Sigiswald Kuijken
Sigiswald Kuijken has been a pioneer in performing and teaching the Baroque violin technique. He and his brothers were all exposed to early instruments as children. Sigiswald and Wieland intuitively taught themselves how to play the viola da gamba.
Sigiswald was born on February 16, 1944, in Dilbbek, Belgium. He studied violin at the conservatory in Bruges, then in Brussels with Maurice Raskin, earning his degree in 1964. After doing his own research into Baroque performance practice, Kuijken began playing Baroque works on the violin without using a chinrest or shoulder rest and, in fact, not using his chin at all to hold the instrument. He began teaching this method, and others quickly adopted it. Kuijken taught Baroque violin at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague (1971-1996) and the Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium in Brussels (1993-2009). He is frequently invited to teach at the Royal College of Music in London, Salamanca University, and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, among other schools.
Kuijken performed with the Alarius Ensemble between 1964 and 1972, and then at the encouragement of the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi label and Gustav Leonhardt, founded his own orchestra, La Petite Bande, to perform Baroque and Classical works. He has traveled throughout Europe, North America, Australia, China, and Japan with La Petite Bande, and together they have recorded works by Lully, Pergolesi, Mozart, Haydn, Bach, and Geminiani. He also undertook more independent projects with others, such as his brothers Wieland and Barthold, Gustav Leonhardt, Robert Kohnen, Anner Bylsma, Frans Brüggen, and René Jacobs.
In 1986, he and his brother Wieland founded the Kuikjen String Quartet with François Fernandez, Marleen Thiers, and sometimes joined by violist Ryo Terakado, specifically to perform Classical period quartets and quintets. That same year, Kuijken conducted the inaugural concert in London of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. In the late 1990s, he began doing more conducting of modern orchestras in works of Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms. Along with his time spent performing with brothers Wieland and Barthold, Sigiswald has been performing in expanded family ensembles since 1998. He is often joined by daughters Veronica (piano), Sara (viola), and Marie (soprano). These ensembles include the Kuijken Piano Quartet, with Veronica, Sara, and Michel Boulanger (cello), and lieder performances with Marie.
Kuijken has had an extensive recording career, recording with labels such as Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Accent, Brilliant Classics, and Challenge Classics. Major projects have included the sonatas of Mozart, Mozart's and Debussy's chamber music with his brothers, and Bach's cantatas with La Petite Bande, recorded between 2006 and 2012. In 2019, Kuijken issued albums of Heinrich Schütz's Resurrection of Christ, on Accent, and Bach's Matthäus-Passion, on Challenge Classics.
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Artistas semelhantes
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Bach: Orchestersuiten 1066-69
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Harmonia Mundi em 29/12/1989
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Bach, J.S.: Violin Concertos BWV 1041-1043
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Harmonia Mundi em 30/10/1989
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Bach: Sonaten & Partiten (6)
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Harmonia Mundi em 02/01/1990
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Cantates (Intégrale, volume 13)
Yeree Suh, Petra Noskaiova, Christoph Genz, Jan van der Crabben, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
Choral Music (Choirs) - Lançado por Accent em 24/03/2011
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Bach: Brandenburg Concerti
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Harmonia Mundi em 12/12/1994
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Bach: Musical Offering
Chamber Music - Lançado por Deutsche Harmonia Mundi em 01/01/1975
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Cantates (Intégrale, volume 8)
Gerlinde Samann, Petra Noskaiova, Christoph Genz, Jan van der Crabben, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
Choral Music (Choirs) - Lançado por Accent em 01/01/2008
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Cantates (Intégrale, volume 6)
Siri Karoline Thornhill, Petra Noskaiova, Marcus Ullmann, Jan van der Crabben, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
Choral Music (Choirs) - Lançado por Accent em 01/01/2000
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Cantates (Intégrale, volume 11)
Gerlinde Samann, Petra Noskaiova, Christoph Genz, Jan van der Crabben, Petite Bande, La, Sigiswald Kuijken
Choral Music (Choirs) - Lançado por Accent em 27/07/2010
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Cantates (Intégrale, volume 12)
Gerlinde Samann, Petra Noskaiova, Christoph Genz, Jan van der Crabben, Petite Bande, La, Sigiswald Kuijken
Choral Music (Choirs) - Lançado por Accent em 09/01/2011
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BACH, J.S.: Mass in B minor (La Petite Bande, Kujiken) (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Sacred Vocal Music - Lançado por Urtext em 01/01/2003
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J.S. Bach: Cembaloconcerts, Vol. 1
Mario Sarrechia, Sara Kuijken, Bart Naessens, La Petite Bande, Mario Sarecchia, Sigiswald Kuijken
Chamber Music - Lançado por Accent em 16/09/2022
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Les Concertos brandebourgeois
Petite Bande, La, Sigiswald Kuijken
Classical - Lançado por Accent em 21/09/2010
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Vivaldi: Cantate Italiane / Bononcini: Cantate Pastorali
René Jacobs, Sigiswald Kuijken, Lucy Van Dael, Wieland Kuijken, Alan Curtis, Robert Kohnen
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 01/01/1992
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Mozart En Famille
Marie Kuijken, Sara Kuijken, Sigiswald Kuijken
Classical - Lançado por Challenge Classics em 03/06/2022
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Mozart: Flute Quartets
Barthold Kuijken, Sigiswald Kuijken, Lucy Van Dael, Wieland Kuijken
Chamber Music - Lançado por Accent em 01/01/1982
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Musikalische Exequien
La Petite Bande, Marie Kuijken, Daniel Schreiber, Sigiswald Kuijken, Stephan Scherpe
Classical - Lançado por Accent em 18/09/2015
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Bach, J.S.: Sonatas & Partitas BWV 1001 - 1006
Violin Solos - Lançado por Deutsche Harmonia Mundi em 23/03/2001
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Kantaten im Januar
Anna Gschwend, Lucia Napoli, Stephan Scherpe, Thomas E. Bauer, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
Chamber Music - Lançado por Accent em 15/01/2021
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Haydn: London Symphonies No. 103 + 104
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Deutsche Harmonia Mundi em 11/08/1997
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