michael Chance, Felicity Lott, Anne Sofie von Otter, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, John Tomlinson.

• A 200-page booklet with essays by Trevor Pinnock and Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (Director of the Royal Academy of Music) as well as numerous photos and documents