Maurice Steger & Freiburg Baroque Orchestra LIVE from Viersen Germany - INT
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Live from the Festhalle of the City of Viersen
Easter Monday Concert live from the Festhalle of the City of Viersen featuring the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with recorder flute soloist Maurice Steger.
The Broadcast will be available until June 5, 2021 following the initial live broadcast.
Maurice Steger
It is not surprising that he is called "Paganini", "wizard", "the world's leading recorder player" or an "electrifying and inspiring conductor". In order to live up to such high expectations, one requires not only astonishing technique, but also charisma, intellect and a special sensitivity for the music. Maurice Steger has been proving all of this to his audiences, inspiring with his intense tone and unstoppable energy in various concert formats all over the world.
As a soloist, conductor or both at once, he regularly performs with the top period instrument ensembles, such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel, Venice Baroque Orchestra, The English Concert, Il Pomo d’oro or I Barocchisti. He also performs with leading modern orchestras such as the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, the Canadian Violons du Roy, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Musikkollegium Winterthur and the NDR Radiophilharmonie. It always astonishes that all these orchestras sound transformed after a period of work: sonically sensitive and individual, always historically informed and playfully expressive in the here and now.
Chamber music plays a notable role in the richly varied spectrum of Maurice Steger's artistic endeavours. With fellow musicians and friends such as Hille Perl, Rachel Podger, Avi Avital, Daniele Caminiti, Sebastian Wienand, Diego Fasolis, Sol Gabetta and the French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau, he dedicates himself to a continuously updated repertoire of Early music. Also he is available for experimental or new formations, for example, he performs with the pianist Martin Stadtfeld and the percussionist Christoph Sietzen. Within the framework of a world premiere , together with the Kuss Quartet, Steger will apply himself to a new concert form in 2021.
Maurice Steger loves the interaction between different cultures and getting to know other ways of working and interpretive approaches, working as a concert artist, professor and juror not only in Europe but throughout the world. Tours through North and South America, Asia and Australia have brought him together with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
He was the first recorder player from the West to perform with the Traditional Taipei Chinese Orchestra.
His commitment to musical education is also extremely important to him: besides the directorship of the Gstaad Baroque Academy at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, which he took over in 2013 in addition to diverse master classes, he invented the character of Tino Flautino in order to encourage young children to playfully engage with classical music. The recorder-playing Tino Flautino is a children's hero in Steger's home country, Switzerland, and the musician now presents his latest adventure with the tomcat Leo Leonardo in many countries and languages.
Through his own unending thirst for knowledge, he succeeds time and again in showing how much there is still to be discovered about Baroque music.
For example, on his recording Souvenirs, he presented works that he found in the private library of Count Harrach in Naples. His album Baroque Twitter with the Basel Chamber Orchestra and the singer Nuria Rial was inspired by birdsong.
The latest recording, Mr. Handel's Dinner, with La Cetra Barockorchester Basel was released in the spring of 2019 and reflects on Handel's opera performances and especially their intermissions in London. The recording was received with enthusiasm by listeners and the press. Steger regularly tracks down baroque and early classical rarities, conducts and plays them or releases them on CD. Maurice Steger has received many awards for his work, including the Karajan Prize and the ECHO Klassik. One sometimes wonders where Maurice Steger finds all the energy with which he has helped the recorder to make a comeback, as Arte recently presented in a documentary The Recorder: A Comeback. But when you see how much love for the recorder, the music and the audience he demonstrates in each of his many projects, it becomes clear that Maurice Steger is carved from the same special material as his beloved instrument. "Maurice Steger's virtuosity and sense of style are admirable"
Frieburg Baroque Orchestra
The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (FBO) is one of the leading ensembles of historically informed
Performance practices. For more than 30 years the orchestra has shaped international musical life and continues to through its concerts, touring, and recordings.
The FBO was founded in 1987 by former students at the University of Music in Freiburg,
predominantly from the violin class of Rainer Kussmaul, who himself was later elected concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic. The ensemble soon became one of the most sought-after orchestras performing on historical instruments and gained notice internationally. The FBO regularly appears in the most renowned concert halls, including in the Berlin Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall in London, Lincoln Center in New York, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and in the Philharmonie de Paris.
Concert tours have taken the ensemble to every continent, from South America to Australia. The FBO additionally maintains its own subscription series in Freiburg, Stuttgart, and Berlin and is a guest at major music festivals including the Salzburg Festival, the Tanglewood Festival in the USA and the Days of Early Music Innsbruck.
While the core repertoire of the orchestra is baroque and classical music, they have expanded their performance repertoire to include romantic music, especially the works by Mendelssohn and Schumann. In the spirit of historically informed performance practice, the FBO usually performs concerts without a conductor, but for selected projects, the ensemble has worked with well-known conductors including Pablo Heras-Casado, Sir Simon Rattle, and Teodor Currentzis. A particularly intense musical friendship connects the FBO with René Jacobs.
Since 2017, the artistic directors of the FBO are Gottfried von der Goltz (violin) and Kristian Bezuidenhout (Clavichord), who took over this position from Petra Müllejans. Both current artistic directors perform as soloists with the orchestra both at home and on tour. The ensemble also works with renowned instrumentalists and vocal soloists, including Isabelle Faust, Philippe Jaroussky, Christian Gerhaher, Alexander Melnikov, Andreas Staier, Jean-Guihen Queyras.
The extraordinary musical diversity of the FBO is documented on critically acclaimed recordings which have amassed numerous prizes and awards, including several ECHO Klassik awards and nominations for both the Grammy and the German Record Critics association awards.
In the 2020/21 season the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra will give guest performances at the Days of Early Music in Innsbruck, the Cologne Philharmonic and at the Theater an der Wien. With Mozart's Così Fan Tutte under the direction of René Jacobs in Moscow and on the Canary Islands. René Jacobs will again conduct the orchestra at the Philharmonie de Paris for a performance of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz. The FBO will also go on an extensive concert tour of Japan with Kristian Bezuidenhout who will perform the piano concertos of W.A. Mozart. In April, at the Theater an der Wien, the orchestra accompanies a production of Handel’s Saul.
Program — Tempesta di Mare
G.F. HANDEL (1685-1759)
Water Music Suite Nr. 1 F Major HWV 348 - Movements 1 & 2
A. VIVALDI (1678-1741)
"La tempesta di Mare" Concerto F Major RV 570 for Recorder solo
G.F. HANDEL (1685-1759)
Water Music Suite Nr. 1 F Major HWV 348 - Movements 3 through 6
F. GEMINIANI (1687-1762)
Concerto Nr. 7 d minor for Recorder solo
G.F. HANDEL (1685-1759)
Water Music Suite Nr. 1 F Major HWV 348 - Movements 7 through 11
INTERVAL
G.F. HANDEL (1685-1759)
Water Music Suite Nr. 3 G Major HWV 350
G. TELEMANN (1681-1767)
Concerto C Major TWV 51:C1
G.F. HANDEL (1685-1759)
Water Music Suite Nr. 2 D Major HWV 349
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2021-04-05T13:00:00-04:00
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2021-06-05T13:00:00-04:00
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