B'Rock Orchestra
The Baroque orchestra B'Rock offers concerts and recordings of Baroque music, both mainstream works and lesser-known repertory. The group also has a growing record of performing contemporary music and of collaborating with theatrical, operatic, choreographic, visual, and video artists.
B'Rock, also known as the B'Rock Orchestra (and pronounced BEE-rock), was established in the Belgian city of Ghent in 2005. The founders were harpsichordist Frank Agsteribbe, double bassist Tom Devaere, and managers Hendrik Storme and Tomas Bisschop. The intent of the group was to bring greater immediacy to early music, to offer, in the words of the group's website, "theatrical expression in sound." B'Rock gave its first concert in September 2005 at the De Bijloke hall in Ghent and succeeded from the beginning. The group has no permanent conductor but features guest conductors where necessary, as well as a varied roster of guest soloists and choirs in its roughly 45 concerts annually. B'Rock began to develop cross-genre collaborations early in its existence, and several of these, including one with the Royal Opera De Munt/La Monnaie in Brussels and one with the Rouen Opera in France, have evolved into ongoing partnerships. The group's own concerts often feature themes (such as, in 2020, "Life and Death") rather than simply listings of pieces, and often new music written for the medium of a historical-instrument chamber orchestra. B'Rock has appeared in major concert venues, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the BBC Proms, and the Park Avenue Armory in New York.
B'Rock made its recording debut in 2011 on the EtCetera label with the album Antonio Vivaldi, John Cage: 8 Seasons. The group released several more albums on EtCetera and moved to PentaTone in 2018, issuing the first in a complete cycle of the symphonies of Schubert. The second volume in that series, including the Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, D. 125, and Symphony No. 3 in D major, D. 200, appeared in 2020.
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Discography
11 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Handel: Water & Fire
B'Rock Orchestra, Dmitry Sinkovsky
Symphonies - Released by PENTATONE on 14 Jul 2023
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Unfinished and Great Symphony
B'Rock Orchestra, René Jacobs, Tobias Moretti
Symphonies - Released by PENTATONE on 8 Dec 2022
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on 30 Oct 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on 18 Sep 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Steelant: Antwerp requiem ca. 1650
cantoLX, B'Rock Orchestra, Frank Agsterribe
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on 10 Jul 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Symphonies 4 & 5
Symphonies - Released by PENTATONE on 27 Aug 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Händel: Concerti Grossi / Ouvertures
Classical - Released by Etcetera on 1 Sep 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Wege zur Musik: Der Messias
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, B'Rock Orchestra, Peter Dijkstra, Unknown Artist
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BR-Klassik on 2 Nov 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Symphonies 2 & 3
Symphonies - Released by PENTATONE on 18 Sep 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Symphonies 1 & 6
Symphonies - Released by PENTATONE on 30 Oct 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Steelant: Antwerp Requiem ca. 1650
B'Rock Orchestra, cantoLX, Frank Agsterribbe
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by PENTATONE on 10 Jul 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo