The chamber orchestra Kammerorchester Basel was founded in Basel , Switzerland, in 1984. In the tradition of Paul Sacher 's Basler Kammerorchester , its focus is on both early music and contemporary classical music . The orchestra plays regularly without a conductor with their leading concertmasters Julia Schröder, Daniel Bard and Baptiste Lopez.
16-625: The Basel Chamber Orchestra is recognised as one of the leading chamber orchestras in the classical music scene. Invitations to the most important worldwide concert houses and festivals shape their agenda, as well as their own subscription concerts in Basel. Giovanni Antonini has been the Principal Guest Conductor of the Basel Chamber Orchestra since the 2015/16 season. The conductor and flute player from Milan
32-559: A classical orchestra beyond the longstanding institutions". In addition, the "excellent programmes at the highest musical level" and "new forms of communication aimed not only at connoisseurs but also at children and amateurs" will be highlighted. The award ceremony took place on 20 September 2019 at the Kunstmuseum Basel in the presence of Federal Councillor Alain Berset . Between 2017 and 2019, Heinz Holliger 's 80th birthday,
48-885: Is known for his innovative interpretations of the baroque and classical repertoire. Kammerorchester Basel, then called Serenata Basel , was formed by graduates of Swiss music academies. It was conducted by Johannes Schläfli until 1999. The ensemble assumed its present name in 1999 and has had no principal conductor since. Since then the chamber orchestra has developed its programme under the leadership of its own concertmasters and guests, as well as in cooperation with selected soloists like Maria João Pires , Sol Gabetta , Nuria Rial , Christoph Prégardien , Erwin Schrott , Khatia Buniatishvili and Patricia Kopatchinskaja , as well as conductors like Trevor Pinnock , Mario Venzago , Heinz Holliger , René Jacobs and Christophe Rousset . The orchestra performs both early and modern music and continues
64-596: The ECHO Klassik award as "Ensemble of the Year". In 2012, the orchestra, led by Julia Schröder, won the award for the "Opera Recording of the Year", arias by Georg Philipp Telemann sung by Nuria Rial . The first Swiss orchestra to receive a Swiss Music Prize in 2019 - the Kammerorchester Basel now receives this recognition. The Federal Office of Culture thus appreciates the "special vision of creating
80-614: The Gramophone Award , Diapason d’Or , and Choc du Monde de la Musique. In 2014, Antonini, with Il Giardino Armonico and Kammerorchester Basel , commenced a project aiming to perform and record on period instruments all of Joseph Haydn 's symphonies by 2032, the 300th anniversary of the composer's birth. Symphony No. 7 (Schubert) Symphony No. 7 is the name given to a four- movement symphony in E major ( D 729) drafted by Franz Schubert in August 1821. Although
96-505: The Handel Festival Halle . They recorded all of Beethoven 's symphonies, led by conductor Giovanni Antonini . A review of Symphony No. 5 noted the "period practice lightness, despite the use of modern instrument", "refinement and delicacy", "fleet-footedness in the scherzo – particular from the running basses and cellos at the start of the trio", and the finale "thrillingly and refreshingly done, remarkable, once again, for
112-548: The Basel Chamber Orchestra will make a cyclical complete recording of all of Franz Schubert 's symphonies in conjunction with selected opera overtures, together with the Swiss conductor and composer, and present them in concerts – some of which are also played in contrast to selected compositions of Holliger. By 2032, Haydn's 300th birthday, the Chamber Orchestra will perform all of Joseph Haydn 's symphonies , under
128-781: The Civica Scuola di Musica in that city and the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva . In 1985, along with Luca Pianca , he co-founded Il Giardino Armonico , a pioneering Italian early music ensemble based in Milan. Antonini is part of the Italian historically informed performance movement, and has performed with musicians including Christoph Prégardien , Christophe Coin , Katia and Marielle Labèque , Viktoria Mullova and Giuliano Carmignola . With Il Giardino Armonico he has received
144-457: The care and attention to details". In 2011, the orchestra accompanied Andreas Scholl in a recording of Bach cantatas including Ich habe genug , BWV 82 and Gott soll allein mein Herze haben , BWV 169 . A review described the orchestra, led by concert master Julia Schröder, as "lively and definitive" and noted that it provided "a clear and articulated accompaniment throughout". They performed
160-606: The chimerical 'Gastein Symphony' that was long believed to have been written and lost in 1824, and is now generally identified as the "Great C Major" symphony, No. 9. The revised Deutsch catalogue and the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe do not number this symphony, preferring to give the number 7 to the Unfinished Symphony . In the complete edition of Breitkopf & Härtel ( Franz Schubert's Works ),
176-440: The leadership of Principal Guest Conductor Giovanni Antonini, alternately with his own Ensemble Il Giardino Armonico , in thematic cycles across Europe, on period instruments, with the original composition and in the historic pitch of 430 Hz . Giovanni Antonini Giovanni Antonini (born 1965) is an Italian conductor and soloist on the recorder and baroque transverse flute. He studied in his native Milan , and attended
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#1732791491913192-422: The tradition of Paul Sacher 's Basler Kammerorchester (1926–1987). Music up to the classical period is performed on period instruments . Every year the orchestra also commissions new works. Performances are often led by the concertmaster. Guest conductors have included Paul Goodwin , Christopher Hogwood , Kristjan Järvi , Paul McCreesh and David Stern . Guest performances at the most popular concert halls in
208-481: The work (which comprises about 1350 bars) is structurally complete, Schubert only orchestrated the slow introduction and the first 110 bars of the first movement. The rest of the work is continued on 14- stave score pages as a melodic line with occasional basses or counterpoints, giving clues as to changes in orchestral texture. Schubert seems to have laid the symphony aside in order to work on his opera Alfonso und Estrella , and never returned to it. The manuscript
224-607: The works at the Barbican Centre in 2012. In 2013, they combined them with the sinfonia from cantata Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe , BWV 156 , and Bach's Harpsichord concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056 . Members of the orchestra sang and played the closing chorale of BWV 169. In 2013 they played, conducted by Mario Venzago , Sommernacht for string orchestra by Othmar Schoeck , the first cello concerto by Dmitri Shostakovich with Sol Gabetta as soloist, and Schubert's Symphony No. 7 . In 2008, Kammerorchester Basel won
240-497: The world and regular invitations to renowned festivals around Europe are proof of the high level of recognition of the most internationally successful Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland. Since 2015/16, Giovanni Antonini , with whom the Basel Chamber Orchestra has had a close artistic relationship for years, has been the Principal Guest Conductor. In 2004, Kammerorchester Basel played Handel's opera Lotario both in Basel and at
256-587: Was given by Schubert's brother Ferdinand to Felix Mendelssohn and was subsequently acquired by Sir George Grove , who bequeathed it to the Royal College of Music in London. There are at least four completions: by John Francis Barnett (1881), Felix Weingartner (1934), Brian Newbould (1980), and Richard Dünser (2022). The work is now generally accepted to be Schubert's Seventh Symphony, an appellation which some scholars had preferred to leave for
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