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Dorothee Oberlinger / Dmitry Sinkovsky / Ensemble 1700 DISCOVERY OF PASSION

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Dorothee Oberlinger / Vittorio Ghielmi THE PASSION OF MUSICK

England in the 17th century was a country marked by civil war, a war fought between Crown and Parliament, with Catholic royalists ranged against Puritan republicans. These were politically turbulent times and yet from a musical point of view it was an astonishingly fruitful period. In general the fine arts suffered badly at least in the public arena and above all in the 1650s, when the Stuart dynasty was overthrown by the austere regime of the self-styled Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. But this public neglect was more than made up for by the way in which chamber music flourished in the salons of well-to-do burghers and of members of the nobility. Writing in 1706, the English lawyer, biographer and music theorist Roger North noted that “many chose rather to fiddle at home, than to goe out, and be knockt on the head abroad”. The preferred instruments for this “private Musicke” were the harp, various types of recorder and, last but not least, the viol. From the Renaissance onwards, viols had been built in families from the bass to the soprano register, and they tended to be played as a group in the form of a “consort”. By the first half of the 16th century a consort of recorders is known to have existed at the court of Henry VIII. But in England there was also a great fondness for viols and especially for the typically English lyra viol, which, with its special tuning, was well suited to playing chords. As the writer on music Thomas Mace observed in 1676, with such an instrument “you have a Ready Entertainment for the Greatest Prince in the World”.

Dorothee Oberlinger / Ensemble 1700 TELEMANN Suite in A minor & Double Concertos

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Dorothee Oberlinger / Ensemble 1700 TELEMANN

Born in 1969 in Aachen, Dorothee Oberlinger studied recorder in Cologne, Amsterdam and Milan. After successfully making her debut in 1997 by winning the first Price in the international competition SRP / Moeck UK in London's Wigmore Hall, Dorothee Oberlinger has been a regular guest at major festivals and concert series throughout Europe, America and Asia.

As a soloist, she plays with the Ensemble 1700, founded by her in 2002, as well as with renowned baroque ensembles and orchestras such as the Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca, Musica Antiqua Cologne, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, London Baroque, the Academy of Ancient Music or Zefiro.

As "Instrumentalist of the Year 2008", she was awarded the prestigious German "Echo" music award award for her CD recording "Italian Sonatas", followed by an ECHO Klassik for her album "Flauto Veneziano" in 2013. In addition to her intensive involvement with the music of the 17th and 18th centuries, Dorothee Oberlinger is still devoted to contemporary music, thus contributing to the latest CD "Touch" of the Swiss pop duo 'Yello'. 

Since 2004, Dorothee Oberlinger is professor at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she is also heading the Institute for Early Music. Since 2009, she is the artistic director of the traditional Arolsen Baroque Festival.

Dorothee Oberlinger / Ensemble 1700 G.F. HANDEL Sonatas for the Recorder

For its authentic instrumental timbres, exquisite period interpretations, superbly engineered sound, and, above all, the sheer genius of the music, this album of Handel's recorder trios and sonatas is guaranteed to please connoisseurs of Baroque chamber music, and should catapult Dorothee Oberlinger and her handpicked Ensemble 1700 into international celebrity. A debut release for these exceptional musicians, this remarkable CD reveals both their scrupulous scholarship and enthusiastic participation, and the combination is winning. Oberlinger plays the recorder with a lucid but modest tone, never upstaging the other players but creating an impression of domestic intimacy that surely attended amateur performances in the eighteenth century. Yet these are not fragile or rarefied renditions, for Oberlinger and her companions are quite vigorous in the Allegro movements; the long, lyrical lines in the Larghettos and Adagios are always solidly supported through the soloist's unerring ornamentation; and the accompaniment is fully realized and strongly characterized, distributed throughout the works to a variety of basso continuo instruments. The illustrated booklet includes an informative essay on the recorder's history and Handel's music by Gerhard Braun, and the recording is absolutely clear in details and natural in reproduction. This disc is highly recommended. (Blair Sanderson)

Andreas Scholl / Dorothee Oberlinger / Ensemble 1700 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Small Gifts

When J. S. Bach dedicated his “Brandenburg Concertos” to the margrave Christian-Ludwig, he labelled them as “small talents” given to him by the heavens. Under the title “small gifts”, Andreas Scholl together with Dorothee Oberlinger and her Ensemble 1700 present a pure Bach programme with a selection of vocal and instrumental works which gives a lively impression of Bach’s musical rhetoric. 

The acclaimed recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger and her ensemble 1700 team up with famous countertenor Andreas Scholl for this inspiring new album featuring the work of J.S. Bach. The album includes arias from Bach cantatas for alto, a concerto for harpsichord arranged for flute, the cantata BWV 170 “Vergnügte Ruh” and the famed Brandenburg concertos No. 2 and No. 4. Dorothee Oberlinger is one of the most amazing discoveries of recent years, an expressive virtuoso who - quite rightly - received numerous awards while still very young. Today she is seen as one of the world’s greatest recorder-players, earning her unanimous acclaim for solo recitals at festivals all over Europe, in America and Japan, for example at the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, the Musikfestspiele Potsdam and the Settimane Musicale Stresa. Born in Germany, Andreas Scholl's early musical training was with the Kiedricher Chorbuben. He later studied under Richard Levitt and René Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. A Grammy nominated artist, he has won numerous awards and prizes including the prestigious ECHO Award for his composition The Emperor's New Clothes and The Nightingale released on Deutsche Grammphon.

Dorothee Oberlinger / Ensemble 1700 ROCOCO - MUSIQUE À SANSSOUCI

Dorothee Oberlinger is one of the most amazing discoveries of recent years, an expressive virtuoso who has received numerous awards. Today she is seen as one of the best recorder-players in the world. Her concerts have been received with enthusiasm by critics and audiences alike, earning her unanimous acclaim. Her CDs are regularly fêted as the best new issues on the market.
Dorothee Oberlinger has given solo recitals at festivals all over Europe, in America and Japan at some of the most prestigious venues such as the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, the Musikfestspiele Potsdam, the Settimane Musicale Stresa, the Nederlandse Oude-Musik-Network, the Festival de Musica Antigua Sajazarra, the Warsaw Beethoven Festival, the Europäische Musikfestwoche Passau, the Rheingau-Musikfestival, the Tage der Alten Musik Regensburg and the MDR-Musiksommer. Other venues in which she has played include the Wigmore Hall in London, the National Philharmonie in Warsaw, the Marianischer Saal in Lucerne, the Rosée Theater in Fuji and the Philharmonie in Cologne.
She has been the guest soloist with leading international Baroque ensembles such as London Baroque and Musica Antiqua Köln directed by Reinhard Goebel, and she also plays regularly with modern symphony orchestras such as the WDR-Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester and the Detmolder Kammerorchester.
Dorothee Oberlinger collaborates with the top Italian ensemble "Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca", with whom she has given many concerts throughout Europe. Their joint CD of concertos by Antonio Vivaldi has received numerous awards from the international musical press.
She directs her own "Ensemble 1700", which she formed in 2003. Together they have realized a wide variety of projects relating to the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2004 Dorothee Oberlinger was appointed professor at the renowned Mozarteum academy in Salzburg.