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BIOGRAPHY
The KlangVerwaltung was founded in 1997 by violinists Andreas Reiner and Josef Kröner. The orchestra’s aim was and still is the adequate realisation of the musically extraordinary conceptions of conductor Enoch zu Guttenberg.
While the main focus was initially aimed at the unusual name – which is supposed to illustrate the discretionary administration of music in a responsible way – it soon became clear that a new elite orchestra had taken the podium, which is not only familiar with the historical performance of the baroque and early classical repertoire.
The orchestra’s masterly interaction, extraordinary soloist abilities, amazingly colourful sound possibilities, and an unusually dedicated habitus have earned them brilliant reviews as well as a great degree of popularity.
For each project, a constant base of musicians comes together in order to revise their meanwhile sizeable repertoire, but also to compile a new one. Their working method resembles a workshop, which allows for both the conductor and the musicians to be equally involved in the musical work. This process guarantees for an entrancingly lively, dense, uncompromising, and yet, due to the ensemble’s quality, homogeneous musical experience.
The members of the KlangVerwaltung are musicians from leading symphonic and opera orchestras (such as the Vienna, Berlin, and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras), but also internationally renowned soloists and chamber musicians. The most exceptional sound experience is rounded off by instruments by Stradivari, Guarneri, Bergonzi, Guadagnini, Gofriller, and other famous masters.
In addition to their performances in Munich, they play at significant venues such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Dortmund Konzerthaus, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Rheingau Festival, the Kissinger Sommer, the European Weeks Festival, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, and at the Festival on Herrenchiemsee, where the KlangVerwaltung Orchestra performs every year.
In January/February 2006, the Orchestra went on their very first two week tour through England; in 2007, they had their first appearance in the USA; in April 2007, they gave their fifth guest performance in Europe’s major music temple, the Vienna Musikverein; in 2008 they toured through England once more. In 2009, they had their debut performance in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. The orchestra’s journey through Asia in October 2009 was a major success.
Since their formation in 1997, the KlangVerwaltung has been recording CDs for FARAO classics, which have been highly praised by international reviews. Bruckner’s 4th
Symphony was recorded live in the "Goldener Saal" at the Vienna Musikverein and received the most significant German music award, the ECHO Klassik. |
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