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Early Music Festival
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  • Photo:
    Eric Richmond
  • Photo:
    Eric Richmond
classical music, opera, theatre

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  • 28 February 2020, Friday
  • 7:30 pm — 10 pm
  • one interval
  • Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Produced by Müpa Budapest
one interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Featuring:

violin
Margaret Faultless (Orchestra leader), Huw Daniel, Rodolfo Richter
oboe
Katharina Spreckelsen
  • J. S. Bach: Sinfonia from the cantata Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42
  • J. S. Bach: Concerto for Three Violins in D minor, BWV 1063 (transcribed by Huw Daniel)
  • J. S. Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor, BWV 1060
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  • J. S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066
  • J. S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043

In 1986, a group of British historical musicians founded an orchestra, but refrained from hiring a principal music director: they would take charge of running the ensemble themselves. Of course, somebody has to lead the music, and three violinists take responsibility for this - taking turns with each other. And some people say that there is no room for democracy in an orchestra!

It is no coincidence that the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment was such a self-aware ensemble from its very beginning: it very swiftly began to gain exceptional prestige for itself. This is indicated by a partial list of their collaborators over the past decades: Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt, Christopher Hogwood, Charles Mackerras, René Jacobs, Roger Norrington, William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe, Robin Ticciati, Yannick Nézet-Séguin - just a few of their renowned partners, both... active and deceased. There is also a narrower group of musicians who work with the orchestra: these are the ones who merit the honorary title 'principal artist'. We Hungarians can take pride in the fact that this circle includes Iván Fischer and András Schiff alongside the likes of Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, Mark Elder and John Butt. We can be especially proud that one of the three violinists rotating to lead the orchestras - alongside Margaret Faultless, who will lead the Budapest concert, and Matthew Truscott - is one Kati Debretzeni.
Although the orchestra (true to its name) officially considers the music of the second half of the 18th century to be its core repertoire, it does not necessarily treat this as an iron-clad rule. At Müpa Budapest's Early Music Festival, for example, they will play several instrumental pieces of remarkable beauty by Bach, the master who embodies the Baroque period.

The concert will be preceded, at 6 pm, by an introductory presentation by Dr. Salamon Kamp entitled Prelude in the Auditorium, which will be open to anyone holding a ticket for the performance.


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