Apollo's Cabinet, Alexander Armstrong
Release Date: 01 December 2023
Label: Prima Classic
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 850000325333
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Murders, drinking songs, Cinderella stories, virtuosic cantatas, European tours, serene polyphony and candlelit rituals all feature in the evocative and story driven programmes of Apollo's Cabinet. Winners of the Gottingen Handel Competition and the Maurizio Pratola competition in 2022, the group bring a signature mix of acting, dancing, poetry and silliness to bring historical performance to modern audiences. They have furthermore won the Brian Nisbet Prize for their fusion of Music and Poetry and most recently the F. J. Aumann Prize of the International Biber Competition for innovation and new discoveries in Baroque music.
Recently completing a tour of Scotland generously supported by the Tunnell Trust, the group has performed across the UK and Europe including the London Handel Festival, Felix! Festival Koln, The Georgian Concert Society Edinburgh, :alpenarte Schwarzenberg and the Brighton Early Music Festival.
The ensemble is dedicated to educational outreach for children as well as adults, and members have designed and offered workshops and educational concerts in collaboration with the Royal Opera House, Centre for Young Musicians, Brighton Early Music Festival, English National Opera and Wigmore Hall.
This season, Apollo's Cabinet will be performing their Charles Burney programme at Vienna Konzerthaus, Montafoner Resonanzen and AMUZ Antwerpen, amongst others. Their latest show was a new interactive musical theatre production about the cold case of Jean- Marie Leclair's murder, generously supported by Continuo Foundation and Angel Early music and their next CD will showcase the life of soprano and actor Kitty Clive, star of the London theatre stage during the 18th century, which will be released next year.
Ella Bodeker - Soprano
Jonatan Bougt - Theorbo, Baroque Guitar
Harry Buckoke - Viola da Gamba
Thomas Pickering - Harpsichord, Recorder, Traverso
Daniel Watt - Percussion
Teresa Wrann - Recorder
Alexander Armstrong - narrator
Tracklisting
Olga Jegunova
Javier Camarena, Marina Rebeka, Franco Vassallo & Fabrizio Maria Carminati
Apollo's Cabinet, Alexander Armstrong
Apollo's Cabinet, Juergen Maurer
Marina Rebeka, Wroclaw Opera Orchestra, Marco Boemi
Marina Rebeka & Mathieu Pordoy
Anders Miolin
Marina Rebeka, Charles Castronovo, George Petean, Latvian Festival Orchestra, State Choir Latvija & Michael Balke
Ensemble La Francais
Christoph Croise; Andrey Baranov; Alexander Panfilov
Trio Parnassus
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
Narratio Quartet
Beau Soir Trio
Martin Rummel, Stefan Stroissnig
Hanspeter Oggier; Marina Vasilyeva
