Frans Brüggen
Frans Brüggen became one of the world's top recorder players and a leader in the revival of Baroque and other early music before switching his emphasis to conducting and gaining equal acclaim. He studied the recorder and the standard transverse flute, as well as musicology at the University of Amsterdam. Attending the Muzieklyceum, Amsterdam, he embarked upon recorder studies with Kees Otten, who was a student of Karl Dolmetsch, the great rediscoverer of the instrument in the 20th century. Brüggen decided to specialize in the recorder and in historical versions of the transverse flute. He became the first student of the Muzieklyceum to graduate with a diploma in recorder.
Thanks to the confluence of his own talents and the tremendous reawakening of interest in early music in the 1960s and 1970s, Brüggen evolved into something of an international recorder star. He was known for a brilliant and rapidly fluent technique and total devotion to historical accuracy, often established by his own research. Yet he was musical and often deeply affecting in performance. Brüggen was credited with inspiring succeeding generations of players; he became a highly respected teacher not only of the instrument, but also of interpretation and performance practice. He joined the faculty of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague as professor of flute and in 1972-73 was the visiting Erasmus Professor of late Baroque Music at Harvard University. Brüggen wrote exercise compositions for recorder students and treatises on playing the instrument. He also prepared editions of Baroque music.
Though recognized for his recorder performances in the early music field, Brüggen also commissioned several new works for the instrument, including Gesti (1966) by Luciano Berio. He began to conduct music of various eras, and formed an avant-garde music group called Sourcream. Gradually he began to emphasize conducting and in 1981 founded the Orchestra of the 18th Century, an international group of specialists in early instrument performance who gather twice yearly in Amsterdam for concerts and touring. They play music of the later Baroque era (Purcell, Rameau, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and their contemporaries), the Classical era including Beethoven, and occasionally works from the earliest days of musical Romanticism, such as that of Mendelssohn.
He also was guest conductor with some of the most famous standard-repertory orchestras: the Orchestre de Paris, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and many others. As an opera conductor he led Mozart's Mitridate, King of Ponto in Zurich and Gluck's Orfeo at the Lyons National Opera. In 1991, he was invited by Simon Rattle to participate in a series of recordings of music of Bach and Haydn with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, another leading Baroque-Classical specialty orchestra. He made well over 100 recordings, both as a recorder player and a conductor.
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Bach: Passie en Pasen
Johann Sebastian Bach, Frans Brüggen
Classical - Released by UME - Global Clearing House on 2 Apr 2021
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Teleman, Loeillet & Others: Recorder Works
Chamber Music - Released by IDIS on 25 Sep 2020
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Bach : St John Passion, BWV 245 (Frans Brüggen)
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by Glossa on 1 Mar 2011
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Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 99 & 102
Frans Brüggen, Orchestra Of The 18th Century
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Aug 1992
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41
Frans Brüggen, Orchestra Of The 18th Century
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1992
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Bach, J.S.: St. Matthew Passion
Frans Brüggen, Netherlands Chamber Choir, Orchestra Of The 18th Century
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 23 Feb 1998
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto; 2 Romances
Thomas Zehetmair, Orchestra Of The 18th Century, Frans Brüggen
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1998
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Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 100 & 104
Frans Brüggen, Orchestra Of The 18th Century
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Nov 1992
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 28 & 36
Frans Brüggen, Orchestra Of The 18th Century
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1991
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Jean-Philippe Rameau : Nais Suite - Zoroastre Suite
Theatre Music - Released by Glossa on 1 Jan 2001
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Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
Frans Brüggen, Orchestra Of The 18th Century
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1989
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The Early Recordings, Vol. 1
Frans Brüggen, The Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra, Anner Bylsma, André Rieu, Gustav Leonhardt
Classical - Released by IDIS on 11 May 2018
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
Frans Brüggen, Orchestra Of The 18th Century
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1990
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Bach, J.S.: The Four Orchestral Suites
Frans Brüggen, Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 14 Apr 1997
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Beethoven : Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
Orchestra Of The 18th Century, Frans Brüggen
Symphonies - Released by Glossa on 7 Apr 2014
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Mozart: Haffner Serenade etc
Lucy Van Dael, Orchestra Of The 18th Century, Frans Brüggen
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Aug 1992
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Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 94, 95 & 96
Frans Brüggen, Orchestra Of The 18th Century
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jun 1995
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Telemann: Recorder Sonatas & Fantasias
Frans Brüggen, Anner Bylsma, Gustav Leonhardt
Classical - Released by Warner Classics International on 1 Jul 1993
The Qobuz Essential Discography16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Early Recordings, Vol. 2
Classical - Released by IDIS on 7 Jun 2019
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Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3, 'Scottish' and 4, 'Italian'
Orchestra Of The 18th Century, Frans Brüggen
Classical - Released by Glossa on 3 Jun 2013
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Haydn Symphonien Nr. 45, Nr. 48 & Nr. 49 (Audior)
Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment, Frans Brüggen
Classical - Released by Decca on 1 Jan 2009
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