List of early music ensembles
An early music ensemble is a musical ensemble that specializes in performing early music of the European classical tradition from the Baroque era and earlier — broadly, music produced before about 1750. Most, but not all, of these groups are advocates of "historically informed performance", and attempt to re-create the music as it might have sounded at the time it was written, using period instruments and modifying playing techniques according to the most recent scholarly research into music of the time.
Names in parentheses below indicate current directors, unless otherwise indicated.
List of ensembles
- Academy of Ancient Music (Christopher Hogwood founder, then Andrew Manze, currently Richard Egarr), UK: baroque orchestra
- Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio Dantone), Italy: baroque orchestra
- Accademia Daniel (Shalev Ad-El), Israel: baroque chamber group
- Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Germany: baroque orchestra
- Al Ayre Español (Eduardo López Banzo), Spain: baroque orchestra
- Alamire (David Skinner (musicologist)), UK: vocal consort
- American Bach Soloists (Jeffrey Thomas), USA
- Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir (Ton Koopman): baroque orchestra
- Anonymous 4, USA: all-female a cappella ensemble specializing in medieval music, now disbanded
- Apollo's Fire (Jeannette Sorrell) Cleveland, USA: renaissance, baroque, early classical orchestra
- L'Arpeggiata (Christina Pluhar), France: early baroque
- Ars Antiqua Austria (Gunnar Letzbor)
- Ars Nova Copenhagen (Paul Hillier), Denmark: renaissance to contemporary
- Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), France: baroque orchestra
- Asteria Medievale, duo, NYC: renaissance chansons
- Atrium Musicae de Madrid (Gregorio Paniagua), Spain: dissolved
- Auser Musici (Carlo Ipata), Italy: baroque orchestra
- Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (Paul Dyer): baroque orchestra
- Avison Ensemble (Gordon Dixon), UK: baroque orchestra
- Bach Collegium Japan (Masaaki Suzuki), Kobe: Bach
- Bach Sinfonia (Daniel Abraham) Maryland, USA
- Baltimore Consort, USA
- Blue Heron Renaissance Choir (Scott Metcalfe), USA
- Boston Baroque (Martin Pearlman), USA: baroque orchestra
- Boston Camerata (Joel Cohen), USA
- Bourbon Baroque (Nicolas Fortin and John Austin Clark), USA: baroque orchestra
- Camerata Bern (Antje Weithaas), Switzerland: Chamber orchestra
- Camerata Mediterranea (Joel Cohen), USA
- Camerata Trajectina, Utrecht: renaissance and baroque Dutch music
- Cancionero, Kent, UK
- Cantus Cölln (Konrad Junghänel), Germany: renaissance and baroque vocal
- Capella de Ministrers (Carles Magraner), Spain: medieval to baroque
- La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Jordi Savall), Spain
- Capilla Flamenca (Dirk Snellings), Belgium: renaissance choral
- Capilla Peñaflorida, Spain: renaissance choral
- Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini (Antonio Florio), Italy: baroque orchestra
- Cappella Mediterranea (Leonardo García-Alarcón)
- Cardinall's Musick (Andrew Carwood), UK: choir
- Les Agrémens (Guy van Waas), Belgium
- Chanticleer, USA: choir
- Chatham Baroque, USA: baroque instrumental ensemble
- La Chapelle Rhénane (Benoît Haller), France: baroque orchestra
- La Chapelle Royale (Philippe Herreweghe), France: baroque orchestra
- Cinco Siglos, Spain
- City Waites (inc.Lucie Skeaping), UK: medieval to baroque English music and folk
- Collegium 1704. (Václav Luks). Prague, Czech Republic. Baroque instrumental and vocal (Collegium Vocale 1704) ensemble.
- Collegium 419: Czech Early Music Vocal Ensemble
- Collegium Marianum. (Jana Semerádová). Prague, Czech Republic.
- Collegium Musicum 90 (Simon Standage), English Baroque orchestra
- Collegium Musicum Den Haag, Netherlands
- Collegium Vocale Bydgoszcz, Poland: renaissance music
- Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe), Belgium: renaissance and baroque choir
- Il Complesso Barocco (Alan Curtis), Italy: baroque orchestra
- Concentus Musicus Wien (Nikolaus Harnoncourt), Vienna: baroque orchestra
- Le Concert d'Astrée (Emmanuelle Haïm), France: baroque orchestra
- Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall), Spain: baroque orchestra
- Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet), France: baroque orchestra
- Concerto Copenhagen (Lars Ulrik Mortensen), Denmark: baroque orchestra
- Concerto Italiano (Rinaldo Alessandrini), Italy: madrigals and baroque orchestra
- Concerto Köln, Germany: baroque orchestra - guest conductors inc. Evelino Pidò, Daniel Harding etc.
- The Consort of Musicke (Anthony Rooley), UK: Renaissance vocal, madrigals
- Deller Consort (founded by Alfred Deller d.), UK: renaissance and baroque chamber
- Diabolus in Musica (Antoine Guerber), Paris: medieval choral
- Drolls, Petrozavodsk, Russia: medieval
- Dufay Collective, UK: vocal consort, madrigals
- Dunedin Consort (John Butt d.), Scotland: baroque orchestra, ensemble and solo voices
- Early Music Consort of London (David Munrow d.), UK: medieval, defunct
- Early Opera Company (Christian Curnyn), UK: baroque opera
- Egidius Kwartet, Netherlands: renaissance vocal music
- English Baroque Soloists (John Eliot Gardiner): Baroque and Classical-era music
- Ensemble amarcord, Leipzig, Germany, vocal ensemble, Medieval, Renaissance, Contemporary
- Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Montréal:
- Ensemble Clément Janequin (Dominique Visse), France: renaissance chansons
- Ensemble Elyma (Gabriel Garrido), Switzerland: baroque orchestra
- Ensemble Gombert, Melbourne, Australia
- Ensemble Leones (Marc Lewon), Germany
- Ensemble Matheus (Jean-Christophe Spinosi), France: baroque orchestra
- Ensemble Micrologus (Adolfo Broegg d.2006), Italy: medieval
- Ensemble Organum (Marcel Pérès), France: Gregorian chant
- Ensemble Renaissance, Serbia: medieval
- Ensemble Santenay, Trossingen, Germany: renaissance choral
- Ensemble Syntagma (Alexandre Danilevsky)
- Estampie (Michael Popp), Germany: medieval
- Europa Galante (Fabio Biondi), Italy: baroque orchestra
- Ex Cathedra (Jeffrey Skidmore), UK: choir and baroque orchestra
- I Fagiolini, UK: vocal consort, madrigals
- Fiori musicali (Marinka Brecelj), Vienna, Austria: baroque chamber group
- Florilegium (Ashley Solomon), London: baroque
- Freiburger Barockorchester (Gottfried von der Goltz), Germany: baroque and classical orchestra
- Fretwork, UK: viol consort
- The Gesualdo Six, UK: vocal sextet
- Il Giardino Armonico (Giovanni Antonini), Milan: baroque orchestra
- Gothic Voices (Christopher Page), UK: medieval and Renaissance music
- La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy (Jean-Claude Malgoire), France
- Hamburger Ratsmusik (Simone Eckert), Germany: baroque chamber orchestra
- Handel and Haydn Society, Boston: baroque choir and orchestra
- Hespèrion XX/Hespèrion XXI (Jordi Savall), Spain: renaissance orchestra
- The Hilliard Ensemble (formerly directed by Paul Hillier), UK: Medieval and Renaissance and contemporary music
- Hortus Musicus (Andres Mustonen), Estonia: medieval and renaissance and baroque and contemporary music
- Huelgas Ensemble (Paul Van Nevel), Belgium: renaissance choir
- Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble (Arno Paduch), Germany: renaissance baroque choir and orchestra
- The King's Consort (Robert King), UK: baroque orchestra. See also Retrospect Ensemble
- King's Singers, UK: vocal sextet
- Lautten Compagney (Wolfgang Katschner), Berlin, Germany, baroque ensemble
- Magnificat Baroque Ensemble (Warren Stewart), USA
- Magpie Lane, Oxfordshire UK: folk band
- Modo Antiquo (Bettina Hoffmann and Federico Maria Sardelli), Italy: medieval music to baroque orchestra
- Les Muffatti (Peter Van Heyghen), Brussels, Belgium: Baroque orchestra
- Münchener Bach-Orchester, Germany, founder (Karl Richter)
- Music of the Baroque (Jane Glover), Chicago
- Musica Angelica (Martin Haselböck), Los Angeles
- Musica Antiqua Köln (formerly Reinhard Goebel), Germany: Baroque chamber music, now disbanded
- Musica Fiata (Roland Wilson (conductor)), Germany: baroque wind orchestra
- Musica Ficta (Colombia) (Carlos Serrano) : Latin American baroque
- Musica Ficta (Denmark) (Bo Holten) : renaissance and contemporary choral
- Musica Ficta (Spain) (Raúl Mallavibarrena) :renaissance choral
- Musica Florea, (Marek Štryncl) :Czech early music ensemble
- Musica Reservata: British early music group, founded by Michael Morrow and John Beckett (1960 to the 1980s)[1]
- Musicians of the Old Post Road (Suzanne Stumpf and Daniel Ryan), Greater Boston Area
- Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Grenoble: baroque orchestra
- New Dutch Academy (Simon Murphy), The Hague, The Netherlands, 18th and early 19th century symphonic music
- New Trinity Baroque (Predrag Gosta), USA, Atlanta
- New York Collegium (Andrew Parrott), USA, dissolved
- New York Polyphony, USA: vocal quartet
- New York Pro Musica Antiqua (Noah Greenberg d.1966, then John Reeves White to 1974), USA: choir, defunct
- Newberry Consort, at the Newberry Library, USA: baroque chamber.
