ALBUMHandel: AriasAvery Amereau, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Nicholas McGegan
ALBUMHandel: Joseph and His Brethren, HWV 59Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorale & Nicholas McGegan
ALBUMHandel: Atalanta, HWV 35Dominique Labelle, Susanne Ryden, Cécile van de Sant, Michael Slattery, Philip Cutlip, Corey McKern, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Nicholas McGegan
ALBUMA. Scarlatti: La gloria di primaveraDiana Moore, Suzana Ograjenšek, Clint Van Der Linde, Nicholas Phan, Douglas Williams, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Nicholas McGegan
ALBUMHandel: Teseo (Highlights)Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Dominique Labelle, Amanda Forsythe, Amy Freston, Drew Minter, Robin Blaze, Céline Ricci, Jeffrey Fields, Jonathan Smucker & Nicholas McGegan
ALBUMVivaldi for Diverse InstrumentsPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Nicholas McGegan
ALBUMArne: The Mask of AlfredNicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Philharmonia Chorale
ALBUMMozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 & 19Melvyn Tan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Nicholas McGegan
ALBUMPurcell: Dido and AeneasPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Lisa Saffer, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Michael Dean, PAUL ELIOTT & Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
ALBUMRameau: Orchestral Suites from Naïs and Le temple de la gloirePhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Nicholas McGegan
ALBUMHandel: Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Guy De Mey & U.C. Berkeley Chamber Chorus
ALBUMHandel: Arias for DurastantiLorraine Hunt Lieberson, Nicholas McGegan & Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
ALBUMHandel: Clori, Tirsi e Fileno & Apollo e DafnePhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Nicholas McGegan
ALBUMHandel: TheodoraPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson & U.C. Berkeley Chamber Chorus
ALBUMHandel: Arias for CuzzoniPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan & Lisa Saffer
ALBUMHandel: MessiahPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan & U.C. Berkeley Chamber Chorus
ALBUMHandel: Water Music (complete)Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Nicholas McGegan
ALBUMHaendel: Water MusicPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Nicholas McGegan
ALBUMVivaldi: Flute Concertos & Recorder ConcertosPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Marion Verbruggen & Janet See
ALBUMHandel: Opera Arias, Vol. 1: Arias for SenesinoDrew Minter, Nicholas McGegan & Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
About Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Artist Biography
San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra is one of the oldest and most renowned ensembles in the U.S. that specializes in historically oriented performance of music from earlier eras, using original instruments. Founded in 1981 by harpsichordist Laurette Goldberg, the orchestra has been led since 1985 by music director Nicholas McGegan. In the words of the group's mission statement, period instrument performance involves more than just using historically appropriate instruments; "it also means performing music with a passion, joy, and vitality that provide a meaningful contemporary artistic experience for today’s audience." The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra added an associated Philharmonia Baroque Chorale in 1996, and in 2016 established a New Music for Old Instruments initiative to commission new works for historical instruments. The orchestra plays a six-concert season at various locations in the San Francisco Bay Area. The group has also performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Tanglewood Music Festival as well as other major American venues, and it has toured the U.K. and Europe, with an appearance in 2005 at the BBC Proms and a collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles on the modern premiere of Rameau's opera-ballet Le Temple de la Gloire in 2017, released as a recording in 2018. The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's long recording career began in the 1980s, when they attracted the attention of the multinational historical-performance specialist label Harmonia Mundi. With flutist Janet See, they recorded an album of until-then largely underexposed Vivaldi flute concertos in 1988. As the group's repertory has developed, it has come to include Romantic music in addition to Baroque and Classical works, and when the orchestra formed its own label, one of its first releases was a recording of Berlioz's Les nuits d'été in 2011, taken from earlier live recordings with the late mezzo soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. A performance of Brahms serenades followed in 2012. Top European conductors who have appeared as guests with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra have included Jordi Savall, Gustav Leonhardt, Andrew Parrott, Richard Egarr, and the American-French opera conductor William Christie. ~ James Manheim
Hometown
San Francisco, CA, United States
Genre
Classical
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