Apollo's Fire
Based in Cleveland, Ohio, far from the cities of the historical performance mainstream, Apollo's Fire is an innovative, popular, and critically acclaimed group devoted to repertory from the Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classical eras. Typically, Apollo's Fire has a subscription concert schedule consisting of five to seven programs yearly, with each concert performed several times over a three- or four-day period. In addition, the group regularly tours throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Offering the kind of freethinking that develops best when it's far from established scenes, Apollo's Fire continues to push historical performance in new directions. Most of its recordings have achieved both impressive sales and critical plaudits, recording with greater frequency since the turn of the new century. In 2022, Apollo's Fire issued a live recording taken from 2018 and 2020 of Jeannette Sorrell's O Jerusalem! City of Three Faiths.
Apollo's Fire was founded in 1992 by harpsichordist and conductor Sorrell. As a harpsichord student of Gustav Leonhardt and a conducting student of Leonard Bernstein and Roger Norrington, Sorrell possesses impeccable credentials. She attracted many musicians from the Netherlands with the intention of assembling an orchestra devoted to historical practices in performance as laid down by Leonhardt, Anner Bylsma, and Sigiswald Kuijken. Apollo's Fire consists of about 35 players and often uses guest artists during performances. The size of the ensemble can vary depending on the work, shrinking to chamber size or swelling to stage-filling proportions for choral works where the group often employs its sister enterprise, Apollo's Singers. That ensemble has about 20 members and is also highly respected. By the mid-'90s, Apollo's Fire had achieved wide acclaim, as evidenced by the Noah Greenberg Award given to it in 1995. A pair of recordings from 1999 -- Monteverdi's Vespro Della Beata Virgine and Noël Ancien (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World) -- were both critical successes and augured further artistic triumphs for the players.
The program recorded on the 2011 release Come to the River: An Early American Gathering exemplified a branch of Apollo's Fire's efforts directed toward the performance of American folk and traditional music. The group ventured into Celtic music in 2012 with Sacrum Mysterium: A Celtic Christmas Vespers and returned to the American tradition with Sugarloaf Mountain: An Appalachian Gathering in 2015. The group also took on Sephardic music with 2016's Sephardic Journey: Wanderings of the Spanish Jews. Apollo's Fire has issued straightforward collections of Baroque arias and choral works, but perhaps most characteristic of the group's originality were its acclaimed 2017 performances and recording of Bach's St. John Passion, BWV 245, which was performed in New York as well as Cleveland. The live performances were semi-staged, with the soloists moving around and addressing each other on-stage rather than singing to the audience. The audience itself was infiltrated by members of the chorus. In 2018, Sorrell and Apollo's Fire backed tenor Karim Sulayman on the album Songs of Orpheus, which won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. The group returned in 2021 with a recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons featuring its artist-in-residence, Francisco Fullana, on violin. Apollo's Fire kicked off its 30th anniversary year of 2022 by issuing a live recording from 2018 and 2020 of Sorrell's O Jerusalem! City of Three Faiths.
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Discographie
21 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 6 oct. 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell, Francisco Fullana
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 22 oct. 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi: La Folia (Madness) & Other Concertos
Classique - Paru chez Avie Records le 8 févr. 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Christmas Vespers: Music of Michael Praetorius
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Classique - Paru chez Avie Records le 23 oct. 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Heavenly Bach - Arias & Cantatas of J.S. Bach
Amanda Forsythe, Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 18 nov. 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Musiques de Noël - Paru chez AVIE Records le 19 oct. 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Telemann: Don Quixote and Other Suites & Concertos
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Classique - Paru chez Avie Records le 26 juil. 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Songs of Orpheus
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 6 avr. 2018
Grammy Awards24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Handel: Dixit Dominus - Zadok the Priest - Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Classique - Paru chez Avie Records le 9 oct. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sephardic Journey. Wanderings of the Spanish Jews
Classique - Paru chez Avie Records le 5 févr. 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
O Jerusalem! City of Three Faiths (Live)
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Musiques du monde - Paru chez AVIE Records le 11 févr. 2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Sacrum Mysterium (A Celtic Christmas Vespers)
Apollo's Fire, Meredith Hall, Ensemble La Nef, Sylvain Bergeron
Classique - Paru chez Avie Records le 11 sept. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas
Alan Choo, Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 1 mars 2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Handel: Messiah
Classique - Paru chez Avie Records le 9 nov. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Noels & Carols From The Olde World
Musiques de Noël - Paru chez eOne Music International Classics le 5 oct. 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
J. S. Bach: St. John Passion
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Classique - Paru chez Avie Records le 3 mars 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Monteverdi: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1610)
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 1 janv. 1999
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Come to the River - An Early American Gathering
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 13 sept. 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonata: No. 9 in A Minor “The Carrying of the Cross”: I. Sonata
Alan Choo, Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 16 févr. 2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Piano Concertos
Classique - Paru chez eOne Music International Classics le 22 févr. 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonata: No. 1 in D Minor “The Annunciation”: II. Aria (Allegro) - Variatio – Finale
Alan Choo, Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 2 févr. 2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo