Period Instrument Performance Groups (LONG)
BLeissa
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(Date list updated: April 1, 1995)
The following list identifies performance groups who employ
"original" instruments (or modern copies of historic instruments)
in classical music performances. This list is not limited to
recorded performances. If you find mistakes or omissions in
this list, please send an E-mail message.
NOTE: "The Gramophone Good CD Guide" uses a feather quill
pen symbol to identify period performance recordings.
Unfortunately, the "Guide" is NOT always correct.
Brad Leissa, M.D. (BLE...@AOL.COM)
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
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Academie Royale de Musique de Paris (Director: Jean-Claude Veilhan)
Academie Sainte-Cecile (Director: Philippe Couvert)
Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) (Director: Christopher Hogwood;
Guest Conductors: Simon Preston, Simon Standage)
Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble (No director; see Hausmusik)
Accademia Bizantina (Director: Carlo Chiarappa)
Accademia Serenissima, Venice (Director: Hermann Dreyer)
Les Adieux (No director)
Affetti Musicali (Guest conductor: Gabriel Garrido)
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
Aglaia Ensemble (No director)
Akademie fur Alte Musik, Berlin (Guest conductors: Marcus Creed,
Christoph Schoener)
Alla Francesca (No director)
Allesandro Stradella Consort (Director: Esteban Velardi)
Amadeus Winds (No director; Guest conductor: Christopher Hogwood)
Ama Deus Ensemble (Director: Valentin Radu)
Amati Quartet (No director)
American Baroque (Director: Stephen Schultz)
American Bach Soloists (Director: Jeffrey Thomas)
Amor Artis Orchestra (Director: Johannes Somary)
Amsterdam Baroque Ensemble (Director: Ton Koopman)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (Director: Ton Koopman)
Amsterdam Baroque Soloists (Director: Ton Koopman)
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (No director)
Amsterdam Monteverdi Ensemble (Director: Gustav Leonhardt)
Amsterdam Quartet (No director)
Anima Eterna Orchestra (Director: Jos van Immerseel)
Apollo's Fire (Director: Jeannette Sorrell) - Cleveland, Ohio
Arcadian Academy (Director: Nicholas McGegan)
L'Archibudelli Trio (No director)
L'Armonia e L'Inventione (Director: Alfredo Bernardini)
- members of Hesperion XX
Artaria Quartet (No director)
Artek (Director: Gwen Toth)
Les Arts Florissants Orchestra (Director: William Christie)
Augsburg Early Music Ensemble (No director)
Bach Ensemble (Director: Joshua Rifkin)
Bach-Mozart Ensemble Tokyo (Director: Masahiro Arita)
(a.k.a. Tokyo Bach-Mozart Ensemble)
Baltimore Consort (Director: ?)
Banchetto Musicale (Director: Martin Pearlman)
- Became "Boston Baroque"
Baroque Instrumental Ensemble (Director: Frans Brueggen)
Barockorchester Bremen (Director: Wolfgang Helbich)
Barockorchester Stuttgart (Director: ?)
Barokorkest van de Nederlandse Bachvereniging
(Director: Jos van Veldhoven & guest conductors)
Basel Schola Cantorum Orchestra (See Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Orchestra.)
Berliner Barock-Compagney (No director)
Biedermeier Quintet (No director)
Boccherini Quartet Tokyo (No director)
La Borea (Director: Johannes Leertouwer)
Boston Baroque (Director: Martin Pearlman)
Boston Camerata (Director: Joel Cohen)
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra (Guest conductors)
Boston Museum Trio (No director)
Boston Shawm and Sackbut Ensemble (Director: Dan Stilmann)
Brandenburg Consort and Orchestra (Director: Roy Goodman)
Brewer Baroque Chamber Orchestra (Director: Rudolph Palmer)
The Broadside Band (Director: Jeremy Barlow)
Budapest Concerto Armonico (See. Concerto Armonico)
Calliope A Renaissance Band (Director: ?)
Cambridge Baroque Camerata (Director: ?)
Camerata of the 18th Century (No director)
Camerata Koeln (Became La Stagione) (No director)
Cantus Coelln (Director: Konrad Junghaenel)
Capella Academica Wien (Director: ?)
