Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra is the leading early music ensemble in Australia.
It was proposed by Paul Dyer, a leading harpsichordist and early music scholar, with a debut planned for the Sydney Opera House's summer Mostly Mozart Festival of January 1990. Dyer assembled leading early instrument specialists and began intensive rehearsals in 1989 for their debut.
The debut was a success and established Australia as having joined the international "authentic" performance movement. Within the first ten years of its existence, it gained a reputation as being among the ranks of leading early music orchestra groups. Paul Dyer has remained its Artistic Director.
The ABO (named, of course, after Johann Sebastian Bach's famous set of six Brandenburg Concertos) immediately came into demand. It appeared in the Sydney Festival in 1991-1994 and 1998-1999 and at the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts in 1995. It has appeared with such artists as singers Yvonne Kenny, Graham Pushee, Emma Kirkby, and Derek Lee Ragin, and Australian-born early music violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch.
It first performed as an opera orchestra in 1993, playing in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea with The Australian Opera in the Sydney summer season. In 1994 it was described by a newspaper critic as "Australia's hottest orchestra."
The orchestra records for the ABC Classics label. Its recording with countertenor Graham Pushee in Händel arias was named ABC-FM (Australian Broadcasting Company) Best Recording of the Year and the 24 Hours Magazine Listeners' Choice Award for 1995. Its recording of Vivaldi's The Fours Seasons won the Listeners' Choice Award in 1997, and another set of Händel Arias, this time with Yvonne Kenny, was named the Australian Recording Industry Association winner for Best Classical Recording in 1998.
The ABO receives substantial corporate sponsorship and an annual grant from the NSW Ministry for the Arts. Its first trip abroad was to Tokyo, where a small ensemble of ABO soloists, conducted by Paul Dyer, accompanied Derek Lee Ragin in a well-received concert in March 1998.
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Discography
18 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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A Celtic Christmas (Live)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 17 Oct 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Grosso Mogul / The Cuckow
Elizabeth Wallfisch, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 18 Mar 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 7 Aug 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus; Concerto for Strings & Continuo in F etc.
Andreas Scholl, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Baroque Favourites
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 3 Sep 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Romantics: Grieg - Mendelssohn - Paganini
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Shunske Sato
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 3 Feb 2017
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Tapas - Tastes of the Baroque
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 5 Mar 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sanctuary
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 1 Jan 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
A Very Brandenburg Christmas
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 6 Nov 2015
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Great Vivaldi Concertos
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 1 Apr 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Noël! Noël! Christmas with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 8 Nov 2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brandenburg Celebrates
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 7 Aug 2015
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
A Brandenburg Christmas
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 4 Nov 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
If Love's a Sweet Passion
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer, Sara Macliver
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 21 Apr 2017
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (1000 Years of Classical Music, Vol. 9)
Elizabeth Wallfisch, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 18 Mar 2016
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Noël! Noël! Live in Concert (Live At St Francis of Assisi Church, Paddington, Sydney, 2016)
Brandenburg Choir, Paul Dyer, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 17 Nov 2017
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Brandenburg Favourites
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 5 May 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Collection
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Classical - Released by ABC Classic on 5 Jan 1996
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo