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Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917226522 |
Catalogue number CC 72265 |
Release date 09 September 2016 |
"In Italy Händel became acquainted with the chamber cantata, one of the most important genres of that time .... Ton Koopman has recorded a CD with such cantatas with his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and two soloists. The occasion was an important discovery: the first version of the cantata TU FEDEL? TU CONSTANTE ?, which was in its private collection...."
Toccata, 05-5-2017Born in Zwolle (The Netherlands) Ton Koopman had a classical education and studied organ, harpsichord and musicology in Amsterdam. He received the Prix d‘Excellence for both instruments. Naturally attracted by historical instruments and fascinated by the philological performance style, Koopman concentrated his studies on Baroque music, with particular attention to J.S. Bach, and soon became a leading figure in the “authentic performance” movement.
As organist and harpsichordist Ton Koopman has appeared in the most prestigious concert halls of the world and played the most beautiful historical instruments of Europe. At the age of 25, he created his first baroque orchestra; in 1979 he founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra followed in 1992 by the Amsterdam Baroque Choir. Combined as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, the ensemble soon gained worldwide fame as one of the best ensembles on period instruments. With a repertoire ranging from the early Baroque to the late Classics, they have performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Théatre des Champs-Elysées and Salle Pleyel in Paris, Barbican and Royal Albert Hall in London, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Philharmonie in Berlin, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo as well as in Brussels, Milan, Madrid, Rome, Salzburg, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Munich, Athens, etc.
Among Ton Koopman’s most ambitious projects has been the recording of the complete Bach cantatas, a massive undertaking for which he has been awarded the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis “Echo Klassik”, the BBC Award, the Hector Berlioz Prize and has been nominated for the Grammy Award (USA) and the Gramophone Award (UK). In addition to the works of Bach, Koopman has long been an advocate of the music of Bach’s predecessor Dieterich Buxtehude and following the completion of the Bach project, he embarked in 2005 on the recording of the Buxtehude-Opera Omnia. The edition consists of 30 CDs, the last having been released in 2014. Ton Koopman is President of the International Dieterich Buxtehude Society. In 2006 he was awarded the Bach-Prize of the City of Leipzig, in 2012 the Buxtehude Prize of the city of Lübeck, and in 2014 he received the Bach Prize of the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Ton Koopman has a very wide repertoire: as harpsichordist and organist he has performed music from the Renaissance to the Classical period, with the ABO&C he has explored intensely the Baroque and Classical period and as a conductor with modern orchestras he also approaches the early Romantics.
In recent years, Ton Koopman has been very active as guest conductor. He has worked with the most prominent orchestras of the world, among them the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, DSO Berlin, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Paris, Vienna Symphony, Boston Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra.
Ton Koopman has recorded an enormous number of records for Erato, Teldec, Sony, Deutsche Grammophon, and Philips. In 2003 he founded his own label “Antoine Marchand”, a sub label of Challenge Classics. Ton Koopman publishes regularly. He has edited the complete Händel Organ Concertos for Breitkopf & Härtel and recently published new editions of Händel’s Messiah and Buxtehude‘s Das Jüngste Gericht for Carus Verlag.
Ton Koopman is Professor at the University of Leiden, Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London and artistic director of the Festival “Itinéraire Baroque”.
In Italy Händel became acquainted with the chamber cantata, one of the most important genres of that time .... Ton Koopman has recorded a CD with such cantatas with his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and two soloists. The occasion was an important discovery: the first version of the cantata TU FEDEL? TU CONSTANTE ?, which was in its private collection....
Toccata, 05-5-2017
A prime selling point here is the premiere recording of an early version of the soprano cantata Tu fedel? Tu costante?, HWV171a, unearthed in Ton Koopman’s private manuscript collection.
Gramophone, 01-3-2017
Koopman's recording is very important because of the repertoire: one first recording and some other pieces which are not that well-known, in overall very fine performances.
Musica dei Bonum, 13-2-2017
As always the playing is at the highest level
Fono Forum, 06-2-2017
Diapason - 01/01/2017
Diapason, 01-1-2017
Despite the presence of good soloists and a fine recording technique, this is a most disappointing production, since Ton Koopman’s conducting badly lacks inspiration.
Pizzicato, 20-12-2016
4 **** star rating
''For any one who wants to have a musical present under the christmas tree, needs to have the Händel album.''
De Gelderlander, 14-12-2016
''The performance is only a bit formal.''
Luister, 01-12-2016
SWR 2 - 15/11/2016
SWR 2, 15-11-2016
"You own a unique work by Händel, Ton!"
Klassieke zaken, 01-11-2016
Ton Koopman will give the prestigious Huizinga lecture at Leiden University this year.
NRC Next, 09-10-2016
"It seems like Händel had to compose his cantate again for a new version, maybe because did not have the original music with him."
Tijdschrift Oude Muziek, 01-10-2016
Interview with Ton Koopman about the discovery in his own library of the new Händel cantata ‘Tu fedel? Tu costante?’ HWV 171a
Trouw, 03-9-2016
All the while the Amsterdam players are a buoyant presence, whether in the energising continuo or the beautifully turned obbligatos from oboe, recorder and solo violins.
Gramophone, 04-7-2016
Koopman conducted his choir and orchestra with an enthousiasm that was sometimes rushed but also very contagious.
NRC , 11-4-2016
"And then the world received the gift of a new piece by Händel."
De Volkskrant, 09-4-2016