Capella Agostino Steffani (Director: Lajos Rovatkay)
Capella Antiqua Bambergensis (No director)
Capella Clementina (??) (Director: Helmut Mueller-Bruehl)
Capella Coloniensis (Directors: Gabriele Ferro, William Christie,
Ulf Bjoerlin)
Capella Figuralis (Director: Jos van Veldhoven)
Capella Piccola (Director: Thomas Reuber)
Capella Ricecar (Director: Jerome Lejeune)
Capella Sagittariana Dresden (Director: Dietrich Knothe)
Capella Sancta Caecilia (Director: Ivan Zenaty)
Capella Savaria (Director: Pal Nemeth)
Capriccio Stravagante (Director: Skip Skempe)
Castle Trio (No director)
Chandos Baroque Players (No director)
La Chapelle Royale Orchestra (Director: Philippe Herreweghe)
Chanticleer Sinfonia (Director: Joseph Jennings)
- Includes members of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra;
Chanticleer Sinfonia is not a standing ensemble.
Chestnut Brass Co. (Director: Bruce Barrie)
Circa 1500 (Director: Nancy Hadden)
City of London Baroque Sinfonia (Directors: Ivor Bolton, Richard Hickox)
Classical Bande (Director: Bruno Weil)
Classical Winds (No director)
Clemencic Consort (Director: Rene Clemencic)
Collegium Aureum (Director: Gerhardt Schmidt-Gaden)
Collegium Cartusianum (Director: Peter Neumann)
Collegium Musicum 90 (Director: Simon Standage, Richard Hickox)
Collegium Vocale Orchestra, Ghent (Director: Phillipe Herreweghe)
Cologne Divitia Ensemble (No director)
Il Complesso Barocco (Director: Alan Curtis)
Concentus Musicus Wien (VCM) (Director: Nickolaus Harnoncourt)
Le Concert Francais (Director: Pierre Hantai)
Le Concert des Nations (Director: Jordi Savall)
Concert Royal (Director: James Richman) - NYC
Le Concert Royal (Director: Patrick Bismuth)
Le Concert Spirituel Orchestre (Director: Herve Niquet)
Il Concertino (No director)
Concerto Amsterdam (Directors: Jaap Schroeder, Frans Brueggen)
Concerto Armonico (Director: Miklos Spanyi) - Budapest
Concerto Copenhagen (Director: Andrew Manze)
Concerto Italiano (Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini)
Concerto Koeln (No director)
Concerto 91 (Director: Ricardo Kanji) - Utrecht/Amsterdam
Concerto Notturno Prague (No director)
Il Concerto Palatino (No director, ?Bruce Dickey?) - Bologna
Concerto Piccola (Director: Thomas Reuber)
Concerto Rococo (No director)
Concerto Vocale (Director: Rene Jacobs)
Concilium Musicum Wien (Director: Paul Angerer)
Consort of Musicke (Director: Anthony Rooley)
Corelli Chamber Orchestra (Director: Istvan Ella)
(a.k.a Corelli Kamarazenekar)
La Dada (No director)
Deller Consort (Director: Alfred Deller)
Die Deutsche Naturhornsolisten (Director: Oliver Kersen)
Die Deutschen Barocksolisten (No direcctor)
Dodworth Saxhorn Band (Director: ?)
Dowland Consort (Director: Jakob Lindberg)
The Dufay Collective (no director)
Duo Gervasio (No director; Baroque mandolin & guitar)
Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
(Guest conductors: Jaap Schroeder, Thomas Schuback)
Drottningholm Court Theater Orchestra (Director: Arnold Oestman)
Early Music Consort of London (Director: David Munrow)
L'Ecole d'Orphee (No director)
18th Century Ensemble (Director: James Litton)
Les Elements Amsterdam (Director: Alda Stuurop)
English Bach Festival Baroque Orchestra (Director: Corboz)
English Baroque Soloists (Director: John Eliot Gardiner)
- See Monteverdi Orchestra.
English Concert (Director: Trevor Pinnock)
Ensemble 415 (Director: Chiari Bianchini)
Ensemble Ad Fontes (Director: Beat Raaflaub)
Ensemble Alcatraz (No director)
Ensemble Amphion (No director)
Ensemble dell'Anima Eterna (Director: Jos van Immerseel)
Ensemble Aurora (Director: Enrico Gatti)
Ensemble Barocco Padovano Sans Souci (Director: Giuseppe Nalin)
Ensemble Baroque de Limoges (Director: Christophe Coin)
Ensemble Baroque de Mateus (Director: Marie Leonhardt)
Ensemble Baroque de Nice (Director: Gilbert Bezzina)
Ensemble Bouzignac (Director: Erik van Nevel?)
Ensemble Da Sonar (Director: ?)
