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Boston Baroque is the oldest continuing period instrument orchestra in North America. It was founded in 1973 by the American harpsichordist and conductor, Martin Pearlman, to present concerts of the Baroque and Classical repertoire on period instruments, drawing on the insights of the historical performance movement. The Boston Baroque professional chamber chorus was established as an integral part of the ensemble in 1981. With Pearlman as its music director, the ensemble presents an annual subscription concert series in Greater Boston, Massachusetts; has performed on tour in Carnegie Hall, Chicago's Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles's Disney Hall, at the Ravinia and Tanglewood festivals, and has toured internationally. The orchestra, originally named "Banchetto Musicale", was renamed Boston Baroque in 1992, when Telarc Records, in its first commitment to a period-instrument orchestra, signed the ensemble to produce a series of recordings of major Baroque and Classical repertoire for international commercial distribution. As of 2007, there are 18 recordings in the series, three of which have received Grammy nominations. Boston Baroque is the resident professional ensemble for Boston University's Historical Performance Program, where it is helping to train the next generation of period-instrument performers. ==Notable performances== *Boston's period-instrument premiere of Handel's ''Messiah'' in 1981. *American premiere of the opera ''Zoroastre'' by Jean-Philippe Rameau in 1983. *Boston's first period-instrument performances of the complete concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach in 1984-1985 to mark Bach's Tercentenary. *American period-instrument premiere of Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'', broadcast nationally on public radio in 1986. *American period-instrument premieres of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and Violin Concerto in 1987-88 *Boston's period-instrument premiere of Joseph Haydn’s ''The Creation'' in 1989. *Modern world premiere of ''Der Stein der Weisen'' (''The Philosopher's Stone'') in 1998, a Singspiel collaboratively written by members of Mozart's circle--with the likely participation of Mozart himself--which shed's new light on the composition of ''The Magic Flute'' one year later. *Boston's first complete cycle of the three surviving Monteverdi operas (semi-staged in 2001-2003) with new performing versions of ''L'incoronazione di Poppea'' and ''Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria'' written by Martin Pearlman. *Boston Baroque's European debut, performing Handel's Messiah in Kraków and Warsaw, Poland in 2003. *Boston Baroque's tour of the Monteverdi ''Vespers of 1610'' to Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the summer music festivals at Ravinia and Tanglewood in 2004 *First professional Boston performances of Luigi Cherubini's ''Requiem in C minor'' in 2005, a neglected work highly praised by leading composers of the day and favorably compared with Mozart's Requiem. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boston Baroque」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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