Artist Profile - Ton Koopman
Catherine Bott talks to Dutch organist, harpsichordist and conductor Ton Koopman. He formed his first baroque orchestra aged 25 and in 1979 founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
Catherine Bott talks to the Dutch organist, harpsichordist and conductor Ton Koopman about his career. As a young student Ton was fascinated by authentic instruments and his performance style has remained steeped in scholarship. He formed his first baroque orchestra aged 25, and in 1979 he founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and then the Amsterdam Baroque Choir in 1992. Catherine Bott talks to Ton about how he balances his career as a soloist and conductor, and his championing of Buxtehude's music. Repertoire in the programme includes Biber's 32-part Dixit Dominus, a movement from a Bach cantata and from Buxtehude's cantata Membra Jesu Nostri.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Fugue in G minor, BWV.578
Performer: Ton Koopman (organ)
- TELDEC.
- 4509-94458-2.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Dixit Dominus
Performers: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman (conductor)
- ERATO.
- 4509-91725-2.
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Antoine Forqueray
La Cotin (from 1st suite of 'Livre de Clavecin de Madame Forqueray')
Performer: Ton Koopman (harpsichord - made by Willem Kroesbergen 1978)
- ERATO.
- 2292 457512.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
H枚chster, schau in Gnade an (final chorus from Cantata BWV.63)
Performers: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman (conductor)
- ERATO 0630-14336-2.
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George Frideric Handel
4th movement (Allegro ma non troppo) from Organ concerto Op 4 no 2 in B flat major
Performers: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (conductor)
- ERATO.
- ECD 88136.
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Dieterich Buxtehude
Ad faciem (from Cantata 'Membra Jesu Nostri')
Performers: Barbara Schlick (soprano), Monika Frimmer (soprano), Michael Chance (alto), Christoph Pr茅gardien (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Hanover Boys Chorus, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (conductor)
- ERATO.
- 2292-45295-2.
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- Sat 16 Oct 2010 13:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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