Pieter Hellendaal 6 Concerti Grossi

EUROPEAN COMMUNITY BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
GOODMAN, ROY - conductor/violin
MANZE, ANDREW - violin

Hellendaal

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Pieter Hellendaal is one of those curiously elusive figures from the past, whose life, spent industriously in a musical backwater, left little impression on history, but whose surviving music, although modest in quantity, is of surprising quality. This is the first complete recording of his osagnificant Six Grand Concertos op. 3 (t75g), undoubtedly one of the finest sets of concerti grossi published in England during the eighteenth century, though surely one of the most unjustly neglected today. The son of a Rotterdam candle-maker, Ftellendaal's prodigious talents as a violinist were recognised at an early age when the Secretary of Amsterdam, Mattheus Lestevenon, sent bins (aged barely sixteen) to study in Italy with the virtuoso violinist and composer Guiseppe Tartium. After his return to Amsterdam in the early 1740's he published some of the fruits of his studies: two engaging sets of six sonatas for violin and continuo. He continued his studies at the University of Leiden between 1749 and 1751, playing at the frequent gatherings of music-loving academics to earn his living. A free-lance life-style playing in Leiden and at The Hague suited him for a while, but with apparently little prospect of a permanent position in his native country he emigrated to 'Little Holland' across the ocean sometime late in 1751. London newspapers of the time provide conspicious evidence that Hellendaal successfully pursued his career as a violinist in the capital for eight years, appearing frequently as a soloist in such prestigious concert venues as Hickford's Rooms on Brewer Street, and, as on 13 February 1754, playing solos between the acts of Handel's Aci.s and Ga/ateo. Towards the end of 1759 he travelled to Oxford where the local paper recorded that on 5 November "Mr. Hellendaal from London will lead the Concert and play a Solo on the Violin"....

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Main artist	EUROPEAN COMMUNITY BAROQUE ORCHESTRA GOODMAN, ROY - conductor/violin MANZE, ANDREW - violin
Composer	Hellendaal
Inlay	P. Hellendaal Six Concerti Grossi Concerto no.I-VI
Biography	European Community Baroque Orchestra The European Community Baroque Orchestra was set up in 1985 as the major initiative of Eurpean Music Year to bring together Europe's most talented young Baroque musicians. The ECHO provides orchestral performing experience which is a vital link between conservatoire study and a fully professional career, and offers a unique opportunity for young players to work under the direction of the world's top Baroque specialists. The activities of the ECBO now follow an annual pattern, beginning with audition courses at which the members of the Orchestra are selected. The courses are run under the direction of a highly integrated team of specialists, which includes Roy Goodman, Jaap ter Linden, Lucy van Dael, Jan Schlapp, Enrico Gatti, Jos van Immerseel, Ku Ebbinge and Marc Vallon. For the successful musicians the next stage is a training course during which intensive rehearsals take place for the forthcoming concert tours and recordings. After this thorough preparation the Orchestra is then ready to embark on its touring schedule which has taken it to all the European Community countries, with performances in many of the major Festivals in Europe. The ECBO has developed a special rclationschip with directors Roy Goodman and Ton Koopman and has worked with most of the world's leading Baroque directors; Frans Bruggen, Trevor Pinnock, Christopher Hogwood, Jordi Savall, JeanClaude Malgoire, William Christie, Reinhard Goebel, Joshua Rificin and Andrew Parrott. Highlights have included Festival van Vlaanderen, Brugge; Algarve International Festival; Bachtage, Berlin; Haendel in Oxford Festival; Gulbenkian Early Music Festival, Lisbon; Festival Musica Antiqua Sevilla, Spain; Holland Early Music Festival, Utrecht. In addition the Orchestra undertakes each year an "ambassadorial" commitment with performances at EG Summits and EC Capitals of Culture, and tours of the USSR and East Germany, for example. Future tours are planned to the USA, Japan and Brazil.
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Quotes	(...) Roy Goodman is more relaxed with this period instruments group than Ive ever heard him (...) Classical CD, Spring 1993
Format	Normal PCM CD
Running time	73:15
Year of release	1992
Number of cd's	1