Gli Angeli Genève is a Baroque

Baroque music

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 ensemble based in Geneva, Switzerland

Geneva

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. Founded in 2003 by the bass-baritone

Bass-baritone

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, Stephan MacLeod, their debut performance was at the Festival Amadeus de Meinier. The ensemble performs an annual season of four concerts in Geneva, primarily dedicated to Bach

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's cantata

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s and records for Sony Classical. Their debut album, German Baroque Cantatas Vol. 1 was the Gramophone "Editor's Choice" for November 2008. Their performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion at the Victoria Hall in Geneva (1 March 2009) was broadcast by Radio Suisse Romande

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Recordings

• German Baroque Cantatas Vol. 1 – Gli Angeli Genève; Stephan Macleod (conductor). Sony Classical (2008)
• German Baroque Cantatas Vol. 2 – Gli Angeli Genève; Stephan Macleod (conductor). Sony Classical (2009)

Sources

• Freeman-Attwood, Jonathan, "Editor's Choice: German Baroque Cantatas Vol. 1", Gramophone, November 2008
• Lehnigk, Christiane, "Barock am Bass", Deutschlandradio
  Deutschlandradio
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  , 8 June 2008
• Pulver, Jonas, Stephen Macleod, Bach en voix intégrale, Le Temps
  Le Temps
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  , 28 November 2009
• Radio Suisse Romande, "Chant libre", 22 March 2009