Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir is a Dutch ensemble based in Amsterdam, which specializes in historical performance practice.

The organist, harpsichordist and conductor Ton Koopman founded the group in two stages. The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra was created in 1979, the Amsterdam Baroque Choir in 1992. The ensemble has performed in the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), at the Barbican Centre (London), the Vienna Konzerthaus and at Lincoln Center in New York.

The first joint concert of the choir and orchestra in 1992 at the "Festival Oude Muziek " in Utrecht brought two works by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber premiered Requiem (15 voices ) and Vesperae (32 -note ).

Koopman led the ensemble in concerts and recordings of the entire vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach, the project began in 1994 and lasted ten years. Among the soloists were Franziska Gottwald, Ruth Holton, Lisa Larsson, Marlis Petersen, Sandrine Piau, Dorothea Rosch man, Sibylla Rubens, Barbara Schlick, Caroline Stam, Deborah York, Ruth Ziesak and Johan Zomer (soprano), Bogna Bartosz, Els Bongers, Michael chance, Bernhard Landauer, Elisabeth von Magnus, Annette Markert, Andreas Scholl, Nathalie Stutzmann and Kai Wessel ( alto), Paul Agnew, Jörg Dürmüller, James Gilchrist, Guy de Mey, Christoph Prégardien and Gerd Türk ( tenor ) and Klaus Mertens (bass ).

Began in 2005, the ensemble with the project " Dieterich Buxtehude - Opera Omnia ", a recording of the complete works of Dieterich Buxtehude.