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b. 1941 English conductor Hogwood began his career as a harpsichord player, and was a founding member of the Early Music Consort in 1967. In 1973 he founded a period instrument orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music, with which he recorded the complete Mozart symphonies and two Mozart operas. He was director of music of the St Paul ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

and Almirena are reunited amidst much joy and celebration, while Argante and Armida agree to convert to the Christian faith. Recommended Recording: Rinaldo, Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor; Decca 467 087–2OHO3; Soloists: L. Orgonasova (Armida), Cecilia Bartoli (Almirena), Bernarda Fink (Goffredo), David Daniels (Rinaldo), Gerald Finley (Argante) Personalities | George Frideric Handel | Late Baroque | ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

b. 1967 German countertenor Scholl studied at the Schola Cantorum in Basle. He has worked with many leading Baroque specialists, including William Christie, Philip Herreweghe, Christopher Hogwood and Ton Koopman, singing oratorios and cantatas by J. S. Bach and Handel. His recordings include Handel’s Messiah and Solomon, and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and B minor Mass. He ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

the 1970s and Mozart operas in the 1980s; since then he has broadened his repertory and often conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Christopher Hogwood | Contemporary | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

come to be called ‘authenticity’, they suggested the viability of Baroque opera. That viability was finally established in the 1970s and 80s, thanks to conductors such as Gardiner and Hogwood in Britain, and, in mainland Europe, Harnoncourt (notably in productions of Monteverdi staged in Zürich by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, 1932–88) and Arnold Östman (b. 1939) (at the ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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