Ensemble Divitia Cologne (No director)
Ensemble Eduard Melkus (Director: Eduard Melkus)
Ensemble Elyma (Director: Gabriel Garrido) - Geneva, Switzerland
Ensemble Fitzwilliam (No director)
Ensemble Florilegium (No director)
Ensemble Florilegium Musicum (Director: Hans Ludwig Hirsch)
Ensemble Gilles Binchois (Director: Dominique Vellard)
Ensemble Haydn-Heritage (Director: Hendrik Bouman)
Ensemble Instrumental (Director: Rene Jacobs)
Ensemble Jean-Marie Leclair (Director: Jean Estournet)
Ensemble Modo Antiqua (No director)
Ensemble Musica Poetica (Director: ?)
Ensemble Pian & Forte (No director)
Ensemble Project Ars Nova (Director: Michael Collver)
Ensemble Saga (No director)
Ensemble Schoenbrunn (See Schoenbrunn Ensemble Amsterdam)
Ensemble Sonnerie (See Trio Sonnerie.) (Director: Monica Huggett)
Ensemble la Symphonie du Marais (Director: Hugo Reyne)
Ensemble Stradivaria (No director)
Ensemble de Violes Orlando Gibbons (No director)
Ensemble Zefiro (No director)
Equale Brass Ensemble (Director: ?)
L'Estro Armonico (Director: Derek Solomons)
L'Europa Galante (Director: Fabio Biondi)
European Baroque Soloists (No director)
European Community Baroque Orchestra (Directors: Roy Goodman,
Monica Huggett)
Ex Cathedra Baroque Orchestra (Director: Jeffrey Skidmore)
La Fenice (Director: Jean Tubery)
Fiori Musicale (Director: Thomas Albert)
Folger Consort (No director)
Il Fondamento (Director: Paul Dombrecht)
La Fontegara Amsterdam (No director)
Four Nations Ensemble (No director)
Freiburger Barocksolisten (Director: Guenter Theis)
Freiburger Barockorchester (Conductor/leader: Thomas Hengelbrock or
Gottfried von der Goltz)
Fretwork (No director)
Friedemann Immer Natural Trumpet Ensemble (Director: ?)
Gabrieli Consort & Players (Director: Paul McCreesh)
Galimathias Musicum (No director)
Gamerith Consort (Director: Wolfgang Gamerith)
German Baroque Soloists (See Deutschen Barocksolisten.)
Il Giardino Armonico (No director) - Milan
Gioia della Musica, Prague (Director: Mark Brown)
Grand Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy (Director: Jean-Claude Malgoire)
Handel and Haydn Society (Director: Christopher Hogwood)
Hanover Band (Conductor: Roy Goodman, Anthony Halstead;
Artistic Director: Caroline Brown)
L'Harmonie Bohemienne (Director: Gilles Thome)
Hausmusik (No director; See Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble)
Haydn Sinfonietta Wien (Director: Manfred Huss)
Helicon (Director: Albert Fuller)
Hesperion XX (Director: Jordi Savall)
His Majesties Sagbutts & Cornetts (Director: Jeremy West)
Invocation (Director: Timothy Roberts)
King's Consort (Director: Robert King)
King's Consort of Viols (No director)
King's Musick (Director: Alfred Deller)
King's Noyse (Director: David Douglass)
Kithara (No director)
Das Kleine Konzert (Director: Hermann Max)
Kuijken Ensemble (No director)
Kuijken String Quartet (No director)
Landini Consort (No director)
Lautten Compagney (No director)
Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble (Director: Gustav Leonhardt)
- Became the Leonhardt Consort
Leonhardt Consort (Director: Gustav Leonhardt)
Linde Consort - (Director: Hans-Martin Linde)
Locatelli Trio (No director)
Locke Consort (No director)
London Baroque (Director: Charles Medlam)
London Baroque Players (Director: Roger Norrington)
London Classical Players (Director: Roger Norrington)
London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble (Director: ?)
London Fortepiano Trio (No director)
London Handel Orchestra (Director: Denys Darlow)
London Oboe Band (Director: Paul Goodwin)
London Vivaldi Orchestra (Director: Monica Huggett)
Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra (Director: Gregory Maldonado)
Mandel Quartet (No director)
Mare Balticum Ensemble (No director)
La Maurache (No director)
Melante Amsterdam & Melante 81 Orchestra (Director: Bob van Asperen)
Mellstock Band (Director: ?)
Mensa Sonora (Director: Jean Maillet)
Monteverdi Orchestra (Director: John Eliot Gardiner)
- Became the English Baroque Soloists (NOTE: See end comment.)
