Xenia Löffler
The Baroque oboist Xenia Löffler has been prominent among German historical-instrument players as a soloist, as principal oboist of the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, and as leader of her own Amphion Wind Octet. She is also an important educator.
Löffler was born in Erlangen, in the German state of Bavaria, in 1972. Her love of Baroque oboe began in 1990, when she played one of John Eliot Gardiner's Bach recordings on a new stereo she had just bought -- her first. She enrolled at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, a major center for the study of early music, and also studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in the Netherlands. In 1998, Löffler and some of her classmates from Basel formed the Amphion Wind Octet, who have recorded nine albums and appeared at various European festivals. A breakthrough came in 2000 when Löffler joined the touring version of Gardiner's English Baroque Soloists, performing on his Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, which featured renditions of Bach cantatas in places associated with their origins. The following year, she joined the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, one of Germany's top Baroque orchestras, rising to the position of principal oboist. She has performed as an oboe soloist with ensembles including the Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Prague's Collegium 1704, and the Händel-Festspielorchester in Halle. Löffler has taught since 2004 at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany, and often gives master classes in Germany and beyond.
Her recording career has focused on neglected repertory for the Baroque oboe, including a 2014 release on Accent that featured music by the brother pair of Johann Gottlieb Graun and Carl Heinrich Graun. She released an album of Bach oboe concertos on Accent in 2018, and the following year she was featured on a Harmonia Mundi release of Bach's music by violinist Isabelle Faust.
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Discography
14 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Mozart: Paris & Haffner Symphonies & Oboe Concerto
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Xenia Löffler, Bernhard Forck
Symphonies - Released by PentaTone on 6 Oct 2023
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Cantata : Yet Can I Hear... (Handel, Bach, Vivaldi...)
Bejun Mehta, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Christoph Huntgeburth, Xenia Löffler
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on 16 Mar 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
C.Ph.E. Bach : Oboe Concertos
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Xenia Löffler
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 3 Jan 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Richter: Sinfonias, Sonatas & Oboe Concerto
Capricornus Consort Basel, Xenia Löffler, Peter Barczi
Chamber Music - Released by Christophorus on 15 Sep 2017
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Concerto. Venice : The Golden Age
Xenia Löffler, Georg Kallweit and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 25 Aug 2014
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
The Oboe in Dresden (Vivaldi, Fasch, Telemann, Hasse, Platti...)
Chamber Music - Released by Accent on 18 Oct 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Oboe Concerto in F Major: I. Tempo comodo
Xenia Löffler, Batzdorfer Hofkapelle
Chamber Music - Released by Accent on 3 Feb 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Oboe Concertos & Cantatas
Xenia Löffler, Anna Prohaska, Collegium Vocale 1704, Collegium 1704, Václav Luks
Classical - Released by Accent on 21 Sep 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Johann Gottlieb & Carl Heinrich Graun : Oboe Concertos
Classical - Released by Accent on 7 Jan 2014
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Oboe Concertos at the Court of Thurn and Taxis
Xenia Löffler, Batzdorfer Hofkapelle
Classical - Released by Accent on 17 Mar 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Heinichen: Italian Cantatas & Concertos
Classical - Released by Accent on 29 Jan 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Handel: My Favourite Instrument – Concertos, Sonatas & Arias with Oboe
Classical - Released by Accent on 13 Jan 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Oboe in Berlin
Xenia Löffler, Michaela Hasselt, Daniel Deuter, Györgyi Farkas, Katharina Litschig, Michael Bosch
Chamber Music - Released by Accent on 1 Oct 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Reichenauer: Concertos. Music from 18th Century Prague
Sergio Azzolini, Xenia Löffler, Lenka Torgersen, Václav Luks, Collegium 1704
Classical - Released by SUPRAPHON a.s. on 22 Feb 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo