Giedde Ensemble Recording

Help us make our dream true!

World premiere recording in September

The Danish Royal Library houses one of the most extensive collections of 18th century flute music worldwide: the Giedde Collection, named after its founder, the chamberlain of the Crown Prince Frederik and court musician Werner Hans Rosenkrantz Giedde (1756-1816). It contains around 1750 pieces of various genres by 170 different, partly only anonymously surviving works mainly by composers from the German and Italian speaking countries. In addition to "stars" such as Georg Philipp Telemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Jean-Marie Leclair, king Frederic the Great of Prussia and Giovanni Platti, there are also Giovanni Giuseppe Caroli, Ernst Eichner, Christian Ernst Graaf, Karl Wilhelm Glösch, alongside other lesser-known names - so far hardly noticed by early music performers.

The Giedde Ensemble

To tackle the qualitatively remarkable repertoire of this collection and to convey it to a broader public Antje Becker (Potsdam, Germany) and Ondřej Bernovský (Zwolle, the Netherlands) founded the Giedde Ensemble dedicated to the historical performance practice. After several months of research work, trying out many unknown pieces which survived in Copenhagen, the ensemble put together different programmes with music from the collection and made its début in summer 2018 in the Heilandskirche in Potsdam together with their colleague Kristen Huebner (flute, Utrecht, NL). Utrecht is also the place we all met during our (exchange) study period. The cellist Lucie Delville from Paris is completing the ensemble.

Why and what exactly?

As a first summary of the work we have done and to share this unknown repertoire of extraordinary quality with the world, we will record our first CD in this setting in 4 days in September 2019, with the wonderful help of the sound technician Benjamin Dreßler – a disc made of exclusively “world-premiere tracks” with music by

• the Berlin composer Wilhelm Glösch, employed at the Prussian court
• the brothers Friedrich Hartmann and Christian Ernst Graf from Germany who, travelling with various armies, found their new home in the Dutch city of The Hague
• the Danish flutist Morten Raehs
• Ernst Eichner, a composer who spent the last years of his life at the Prussian court in Potsdam

What is your support spent on

• the recording itself - sound technician and studio post-production, room rent
• travel costs for musicians
• artwork and graphic design for the CD package and booklet
• costs of making and delivering our rewards!
• If you have any questions about our campaign, you can contact Ondřej at [email protected]

Acknowledgements

Video credits: Katrin Becker and Oleg Belyaev.
Oleg Belyaev also plays the baroque cello in our video (instead of Lucie Delville.)

To listen to more music and read about our history, please visit Antje's website, section Giedde ensemble (link above, in German).

For more information about the core of the ensemble: due-oratori.com