Orfeo Orchestra
Based in Budapest, the Orfeo Orchestra is a period instrument ensemble founded by György Vashegyi to perform with the Purcell Choir. It still does so, but it has gone on to perform orchestral music and opera independently of that group.
György Vashegyi was a Hungarian conductor, multi-instrumentalist, and continuo player when he formed the Purcell Choir in 1990 for a performance of Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. Similarly, he established the period instrument Orfeo Orchestra the following year to accompany a performance of Monteverdi's opera Orfeo, the first one in Hungary. Vashegyi intended the orchestra to follow an English early music model, with emphasis on hearing the sounds of individual instruments, and he recruited Baroque violinist Simon Standage as concertmaster to this end. Vashegyi remains the orchestra's conductor, and the group continues to perform with the Purcell Choir. In 1998, the Orfeo Orchestra made its recording debut on the Hungaroton label, backing the Purcell Choir on the album Istvánffy: St. Benedict Mass; Kraus: Requiem.
As the orchestra developed, it also began to perform and record independently of the Purcell Choir. Its first all-instrumental recording came in 2002 with Tartini: Four Concertos for Violin and Orchestra, with violinist László Paulik. Between 2002 and 2007, the Orfeo Orchestra performed Haydn's first 80 symphonies composed at Esterházy Palace, Haydn's employer for many years, using the exact forces used by Haydn at the works' premiere performances. The group has been heard frequently at festivals both within and outside Hungary, including the Hungarian Haydn Society's Haydn Festival at Esterházy Palace and the Toujours Mozart Festival in Salzburg and Vienna. The Orfeo Orchestra has attracted increasingly prestigious guest conductors such as Helmuth Rilling, René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe, and Masaaki Suzuki. The orchestra moved to the Glossa label in 2016, backing the Purcell Choir on a recording of Grands Motets by Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville. The Orfeo Orchestra has toured well beyond Hungary, appearing at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 2019. It has continued to record for Glossa, where it was heard on a recording of Rameau's opera Les Fête d'Hébé in 2022. It has also been heard on the early music specialist label Palazzetto Bru Zane.
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Discografia
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Jouissons de nos beaux ans !
Cyrille Dubois, Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
Classica - Pubblicato da Aparté il 15 set 2023
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Leclair: Scylla et Glaucus, Op. 11
Orfeo Orchestra, György Vashegyi, Judith van Wanroij, Cyrille Dubois, Véronique Gens, Purcell Choir
Opera - Pubblicato da Glossa il 20 ott 2023
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Brillez, astres nouveaux! (Airs d'opéra baroque français)
Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
Classica - Pubblicato da Aparté il 31 gen 2020
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Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé, RCT 41
Opera - Pubblicato da Glossa il 20 mag 2022
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Mondonville : Isbé
Classica - Pubblicato da Glossa il 20 gen 2017
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Luigi Cherubini: Les Abencérages
Orfeo Orchestra, György Vashegyi, Anaïs Constans
Classica - Pubblicato da Bru Zane il 11 nov 2022
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Un opéra pour trois rois
Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, György Vashegyi, Emöke Baráth, Thomas Dolié
Classica - Pubblicato da Glossa il 6 ott 2017
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Gervais : Hypermnestre
Opera - Pubblicato da Glossa il 4 ott 2019
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Boismortier: Les voyages de l'Amour, Op. 60
Classica - Pubblicato da Glossa il 2 ott 2020
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Méhul: Adrien
Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra, György Vashegyi
Classica - Pubblicato da Bru Zane il 31 lug 2015
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Rameau: Dardanus, RCT 35 (Revised 1744 Version)
Opera - Pubblicato da Glossa il 5 feb 2021
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Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 24, 30, 42 & 43
Orfeo Orchestra, György Vashegyi
Classica - Pubblicato da Accent il 2 apr 2021
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Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6-8
Orfeo Orchestra, György Vashegyi
Classica - Pubblicato da Accent il 19 giu 2020
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Rameau: Naïs, RCT 49
Opera - Pubblicato da Glossa il 6 apr 2018
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Charpentier: Messe Des Morts / Psalmus Davidis / Salve Regina
Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra, György Vashegyi
Classica - Pubblicato da Hungaroton il 15 lug 2014
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Lemoyne: Phèdre
Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
Classica - Pubblicato da Bru Zane il 10 apr 2020
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Werner: Der Gute Hirt
Classica - Pubblicato da Accent il 2 ott 2020
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Monteverdi: Complete Operas
Orfeo Orchestra, Sergio Vartolo
Classica - Pubblicato da Brilliant Classics il 1 ott 2009
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