Monteverdi Orchester Muenchen (Director: Wolfgang Kelber)
More Maiorum (No director)
Mozartean Players (No director)
Mozzafiato (Director: Charles Neidich)
Music from Aston Magna (Director: Daniel Stepner)
Music's Re-creation (No director)
Musica Alta Ripa (No director)
Musica Antiqua Koeln (Director: Reinhardt Goebel)
Musica Antiqua Prague (Director: Pavel Klikar)
Musica Antiqua Toulon (Director: Christian Mendoze)
Musica Bohemica (Director: J. Krcek)
Musica Classica (No director)
Musica Fiata Koeln (Director: Roland Wilson)
Musica Petropolitana (No director)
Musica Polyphonica (Director: Louis Devos)
Musica ad Rhenum (Director: Jed Wentz)
Musica Secreta (No director)
Musica Segreta (Director: Leonardo Waisman) - Cordoba, Argentina
Musicians of Swanne Alley (No director)
Les Musiciens du Louvre (Director: Marc Minkowski)
Netherlands Bach Society Collegium Musicum (Director: Gustav Leonhardt)
Das Neue Orchester (Director: Christoph Spering)
The New Consort (No director)
New London Consort (Director: Phillip Pickett)
New Mozart Ensemble (No director)
New York Cornet and Sackbut Ensemble (Director: Ben Peck)
Nice Baroque Ensemble (Director: Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden)
Les Nieces de Rameau (No director)
Norwegian Baroque Orchestra
(Guest conductors: Ketil Haugsand, Andrew Parrott)
Le Nouveau Quatuor (No director)
Octophoros (Director: Paul Dombrecht)
Opera Restor'd (Director: Peter Holman)
Orch. of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) (Guest conductors)
Orch. of the 18th Century (Director: Frans Brueggen)
(a.k.a. Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw)
Orchestra della Capella Musicale di San Petronio
(Director: Sergio Vartolo)
Orchestra of Westminster Abbey (Director: Simon Preston)
Orchestra of the Sixteen (See "The Sixteen Orchestra" below.)
Orchestre des Champs Elysees (Director: Philippe Herreweghe)
Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique (Director: John Eliot Gardiner)
Oriana (Director: Lisa Terry) - a viol trio; NYC
Palladin Ensemble (No director)
Le Parlement de Musique (Director: Martin Gester)
Paride e Bernardo Dusi (Director: ?)
Parley of Instruments & Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra
(Directors: Roy Goodman, Peter Holman, Paul Nicholson)
Il Parnaso Musicale (No director)
Parthenia (Director: Patricia Neeley) - NYC
Parthenia Baroque (Director: Christian Brembeck)
Passion Band (Director: Paul Goodwin)
La Petite Bande (Director: Sigiswald Kuijken)
Philadelphia Renaissance Band (Director: Bob Weimkin, Joan Kimball)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (Director: Nicholas McGegan)
Philidor Ensemble (No director)
- includes members of Orch. of the 18th Century.
Pittsburgh Early Music Ensemble (No director)
Portland Baroque Orchestra (Director: Monica Huggett)
Posaunen Collegium Leipzig (Director: ?)
Prague Musica Antiqua (See Musica Antiqua Prague)
Purcell Quartet (No director)
Quadro Amsterdam (No director)
Quatour Festetics (No director)
Quatour Mosaiques (No director)
Quatour Ricercar (No director)
La Quatrieme Chambre (No director)
Raglan Baroque Orchestra (Director: Nicholas Kraemer)
Florata (Director: Tim Rayborn)
The Revolutionary Drawing Room (No director)
Ricercar Academy (Director: Marcel Ponseele)
Ricercar Consort (Director: Philippe Pierlot)
Romanesca (Guest conductor: Nicholas McGegan)
Rose Consort of Viols (No director)
Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse (Director: Jean-Pierre Canihac)
Saint James' Baroque Players (Director: Ivor Bolton)
Saint Luke's Baroque Orchestra (Director: Rudolph Palmer)
Salomon String Quartet (No director)
Salzburger Hofmusik (Director: Wolfgang Brunner)
Sans Souci Baroque Ensemble, Padua (Director: Giuseppe Nalin)
Sator Musicae (Director: Roberto Meo)
Scaramouche (No director)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Orchestra (Conductors: Rene Jacobs, Edward
Tarr)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Trumpet Ensemble (Director: ?)
