SAVARIA  BAROQUE  ORCHESTRA

 

The Savaria Baroque Orchestra is founded by Pál Németh flutist-conductor  in Szombathely (a town in the West of Hungary, was called Savaria in Roman times). Its aim is to play 17th and 18th century music using the documents of the period. The basis of the ensemble is the strings, which are joined by other instruments as required. The string section plays on genuine 18th century instruments. The ensemble's repertoire consists mainly of works from the first half of the 18th century, but also includes music from the 17th century and the Viennese Classics. The perform works ranging from solo pieces to operas by Monteverdi to Mozart, for any number or combination of players. Alongside the main schools of this period (Italian, French, German and English works), they also include Hungarian works. In the latest CD-s you can hear works by  Boismortier, Galuppi, an intermezzo by Albinoni, church music, symphonies and notturni by M. Haydn, serenatas and cantatas by A. Scarlatti, an opera by Vivaldi, sacred music by Charpentier. They have broadcast on Hungarian Radio and Television, Radio France and on Radio Suisse, concert appearances include Austria, France, Germany, Suisse, Italy, Spain, Croatia and the United Kingdom.
The Savaria Baroque is the permanent orchestra of the Budapest Chamber Opera and the Savaria Chamber Opera. Thus it took part in several successful performances, e.g. stage works by Monteverdi, Orlando and Semele by Handel, Bastien and Bastienne, Mitridate by Mozart, La serva padrona by Pergolesi, Lo speziale by J.Haydn, Le Carnaval, Mascarade by Lully, Il Tigrane by Vivaldi, and Vesperae Bachanales by Roskovsky. Its concerts were of great success in the Austro-Hungarian Music Festival, Spring Festival in Budapest, Barock Festtage in Kassel -  Bad Arolsen, Magyar Magic in London as well as in Milan and Bilbao.
The goal of the orchestra is to re-discover and perform rarities from the 17-18th centuries in concerts, opera performances, CD-, radio, TV-, and film-recordings.