Rachel Podger
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Rachel Podger conductor specialising in the performance of Baroque music.
Career
Podger was born in England to a British father and a German mother. She was educated at a German
Florilegium
, and worked with period instrument ensembles such as the New London Consort and London Baroque.
Podger often conducts
Musica Angelica
and Santa Fe Pro Musica (both in the United States) and as soloist with The Academy of Ancient Music.
Podger is a professor of
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and also teaches regularly at the Hochschule für Künste, Bremen. In September 2008, she took up the newly founded Micaela Comberti Chair for Baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London and then became professor of Baroque violin at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. In 2022, Podger was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[2]
When not touring with various orchestras and other classical players, Podger works with her partner in
Mid-Wales, helping young musicians through the Mozart Music Fund, which she founded in 2006, as well as holding workshops and giving recitals.[3]
In 2006 they founded the annual Brecon Baroque Festival which is held over the penultimate weekend of October every year.
Instruments
Podger plays a violin made in Genoa in 1739 by Pesarinius, a later student of Antonio Stradivari. She initially played a Stradivarius copy from 1988 by Rowland Ross, and has recorded Haydn and Mozart on the 1699 Crespi Stradivarius.[4]
Recordings
Podger records for Channel Classics Records and other labels.
- sonatas and partitas for violin solo, complete volumes 1 and 2 (top recommendation in BBC Radio 3 "Building a Library")
- Telemann's 12 fantasies for solo violin (1746)
- Bach's complete sonatas for violin and harpsichord, with Trevor Pinnock
- Purcell's sonatas in 3 parts, with Pavlo Beznosiuk and Christopher Hogwood
- Bach's solo and double violin concertos, with Andrew Manze and The Academy of Ancient Music (1997)[5]
- Vivaldi's 12 La Stravaganza concertos, directing Arte dei Suonatori (won Gramophone magazine's Best Baroque Recording of 2003) available on CD, SACD and Studio Master
- Mozart's complete sonatas for violin and fortepiano, with Gary Cooper, volumes 1–8
- Pieces de clavecin en concerts, with Trevor Pinnock and Jonathan Manson
- Haydnviolin concertos, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Pavlo Beznosiuk on viola (available on CD, SACD and Studio Master)
- Bach's solo violin concertos, with Brecon Baroque (2010)
- Biber’s 16 Rosary Sonatas, with Jonathan Manson, David Miller, and Marcin Świątkiewicz (2015)
- L'estro Armonico(Opus 3) concertos, directing Brecon Baroque (won Gramophone magazine's recording of the month for April 2015)
- Die Kunst Der Fuge, with Brecon Baroque (2017)
- Le quattro stagioni, complete with three other Vivaldi concerti: Il Riposo per Il S.S. Natale RV 270, Concerto L'Amoroso Rv 271, and Concerto Il Grosso Mogul Rv 208 (2018), which immediately received several high praise reviews.[6][7] It reached #1 in the UK classical album chart.
- An album entitled Tutta Sola (2022), containing works for solo violin written before Bach's Sonatas and Partitas, such as Giuseppe Tartini, Johann Joseph Vilsmayr, and Johann Paul von Westhoff, along with a transcription of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 for solo violin by Chad Kelly[8]
References
- ^ a b Joseph Stevenson. "Rachel Podger | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
- ^ Wales, The Learned Society of. "Rachel Podger". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ "Brecon Baroque Festival Community". Brecon Baroque Festival. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
- ^ Pritchard, Stephen (29 November 2009). "Rachel Podger & Pavlo Beznosiuk: Mozart Sinfonia Concertante KV364; Haydn Violin Concertos 1 & 4". the Guardian. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
- ^ Harmonia Mundi HMU 907155
- ^ "VIVALDI The Four Seasons (Podger)". Gramophone. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
- ^ "Podger's Delightful Four Seasons". Stereophile.com. 21 April 2018. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
- ^ "Rachel Podger on Tutta Sola". Presto Music. 22 November 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
Sources
- BBC Radio 3, Profile: Rachel Podger , The Early Music Show, broadcast 27 April 2008. Accessed 8 May 2009.
- James Reel, "Master of the Universe: In early music, violinist Rachel Podger found a second calling", Strings magazine, February 2005, No. 126. Accessed 2012-03-12.
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