AboutOfficial Site: http://www.hogwood.org/Christopher Hogwood is one of the greatest proponents of the early music movement, as well as a renowned conductor of twentieth-century works. This season he becomes lifetime Emeritus Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, the orchestra he founded in 1973, and begins a series of Handel operas in concert with the rarely performed Amadigi. In addition, he is Conductor Laureate of Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society and continues his close association with the Kammerorchester Basel. In demand by many of the world’s leading orchestras, this year he returns to the Tonhalle Zurich, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and Athens Camerata, orchestras with whom he is a regular guest. In addition he also appears with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Bremen Philharmonic and Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Hogwood has appeared in many of the world’s leading opera houses including Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris, London’s Royal Opera House, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sydney’s Opera House, and most recently La Scala, Milan (Dido and Aeneas) this summer. Future plans include his first visit to Leipzig Opera. Hogwood began his career as a keyboard player over forty years ago and has been a major force in the revolution that has forever changed the way music is performed, recorded and heard. Based on the principle of discovering and, as far as possible, recreating the composer’s intentions, both in notation and performance, his approach begins with musicology — going back to the original sources, correcting published errors, tracking changes in subsequent editions. Only then does he apply his deep knowledge of performance practice to the rehearsal room, concert hall and recording studio. His repertoire ranges from mediaeval to contemporary music, yet he is particularly associated with the music of Haydn and Handel, and in twentieth-century music has an affinity for the neo-baroque and neo-classical schools including works by Stravinsky, Martinu and the Entartete composers. He is especially interested in Czech music and was awarded the Martinu Medal in 1999. With symphony and chamber orchestras he creates intriguing juxtapositions of the new and the old (Mozart and Schnittke, Webern and Bach, Haydn and Martinu) and has directed many premieres of works by European and American composers. He has also encouraged the AAM to commission contemporary works by composers such as Tavener, Woolrich and Musgrave. An important contributor to numerous publishers and particularly Baerenreiter, Hogwood’s current editorial projects range from sixteenth century Italian music to the last orchestral work by Stravinsky. Of particular note is the publication of the many alternative versions of the great overtures and symphonies by Mendelssohn, revealing new insight into his working methods; major keyboard collections such as the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book and complete keyboard works of Purcell; plus special arrangements by contemporaries of composers such as Mozart and Haydn. He has just completed a new edition of Elgar’s Enigma Variations. In addition, he chairs the board of the CPE Bach Complete Works Edition and is also on the board of the Martinu Complete Edition. Hogwood has a celebrated catalogue of more than 200 recordings with AAM for Decca, including the first complete Mozart symphonies on period instruments. Many of these acclaimed recordings are now being reissued. The neo-classical is also well represented by a series of recordings on Sony/BMG’s Arte Nova label, featuring composers such as Martinu, Stravinsky, Britten, Copland, Tippett and Honegger. Other recent projects include the symphonies and overtures of Niels Gade (Chandos), the Secret Series for clavichord — Secret Mozart (Sony), Secret Handel and Secret Bach (Metronome) — and Martinu’s complete works for violin and orchestra with Bohuslav Matousek as soloist. Future plans feature Prokofiev, Martinu, Copland, Haydn and Mozart and Beethoven on clavichord. Hogwood’s many publications include a survey of patronage through the ages (Music at Court), biographical studies of Haydn, Mozart and Handel (Thames and Hudson), a history of the trio sonata (BBC Publications), and investigations of British music. His new book on Handel’s Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks was recently published by Cambridge University Press (CUP). His written work has been translated into six languages. Hogwood is Honorary Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge; he holds Fellowships at Jesus and Pembroke Colleges, Cambridge; and is Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music. |
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