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Historically informed performance practice on modern instruments — that was the founding idea when, in 1995, members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and leading figures from the early music world came together to form the Berliner Barock Solisten. It was an innovative venture: as violinist Raimar Orlovsky recalls, at the time “early music was not cultivated in our orchestra at all”. Yet the Berliner Philharmoniker had in Rainer Kussmaul a Concertmaster whose enthusiasm for Baroque music proved infectious among his colleagues.
The ensemble’s members made a conscious decision to interpret the repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries on modern instruments — an approach through which they developed a distinctive sound culture that has since become their hallmark.
Following Rainer Kussmaul’s retirement in 2012, the Berliner Barock Solisten placed artistic direction in a variety of hands, including those of Bernhard Forck, Daniel Hope and Frank Peter Zimmermann. Since 2018, the ensemble has been led by Reinhard Goebel.
Musicians
Zoltán Almási
Sebastian Heesch
Kotowa Machida
Anna Mehlin
Raimar Orlovsky
Christoph Streuli
Julia Gartemann
Walter Küssner
Dorian Xhoxhi
Raphael Alpermann
Kristin von der Goltz
Artistic director: Reinhard Goebel
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