- Oliphant, Finland: medieval music
- Oni Wytars (Marco Ambrosini and Peter Rabanser), Germany: medieval music
- Opera Lafayette, USA: opera before 1800.
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, UK: baroque orchestra
- Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Frans Brüggen), Netherlands: baroque orchestra
- Orion Consort, (Daniel Cooper), Australia: medieval and renaissance ensemble
- Orlando Consort, UK: vocal quartet
- Pantagruel Renaissance Musicke trio, Germany
- The Parley of Instruments (Roy Goodman), UK: baroque orchestra
- Orchestre Les Passions (Jean-Marc Andrieu), France: orchestra
- La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken), Belgium: baroque orchestra and chamber ensemble
- Phantasm, UK: viol consort
- Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (Nicholas McGegan), USA: baroque orchestra
- Philip Jones Brass Ensemble (Philip Jones), UK: brass quintet
- Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, Philadelphia, USA
- Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre), France: renaissance-baroque chamber group
- Polyphony (Choir) (Stephen Layton), UK: renaissance, romantic and contemporary music
- Pro Anima (Gennadiy Golstein), Leningrad: 1980s, now disbanded.
- Pro Cantione Antiqua (Bruno Turner), UK: renaissance choral
- Profeti della Quinta (Elam Rotem), Switzerland: late Renaissance and early Baroque vocal music
- Project Ars Nova P.A.N. (inc Crawford Young), USA: medieval
- Quadriga Consort (Nikolaus Newerkla), Austria: emphasis on early British traditional and popular music
- Quatuor Mosaïques (founded in 1985 by members of Concentus Musicus Wien) Vienna.
- Red Priest, UK: baroque orchestra, specializing in Vivaldi
- Retrospect Ensemble (Matthew Halls), UK: baroque orchestra
- La Reverdie (Claudia Caffagni, Livia Caffagni), Italy: medieval
- Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot), Belgium: baroque cantatas
- Rondellus(Maria and Robert Staak), Estonia: medieval and renaissance and contemporary music
- Rose Consort of Viols, UK:
- Rose Ensemble (Jordan Sramek) St. Paul, USA
- Sarband, Germany: baroque orchestra
- Schola Gregoriana Pragensis, Czech Republic: a cappella male voice choir, Gregorian, liturgical and Bohemian polyphony.
- Sequentia (Benjamin Bagby), Germany: medieval
- La Serenissima (Adrian Chandler), UK: baroque orchestra, Vivaldi
- The Sixteen (Harry Christophers), UK: mostly a cappella music of the Renaissance, with baroque orchestra for Handel
- Solistes de Musique Ancienne (Joel Newsome) UK: baroque orchestra and choir
- I Solisti Veneti (Claudio Scimone b.1934), Italy: baroque orchestra on modern instruments
- Sonnambula, Renaissance/baroque ensemble of viols, United States: New York
- La Stagione (Michael Schneider (conductor)), Frankfurt, Germany: baroque orchestra
- Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Christopher Jackson), Canada: mostly music of the Renaissance and early Baroque
- Studio der frühen Musik (Thomas Binkley d.), Munich: medieval, disbanded
- Tafelmusik (Jeanne Lamon), Toronto: baroque orchestra and chamber choir
- Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset), France: baroque opera and orchestra
- Tallis Scholars (Peter Phillips): a cappella Renaissance music
- Taverner Consort and Players (Andrew Parrott), UK: renaissance choir and baroque orchestra
- The English Concert (Trevor Pinnock founder, then Andrew Manze, now Harry Bicket), UK
- La Tempesta (Jakub Burzynski), Poland: baroque orchestra
- Tetraktys (Kees Boeke) medieval, early renaissance
- Texas Early Music Project, Austin, Texas, USA
- Theatre of Voices, UK: vocal consort
- Tonus Peregrinus (Antony Pitts), UK: renaissance and contemporary choir
- Trinity Baroque, vocal ensemble Trinity College, Cambridge, UK
- Trio Mediæval, Norway: medieval polyphony
- La Venexiana (Claudio Cavina), Italy: madrigals
- Venice Baroque Orchestra, Italy (Andrea Marcon)
- Virginia Tech Early Music Ensemble, USA
- Westminster Abbey Choir (Simon Preston), UK
- Westminster Cathedral Choir (David Hill (choral director)), UK
References
- ↑ Gannon, Charles: John S. Beckett - The Man and the Music, pp. 107, 123, 125, 126-9, ff. (Dublin: 2016, The Lilliput Press.) ISBN 9781843516651.
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