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Founded in 1999, the Bach Consort Vienna under the direction of Ruben Dubrovsky quickly developed into one of the most important baroque ensembles in Austria.
It has given concerts at numerous festivals and in concert halls such as the Wiener Musikverein, Theater an der Wien, Wiener Konzerthaus, OsterKlang, styriarte, Mozarteum Salzburg, Palais Esterhazy Eisenstadt, Brucknerhaus Linz, at the Baroque days Stift Melk, the Handel Festival Halle, the Festival Rhein Vokal, in Schwetzingen (D), Winterthur (CH), Ancona (I), Zagreb, at the baroque evenings Varaždin (HR), at Via Stellae / Santiago de Compostela, at the Palau de la Musica Valencia and Barcelona (E) and at the Estoril Festival ( P).
The Bach Consort Vienna has remained true to its chamber music origins to this day. Concert master Agnes Stradner unites the core members into diverse chamber music ensembles.
A milestone was the Austrian premiere of Porporas Polifemo in the Theater an der Wien. Numerous productions at the chamber opera followed, such as Handel's Orlando , Vinci / Handel's Semiramide , the first Viennese production on original instruments from Mozart's La clemenza di Tito , Gassmann's Gli Uccellatori, Salieris La scuola de΄gelosi, Porporas Arianna in Nasso, a pasticcio by Purcell to to Handel's Rinaldo followed by a guest appearance at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
There is a lively collaboration with soloists such as Emma Kirkby, Bernarda Fink, Christiane Karg, Franco Fagioli, Michael Schade, Andreas Scholl, Vivicagenaux, Florian Boesch, Terry Wey, Antonio Giovannini, Daniel Johannsen and Christophe Coin. Guest conductors were Alan Curtis, Stefan Gottfried, Attilio Cremonesi and Markello's Chryssikos.
After years of concert series in historical halls in Vienna (Palais Eschenbach, Hofburgkapelle), the ensemble can now be heard regularly with the highlights of baroque chamber music such as the Brandenburg concerts in the Brahms Hall of the Vienna Music Association. Often in dialogue with other art forms such as dance and literature, baroque richness of colors and joie de vivre can be seen in concert programs with Bach's organ trio sonatas to playful baroque improvisation art in dialogue with modern dance.
The Easter concerts of the Bach Consort Vienna have been broadcast by ORF, 3sat and many other TV stations worldwide since 2014. Live recordings of Monteverdi's Selva morale e spirituale (DVD, ORF) and Handel's Messiah (CD, Gramola / DVD, Naxos), Pace e Guerra with countertenor Terry Wey (CD-Sony / Harmonia Mundi) and Vidala - Argentina have been released and Roots of European Baroque (CD, Gramola) which was nominated twice for the German Record Critics' Award and in 2018 two live recordings with works by Antonio Vivaldi, interpreted by Vivicagenaux (CD, Sony) and Andreas Scholl (CD, Gramola).
