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Sigiswald Kuijken

Sigiswald Kuijken founded the orchestra La Petite Bande in 1972. In this pioneering ensemble he introduced the use of period instruments, and concurrently the 17th- and 18th-century playing techniques that he and his brothers had acquired outside their conventional conservatory training. The first performances of La Petite Bande unleashed a veritable revolution. Ever since, Sigiswald Kuijken has been travelling around the world with his orchestra and has been realizing recordings at the cutting edge with music by Lully, