Musica petropolitana

Musica Petropolitana is a Russian early music ensemble based in St. Petersburg . Created in 1990 on the basis of the ensemble Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg ". The ensemble specializes in authentic performance of European Baroque music , primarily music created in the 18th century at the Russian imperial court.

From the first steps, the ensemble gained international recognition by winning first prizes at international competitions in the UK (“Early Music Competition”, Manchester, 1990 ) and in the Netherlands ( van Wassenar competition , Amsterdam, 1993 ).

The ensemble regularly tours and participates in festivals in Germany, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Israel, Turkey, and the USA. His recordings were broadcast by the largest radio stations in Europe: BBC-3 (London), NDR-3 (Hamburg), WDR-3 (Cologne), Radio Copenhagen, Radio Amsterdam, Radio France, Radio Sweden. The ensemble’s discography contains works by Russian composers of the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ( Berezovsky , Kozlovsky , Handoshkin ), foreign composers who worked in Russia ( Vincenzo Manfredini , Baldassare Galuppi , Giuseppe Sarti , Domenico Cimarosa ), music by Johann Sebastian Bach , Arkangelo Vendelli and etc.

Musica Petropolitana constantly collaborates with such famous performers as Emma Kirkby , Olga Pasichnik , Michael Chance ^[1] . Musicians teach and conduct master classes in Russia, England, Germany.

According to famous music critic Mikhail Fichtenholtz,

the liveliness and courage inherent in Musica Petropolitana, surprisingly coexist with a certain detached theatricality: a musical piece is played at a certain distance from the listener, as if from a different era. Such a careful, almost museum attitude to ancient opuses is a true Petersburg phenomenon ^[2] .