Bach Consort Wien

Founded in 1999, the Bach Consort Vienna quickly developed into one of the most important baroque ensembles in Austria under the direction of Ruben Dubrovsky.

It has given concerts at numerous festivals and in concert halls such as the Wiener Musikverein, Theater an der Wien, Wiener Konzerthaus, OsterKlang, styriarte, Mozarteum Salzburg, Esterhazy Castle Eisenstadt, Brucknerhaus Linz, at the Baroque Days Melk Abbey, the Handel Festival in Halle, the Rhein Vokal Festival, in Schwetzingen (D), Winterthur (CH), Ancona (I), Zagreb, at the Baroque Evenings Varaždin (HR), at Via Stellae / Santiago de Compostela, at the Palau de la Musica Valencia and Barcelona (E) and at the Estoril Festival ( P).

The Bach Consort Vienna has remained true to its chamber music origins to this day. Concertmaster Agnes Stradner unites the core members in a variety of chamber music ensembles.

A milestone was the Austrian premiere of Porporas Polifemo in the Theater an der Wien. This was followed by numerous productions at the chamber opera such as Handel's Orlando, Vinci / Handel's Semiramide, the first Viennese production on original instruments of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, Gassmann's Gli Uccellatori, Salieri's La scuola de΄gelosi, Porporas Arianna in Nasso, a pasticcio from Purcell to on Handel's Rinaldo with a subsequent guest performance at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.

There is a lively collaboration with soloists such as Emma Kirkby, Bernarda Fink, Christiane Karg, Franco Fagioli, Michael Schade, Andreas Scholl, Vivicagenaux, Florian Boesch, Terry Wey, Antonio Giovannini, Daniel Johannsen and Christophe Coin. Guest conductors were Alan Curtis, Stefan Gottfried, Attilio Cremonesi and Markellos Chryssikos.

After years of concerts in historical halls of Vienna (Palais Eschenbach, Hofburgkapelle), the ensemble can now be heard regularly with the highlights of baroque chamber music such as the Brandenburg Concerts in the Brahms Hall of the Wiener Musikverein. Often in dialogue with other art movements such as dance and literature, baroque colors and joie de vivre are shown in concert programs with Bach's organ trio sonatas, right through to playful baroque improvisation in dialogue with modern dance.

The Easter concerts of the Bach Consort Vienna have been broadcast worldwide by ORF, 3sat and many other TV stations since 2014. Live recordings of Monteverdi's Selva morale e spirituale (DVD, ORF) and Handel's Messiah (CD, Gramola / DVD, Naxos), as well as Pace e Guerra with the countertenor Terry Wey (CD-Sony / Harmonia Mundi) and Vidala - Argentina have been released and Roots of European Baroque (CD, Gramola) which was nominated twice for the German Record Critics' Prize and in 2018 two live recordings with works by Antonio Vivaldi, interpreted by Vivicagenaux (CD, Sony) and Andreas Scholl (CD, Gramola).