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Baroque Trumpet Ensemble Berlin – Early Music on Historic Instruments
The Baroque Trumpet Ensemble Berlin, founded in 1990 by Johann Plietzsch, specializes in trumpet music from 1500 to 1800. The repertoire of the
ensemble extends from the oldest preserved processional and ceremonial music of the court trumpeters, through the period of the flourishing art of playing clarino in Europe from the end of the 17th. to the middle of
the 18th. century, to the orchestral trumpet parts of the Classical Period.
The main core of the ensemble consists of four baroque trumpets and timpani. Cooperation with singers and other instrumentalists allows the
presentation of the full extend of baroque trumpet music possibilities, from intimate chamber music to the full-scored sound of court music in all its splendor. Thus it is possible to present to the listener all the
rich sounds of the early music tradition.
The Baroque Trumpet Ensemble Berlin has thus far successfully undertaken concerts, broadcasting and recording with baroque orchestras such as Baroque
Orchestra Bremen, Capella Cantorum Berlin (Dir. Klaus Eichhorn), Musica Alta Ripa, Hannover, Fiori musicali, the Saxonian Baroque Orchestra Leipzig, Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Musica Florea Prague and many other chamber
music groups in the genre of early music. The Ensemble has partizipated in the Bach - Tage Berlin and other music festivals such as the Göttinger Händelfestspiele, Musikfest Schloß Weikersheim, the Festival
Hohenloher Musiksommer, the Musikfestspiele Potsdam-Sanssouci and the Summer Music festivals in Sachsen-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Concerts tour have been made by the Baroque Trumpet Ensemble Berlin
in Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Norway, Israel, Czech Republic and Poland.
An important achievement of the ensemble was a series of enthusiastically accepted concerts in the seasons 2002/2003 with the programme “Le Concert
des Nations” – Festive European Court Music of 18th. century - including compositions by M.R. Delalande, J.Fr. Fasch and the original version of G.Fr. Handel’s “Musik for the Royal Fireworks” from 1749 for wind and
drums, (36 musicians on trumpets, oboes, timpani, Bassoons and french horns on period instruments - dir. Johann Plietzsch) during
the Göttinger Händelfest- spiele, the Hohenloher Musiksommer, the Musikfest Schloß Weikersheim and the Musikfestspiele Potsdam- Sanssouci.
Apart from numerous concerts and recordings with other ensembles, every year Baroque Trumpet Ensemble Berlin presents one or two of
its own concert programmes, in wich, besides well-know baroque trumpet repertoire, the newly-discovered pieces of music in colourful instrumentations are played.
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