ALBUMHaydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ, Hob. XX:1Ton Koopman & Berner Symphonieorchester
ALBUMTon Koopman: Grandes Orgues 1710Ton Koopman
ALBUMLeopold Mozart & Wolfgang Amadeus MozartAmsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Ton Koopman
ALBUMScarlatti: 16 SonatasTon Koopman
ALBUMFitzwilliam Virginal BookTon Koopman
ALBUM'Tu Fedel? Tu Costante?' HWV 171a and Other Italian CantatasTon Koopman
ALBUMTon Koopman at the Zacharias Hildebrandt Organ (1726) In Lengefeld in the ErzgebirgeTon Koopman
ALBUMConstantin Emanuel Sings from Schemellis GesangbuchConstantin Emanuel & Ton Koopman
ALBUMOpera Omnia XX - Vocal Works 10Ton Koopman
ALBUMJewish Baroque Music from AmsterdamApollo Ensemble
ALBUMOpera Omnia XIX - Vocal Works 9Ton Koopman & Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
ALBUMC.P.E. Bach: 6 Organ SonatasTon Koopman
ALBUMOpera Omnia XVIII - Vocal Works Vol. 8Ton Koopman
ALBUMBuxtehude: Opera Omnia XVII - Vocal music, Vol. 7Ton Koopman & Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
ALBUMJ.S. Bach: Six Partitas for harpsichord (Clavier Übung I) BWV 825-830Ton Koopman
ALBUMJ.S. Bach: 6 Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin, BWV 1014-1019Catherine Manson & Ton Koopman
ALBUMOpera Omnia XV - Chamber Music, Vol. 3Ton Koopman, Catherine Manson, Mike Fentross & Paolo Pandolfo
ALBUMBuxtehude: Opera Omnia XIV - Vocal Works vol. 5Ton Koopman & Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
ALBUMBuxtehude: Opera Omnia XIII: Chamber music vol. 2Members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Ton Koopman
ALBUMOrgan ConcertosTon Koopman, Catherine Manson & Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
ALBUMOpera Omnia XII: Chamber music vol. 1Members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman, Jonathan Manson, Catherine Manson, Mike Fentross & David Rabinovich
ALBUMBach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232Ton Koopman & Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
ALBUMBach: Toccata & Fugue in D MinorTon Koopman
ALBUMHaydn: Complete Harpsichord Concertos, Divertimenti etc.Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Musica Antiqua Amsterdam & Ton Koopman
ALBUMPurcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629Michael Schopper, Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Catherine Bott & Jeffrey Thomas
ALBUMHandel: The Complete Sonatas for RecorderMarion Verbruggen, Ton Koopman & Jaap Ter Linden
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Ton Koopman Essentials
A Dutch musician brings transcendent fidelity to Baroque compositions.
About Ton Koopman
Artist Biography
Noted for his flamboyant ornamentation, fondness for lively tempi and cultivation of well-aerated musical textures, Ton Koopman is an instantly recognisable voice among followers of historically informed performance practice. Born in Zwolle in 1944, he numbered the influential harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt among his teachers, and in his mid-twenties founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra to complement a career as prize-winning organist and harpsichordist.
In 1992 he enlarged the orchestra’s scope by forming a choir and, although he once regarded Mozart’s Requiem (1791) as the furthest he wished to stray from the Baroque, as a conductor he has been lured towards Mendelsohn, Weber and even Schumann. J.S. Bach, however, remains at the centre of his musical universe. As something of a completist, he found that after recording all Bach’s surviving sacred and secular cantatas, not to mention the large-scale choral works, he turned to the Opera Omnia of Buxtehude, a project surveying the complete works of Bach’s great predecessor across 30 discs.
Although principally associated with period instruments, Koopman is never a musician to play it safe, increasingly finding himself in front of such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Chicago and Boston Symphony Orchestras and, closest to home, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
Hometown
Zwolle, The Netherlands
Genre
Classical
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