Print PageThe KlangVerwaltung Orchestra
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was founded in 1997 by the violinists Andreas Reiner and Josef Kröner. The orchestra’s aim was and still is the adequate realisation of the musically extraordinary conceptions of conductor Enoch zu Guttenberg.
While the main focus was initially aimed at the unusual name – which is supposed to illustrate the discretionary administration of music in a responsible way – it soon became clear that a new elite orchestra had taken the podium, which is not only familiar with the historical performance of the baroque and early classical repertoire.
The orchestra’s masterly interaction, extraordinary soloistic abilities, amazingly colourful sound possibilities, and an unusually dedicated habitus have earned them brilliant reviews as well as a great degree of popularity.
For each project, a constant base of musicians from leading symphonic orchestras such as the Berlin and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, the State Opera Houses of Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, and Hannover, the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, as well as different German radio symphonic orchestras, comes together in order to revise their meanwhile sizeable repertoire, but also to compile a new one. Their working method resembles a workshop in which the conductor and the musicians are equally involved in the musical work. This process guarantees for an entrancingly lively, dense, uncompromising, and yet, due to the ensemble’s quality, a homogeneous musical experience.
The Rheingaufestival, the Kissinger Sommer, the European Weeks Festival, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, their very own festival on Herrenchiemsee as well as performances in Munich and other European cities are significant and recurring stations.
In January / February 2006, the Orchestra went on their very first two week tour through England; in April 2007 they will give their fourth guest performance in Europe’s major music temple, the Vienna Musikverein, performing Bruckner’s Fourth, the “Romantic” symphony. Furthermore, they will perform Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at the renowned Santander Festival, and go on tour through the USA and through Germany performing Verdi’s Requiem. For 2008, the orchestra has once again been invited to England.
Since their debut CD featuring Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, recordings of symphonies by Beethoven, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and Mozart’s Requiem (all by FARAO classics), the orchestra has reached the highest standard even outside the concert halls. Thanks to Enoch zu Guttenberg’s TV appearances, the KlangVerwaltung Orchestra is also present on this platform.