Crusell Och Coppola I Mästarmöte by Haydn, Crusell, Från (2023/2023), Dirigent Lorenzo Coppola, Stockholm Concert House, Stockholm, Sverige

Since the ensemble was founded in 2015, Orfeus Barock has developed into an inalienable part of the capital's music offering as well as a meeting place for the philharmonic as well as some of Sweden's leading freelance baroque musicians. A symphony by Haydn concludes this program, but the emphasis is on music by Finnish-Swedish Bernhard Crusell, born in Nystad in Finland in 1775 and died in Stockholm in 1838. Crusell was himself a clarinetist, and it is precisely the clarinet networks with which he is most associated - such as the clarinet concertos and the clarinet quartets. Here the third clarinet concerto and the first clarinet quartet are performed by none other than the Italian Lorenzo Coppola – one of Europe's authorities in early music. He has appeared with the vast majority of prominent ensembles in older repertoire, among them Les Arts Florissants, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Freiburger Barockorchester. Coppola has also been a guest of Orfeus Barock before, at a concert in 2021 which is also at Konserthuset Play. The critically acclaimed ensemble Orfeus Barock regularly collaborates with prominent guests from the international baroque music scene. The artistic directors are the Royal Philharmonic's solo cellist Johannes Rostamo and the concertmaster and baroque violinist Elin Gabrielsson, a member of, among others, the Italian Europa Galante.