Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
The Drottningholm Court Baroque Ensemble was founded in 1971 by Lars Brolin using players from within the Stockholm Royal Opera Orchestra. The band takes its name from the Drottningholm Slottstheater, built on the island of Mälaren located directly opposite the city of Stockholm by King Gustaf III in 1766. The theater, built primarily for opera performances, was later incorporated into the Royal Palace complex, also built by Gustaf III and not completed until 1782. In 1792 Gustaf III was assassinated in the Drottningholm Slottstheater during a masquerade ball, an event that was later incorporated into an opera, Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. Gustaf's successor threatened to tear the Slottstheater down, but ultimately the building was simply locked up, encapsulating its original theatrical machinery, curtains, and interiors in an unchanged form for the next century and a half. Theatrical stagings were revived at the Slottstheater staring in the early '20s, and the theater's unique eighteenth century ambiance has been utilized as a setting for Ingmar Bergman's 1976 film of Mozart's The Magic Flute.
Needless to say, once you uncover an eighteenth century theater neatly locked away, as in a time capsule, you would want an appropriate period instrument musical ensemble to go with it. Yet it took five decades for musical scholarship to catch up with such an exigency. Once it was founded, another 15 years passed before the Drottningholm Court Baroque Ensemble was up to the business of recording. Its maiden effort, a 1986 rendering of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons led by Nils-Erik Sparf on the Swedish Bis label, was received with accolades of acclaim by reviewers and listeners everywhere. In the past two decades, the talents of the Drottningholm Court Baroque Ensemble have sustained them through roughly two dozen recordings for labels such as Bis, Naxos, Musica Sveciae, and Proprius. In the opening years of the twentieth century, subsidies from the Swedish government began to dry up in the face of hard economic times, and the Drottningholm Slottstheater was forced to shorten its season. Nonetheless, in recent years the theater has found the means to commission new operas from contemporary composers in addition to staging the Baroque- and Classical-period opera revivals that constitute its main fare. The Drottningholm Court Baroque Ensemble is kin to its sister organization, the Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra.
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J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Eric Ericson, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Classical - Released by Naxos Sweden - Proprius Records on 1 Jan 2002
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Johan Helmich Roman: Sinfonior
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Classical - Released by Naxos Sweden - Musica Sveciae on 1 Jan 1990
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Baroque Trumpet (The Art Of The), Vol. 1
Niklas Eklund, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Nils-Erik Sparf
Concertos - Released by Naxos on 1 Jan 1995
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Händel, Monteverdi, Telemann: Arias
Anne Sofie von Otter, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Proprius on 1 Apr 2014
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Roman: Drottningholmsmusiken / The Royal Wedding Music of Drottningholm
Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Bjorn Gafvert, Nils-Erik Sparf
Classical - Released by Musica Sveciae on 1 Jan 1972
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The Musical Treasures Of Leufsta Bruk, Vol. 1
Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Classical - Released by BIS on 1 May 2006
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Vivaldi: Complete Works for the Italian Lute
Jakob Lindberg, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Classical - Released by BIS on 1 Jan 1985
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Funeral Music for Gustav III
Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Classical - Released by Naxos Sweden - Musica Sveciae on 1 May 1988
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Barock
Andrew Dalton, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Proprius on 1 Apr 2014
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Jefta and Other Works From the Baroque
Ängby Chamber Choir, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Classical - Released by Naxos Sweden - Proprius Records on 1 Jan 1995
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Pehrsson, Clas: Music for Recorder Ensemble
Clas Pehrsson, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Musica Dolce
Classical - Released by BIS on 1 Jan 1987
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Bach, JS: 6 Motets
Eric Ericson, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 1 Jan 1992
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Johan Helmich Roman: Cantatas
Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Classical - Released by Naxos Sweden - Musica Sveciae on 1 Jan 1993
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Baroque Trumpet Concertos
Niklas Eklund, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Jeffrey Segal, Nils-Erik Sparf, Wasa Baroque Ensemble, Edward Tarr
Classical - Released by Naxos on 1 Jan 2007
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Leufsta Bruk, vol.2
Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 7 Jun 2011
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Johan Helmich Roman – A Musical Portrait
Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Classical - Released by Musica Sveciae on 1 Jan 1996
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Then Svenska Messan
Adolf Fredriks Bachkör, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Classical - Released by Naxos Sweden - Proprius Records on 1 Jan 1987
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Vivaldi: Recorder Concertos
Dan Laurin, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Classical - Released by BIS on 30 Nov 1993
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Bach - Händel - Schütz
Adolf Fredriks Bachkör, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Classical - Released by Naxos Sweden - Proprius Records on 1 Jan 1995
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Bach: St. John Passion
Eric Ericson, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Classical - Released by Naxos Sweden - Proprius Records on 1 Jan 2002
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Roman: the Golovin Music
Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Classical - Released by Caprice on 1 Jan 1986
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