2018 Orchestra of the Year Award nominee: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Gramophone
Friday, June 1, 2018
Discover why the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra has been nominated for the 2018 Gramophone Orchestra of the Year Award
Whether playing Handel’s Concerti a due cori with its regular directors Gottfried von der Goltz and Petra Müllejans and displaying wonderful assurance, or giving Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto a delicious silvery glint in the company of Isabelle Faust and Pablo Heras-Casado or adding a foundation of rich, glowing warmth to Mozart’s Requiem under the direction of René Jacobs, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra are one of Europe’s most stylish – and flexible. Their move into music of the middle of the 19th century has been a gloriously ear-opening experience – fire and ice fused to create playing of real character, alert yet also majestic and hugely impressive.