Scholars Baroque Ensemble (Director: David van Asch)
Schoenbrunn Ensemble Amsterdam (No director)
Schuetz Consort (Director: Roger Norrington)
Il Seminario Musicale Ensemble (Director: Gerard Lesne)
Sequentia (Benjamin Bagby and Barbara Thornton) - Cologne, Germany
La Serenata (No director)
La Sfera Armoniosa (No director)
La Simphonie du Marais (Director: Hugo Reyne)
Sinfonye (Stevie Wishart)
The Sixteen Orchestra (Director: Harry Christophers)
(a.k.a. Orchestra of the Sixteen)
Smithson Quartet (Director: Jaap Schroeder)
Smithsonian Chamber Players (Director: Kenneth Slowik)
Spectre de la Rose (No director)
La Stagione - Frankfurt (Director: Michael Schneider)
- Originated from Camerata Koeln
Steintor Barock Bremen (Director: Wolfgang Helbich)
La Stravaganza Koeln (Director: Andrew Manze)
Tafelmusik & Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Directors: Jean Lamon and
Bruno Weil; Guest conductor: Alan Curtis)
Les Talens Lyriques (Director: Christophe Rousset)
Taverner Consort and Players (Director: Andrew Parrot)
Tokyo Bach-Mozart Ensemble (See Bach-Mozart Ensemble Tokyo above.)
Tokyo Baroque Trio (No director)
Tragicomedia (Director: Stephen Stubbs)
Trio 1790 (No director)
Trio Con Fusa (No director)
Trio Sonnerie (See Ensemble Sonnerie.) (No director)
Ulsamer-Collegium (Director: Josef Ulsamer)
Les Violins du Roy (Director: Bernard Labadie)
Virelai (Director: Sarah Cunningham?)
The Whole Noyse (No director)
Wiener Akademie (Director: M. Haselboeck)
The York Waits (No director)
While honorable mention goes to...
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NOTE: The following musical groups frequently record music
from the baroque and classical periods. However, they do NOT
use period instruments in their performances.
Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields
(Directors: Neville Mariner and Iona Brown)
Amsterdam Bach Soloists (Guest conductor: Marc Minkowski)
Bach Collegium Stuttgart (Director: Helmuth Rilling)
Camerata Bern (Director: Thomas Fueri)
CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra (a.k.a. Kammerorchester CPE Bach)
(Director: Hartmut Haenchen)
Cantilena (Director: Adrian Sheppard)
Capella Istropolitana
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam (Director: Jan Willem de Vriend)
Consortium Classicum
Guidhall String Ensemble
Paillard Chamber Orchestra (Director: Jean-Francois Paillard)
London Harpsichord Ensemble
Munich Bach Orchestra (Director: Karl Richter)
I Musici
I Musici de Montreal
New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig (Director: Max Pommer)
I Solisti Veneti (Director: Claudio Scimone)
Virtuosi Saxoniae (Director: Ludwig Guettler)
PERIOD INSTRUMENT/AUTHENTIC PERFORMANCE RECORDING LABELS
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Accent
Amon Ra
Archiv Produktion (Deutsche Grammophon)*
Astree - Auvidis
ASV - Gaudeamus
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG)
Chandos - Chaconne
Denon - Aliare
EMI Classics - Baroque Special
EMI Reflexe
Fnac Music (?)
Hungaroton - Antiqua
Musica Oscura
L'Oiseau Lyre (includes the Florilegium series) - [Decca (London)]
Ricercar
Sony Classical - Vivarte
Teldec - Das Alte Werk
Virgin Classics - Veritas (recently procured by EMI)
Vox Temporis
* Exceptions include earlier recordings featuring Camerata Bern
and the Munich Bach Orchestra.
NOTE: Although several labels (e.g., Berlin Classics, Capriccio,
Disques Pierre Verany, Erato Disques, Harmonia Mundi France,
Hyperion, Opus 111, Philips Digital Classics, etc.) offer
recordings of musical groups employing period instrument
performing practice, no special "period performance" label
exists for these labels. However, Philips Digital Classics
frequently notes on the CD front or back cover whether or not
the performing musical group employed "authentic" instruments.
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NOTE ABOUT THE MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA: Prior to formation of the
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner made recordings
for Erato Disques with the Monteverdi Orchestra. Of those
recordings, only Purcell's "The Indian Queen" and "The Tempest"
used period instruments. The remaining Monteverdi Orchestra
recordings on Erato Disques used modern instruments: Purcell's
"Come ye Sons of Art Away; Funeral Music for Queen Mary," and
Handel's "Israel in Egypt; The Ways of Zion do Mourn," as well
as "Dixit Dominus."
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Washington, DC ever lived. I would uncover my head,
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- L. v. Beethoven (1823)
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