Famd.Pl Orchestra - Vitae Pomeranorum: Lost World of Pomeranian 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Famd. Pl Orchestra The Orchestra was established in 2009 under the auspices of the Academy of Early Music Foundation from Szczecin. The main objective of the Foundation is to promote the trend of historically informed performance. The group is one of very few in Europe which uses period instruments from the turn of the 19th century, pitched in a - 430 Hz. The Orchestra is made up of outstanding instrumentalists who play period instruments and work full-time as soloists, chamber musicians and teachers at renowned national and foreign music institutions. The leader of the Orchestra is Grzegorz Lalek, a prominent violin virtuoso, whose music activity combines solo, chamber and orchestral performances. The founder and artistic director of the Orchestra is Pawel Osuchowski. The direction towards which the Orchestra is meant to be heading assumes cooperation with artists from the Baltic Sea region revolving around the concerts and festivals organized by the Foundation On the Gothic Track - Music in the West Pomeranian monuments and the Szczecin Early Music Festival. The Orchestra plays regularly in the regions along the Polish-German border, where it gives numerous concerts and festivals, such as the Concerts of Nations, Kloster Sinna Sommermusiken, Kultursommer in Dominikanerklosert Prenzlau, Uckermärkische Musikwochen. In 2010 the Orchestra was the only Polish group, conducted by a Pole, to perform Frédéric Chopin's music according to the historic scores of prof. Jan Ekier, with Kevin Kenner playing the piano built by Pleyel in 1847. Since 2010 the Orchestra has been running a concert project called Beethoven non plus ultra featuring the performance of all the works by the master from Bonn. In 2012-13 the group took part in the programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage - The Promotion of Polish Culture abroad and toured Ukraine with The Royal Concert