Martin Pearlman
By any reckoning, conductor Martin Pearlman has been a leading figure in the American early music movement, having established the influential Boston Baroque period instrument orchestra and chorus and led it since its beginnings as Banchetto Musicale in 1973. He has presented the American or Boston premieres of numerous Baroque works, and is also a noted composer, educator, harpsichordist, and scholar. Pearlman was born in Chicago on May 21, 1945. His college education at Cornell University included both composition and harpsichord performance, the latter unusual in an American institution at the time. Among his composition teachers was Karel Husa. Pearlman also studied violin and piano. He received a Fulbright fellowship and moved to Amsterdam for studies with Dutch harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt, then returned to the U.S. and enrolled in the master's program in composition at Yale, studying composition with Yehudi Wyner, experimenting with electronic music, and continuing to study harpsichord with the top American player of the day, Ralph Kirkpatrick. In the early 1970s he concertized widely as a harpsichordist, winning the Erwin Bodky Competition in Boston and, notably, scoring a prize at the Festival of Flanders competition in Bruges, Belgium. Pearlman established Banchetto Musicale in the 1973-1974 season, naming it ("Musical Banquet") after a collection of works by German early Baroque composer Johann Hermann Schein; in 1992, the group was renamed Boston Baroque. That group has presented an annual series in Boston that has included the modern world premiere of the singspiel opera Der Stein der Weisen (The Philosopher's Stone), co-composed by Mozart, as well as new versions of Mozart's incomplete short comic opera Lo sposo deluso, K. 430, and Purcell's The Comic History of Don Quixote. He gave the Boston premieres of all three Monteverdi operas as well as of Rameau's Zoroastre. Pearlman has a long guest-conducting résumé that includes appearances with the Washington Opera, the Utah Opera, Opera Columbus, the San Antonio Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the New World Symphony; he is an enthusiastic conductor of both opera and instrumental music. With Banchetto Musicale and Boston Baroque he has made over 25 albums, many of them on the Telarc label; four of them earned Grammy award nominations, and to date, Pearlman is the only historical-performance-oriented conductor to appear on the Grammy telecast. He has also released several albums as a solo harpsichordist. In 2018, Boston Baroque, with Pearlman on keyboards and violinist Christina Day Martinson, became the first American group to record on Britain's Linn label, with a reading of Heinrich Ignaz von Biber's Mystery Sonatas. Pearlman has taught and directed Baroque ensembles at Boston University since 2002. He has made performing editions of works by Monteverdi and others. Pearlman's compositions include incidental music for three plays by Samuel Beckett, commissioned in 2006 for the centennial of the playwright's birth and performed at Harvard University and New York's 92nd Street Y.
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Geminiani: Concerti grossi Nos. 4 & 12
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman, Christina Day Martinson
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 13.01.2009
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Biber: The Mystery Sonatas
Christina Day Martinson, Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Linn Records am 01.04.2018
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Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206
Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 01.10.1997
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Mozart: Solemn Vespers of the Confessor & Coronation Mass
Banchetto Musicale, Martin Pearlman
Messen, Passionen, Requiems - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 29.12.2005
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Mozart, Henneberg, Schack, Gerl & Schikaneder: Der Stein der Weisen
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 01.08.1999
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56
Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque, Karen Clift, Catherine Robbin, Bruce Fowler, Victor Ledbetter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 01.09.1992
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Cherubini: Requiem in C Minor & Marche funèbre - Beethoven: Elegiac Song, Op. 118
Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 08.01.2007
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Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 7-12
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 29.01.2008
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Mozart: Arias for Male Soprano
Michael Maniaci, Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 01.01.2009
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Bach: The Complete Orchestral Suites
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 27.04.2004
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Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks & Water Music
Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 18.02.2003
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Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589 - Bach: Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243
Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 24.01.2006
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Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman, Mary Wilson
Klassik - Erschienen bei Linn Records am 01.01.2013
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Bach: The Complete Brandenburg Concertos
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 23.07.1996
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Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 1-6
Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 01.05.1992
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Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 22.02.2000
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Haydn: The Creation
Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Linn Records am 09.07.2012
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (Highlights)
Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque, Karen Clift, Catherine Robbin, Bruce Fowler, Victor Ledbetter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 01.01.1993
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Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (New Completion by Robert Levin)
Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 01.08.1995
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Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 4, 5 & 6
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 01.05.1993
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Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 3
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
Klassik - Erschienen bei Telarc am 01.08.1994
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