Gli Angeli Genève is a
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
ensemble based in
Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 2005 by the
bass-baritone
A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing thr ...
,
Stephan MacLeod, their debut performance was at the Festival Amadeus de Meinier. The ensemble performs an annual season of four concerts in Geneva, primarily dedicated to
Bach's cantatas and records for
Sony Classical. Their debut album, ''German Baroque Cantatas'' Vol. 1 was the ''
Gramophone
A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...
'' "Editor's Choice" for November 2008. Their performance of Bach's ''
St. Matthew Passion
The ''St Matthew Passion'' (german: Matthäus-Passion, links=-no), BWV 244, is a '' Passion'', a sacred oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander. It sets ...
'' at the Victoria Hall in Geneva (1 March 2009) was broadcast by
Radio Suisse Romande.
[Radio Suisse Romande (22 March 2009)]
Recordings
*''German Baroque Cantatas'' Vol. 1 – Gli Angeli Genève; Stephan Macleod (conductor).
Sony Classical (2008)
*''German Baroque Cantatas'' Vol. 2 – Gli Angeli Genève; Stephan Macleod (conductor). Sony Classical (2009)
Notes and references
Sources
*Freeman-Attwood, Jonathan
"Editor's Choice: German Baroque Cantatas Vol. 1" ''
Gramophone
A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...
'', November 2008
*Lehnigk, Christiane
"Barock am Bass" Deutschlandradio
Deutschlandradio (DLR) (''Radio Germany'') is a national German public radio broadcaster.
History
''Deutschlandfunk'' was originally a West German news radio targeting listeners within West Germany as well as in neighbouring countries, ''Deutsc ...
, 8 June 2008
*Pulver, Jonas
Stephen Macleod, Bach en voix intégrale ''
Le Temps
''Le Temps'' (literally "The Time") is a Swiss French-language daily newspaper published in Berliner format in Geneva by Le Temps SA. It is the sole nationwide French-language non-specialised daily newspaper of Switzerland. Since 2021, it has b ...
'', 28 November 2009
*Radio Suisse Romande
"Chant libre" 22 March 2009
External links
Official website
Musical groups established in 2003
Swiss performers of early music
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