Concerto Copenhagen
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Concerto Copenhagen is a Danish ensemble dedicated to Baroque and Classical music, whose repertoire has expanded to include Romantic and contemporary composers over the years. Founded in 1991, it specializes in early music performed on period instruments or copies, and refers to historically informed interpretation, based on available sources and composers' manuscripts. Under its first musical director, the Briton Andrew Manze (b. 1965), concertmaster of The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the ensemble recorded works by Johann Adolph Scheibe, Johan Agrell and Johann Adolf Hasse, before being replaced in 1999 by the Danish harpsichordist and teacher Lars Ulrik Mortensen (b. 1955), who pursued an ambitious policy by turning to the catalog of Johann Sebastian Bach. Under his direction, Concerto Copenhagen has recorded acclaimed performances of the Harpsichord Concertos (2002, 20005) and the Violin Concertos (2011), the Mass in B minor (2016) and the Brandenburg Concertos (2018). The conductor, who was awarded the Prix Léonnie-Sonning in 2007, has built Concerto Copenhagen into an internationally renowned ensemble, collaborating with such leading artists as Ronald Brautigam, Emma Kirkby, Andreas Scholl, Anne Sofie von Otter, Vivica Genaux, Reinhard Goebel, Jordi Savall and Alfredo Bernardini. In addition, Lars Ulrik Mortensen opens the ensemble's repertoire to Nordic composers such as Niels Wilhelm Gade(Elkönigs Tochter, 2018) and Karl Age Rasmussen, whose contemporary pieces are played on Alone & Together (2020), but also Johann Gottfried Wilhelm Paschau, Johan Ernest Hartmann, Georg Gerson, Bo Holten or Arvo Pârt, several emblematic pieces of whom appear on the album ...Lente (2025). In 2025, on the album New Brandeburg Concertos, the ensemble reinterpreted Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, based on arrangements by oboist Antoine Torunczyk of the six Sonatas for three-part organ (BWV 525-530).
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- Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048: I. Allegro by Concerto Copenhagen
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047: II. Andante by Concerto Copenhagen
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046: IV. Menuetto by Concerto Copenhagen
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046: I. Allegro by Concerto Copenhagen
- St John Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 2: Da führeten sie Jesum (Evangelist, Pilatus, Jesus) by Concerto Copenhagen
- St John Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 1: Petrus, der nicht denkt zurück by Concerto Copenhagen
- St John Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 1: Wer hat dich so geschlagen by Concerto Copenhagen
- St John Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 1: Derselbige Jünger war dem Hohenpriester bekannt (Evangelist, Magd, Petrus, Diener, Jesus) by Concerto Copenhagen
- St John Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 1: Ich folge dir gleichfalls mit freudigen Schritten (Sopran) by Concerto Copenhagen
- St John Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 1: Simon Petrus aber folgete Jesu nach (Evangelist) by Concerto Copenhagen
- St John Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 1: Von den Stricken meiner Sünden (Alt) by Concerto Copenhagen
- St John Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 1: Die Schar aber und der Oberhauptmann (Evangelist) by Concerto Copenhagen
- St John Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 1: Dein Will gescheh, Herr Gott, zugleich by Concerto Copenhagen
- St John Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 1: Auf dass das Wort erfüllet würde (Evangelist, Jesus) by Concerto Copenhagen
- St John Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 1: Herr, unser Herrscher by Concerto Copenhagen
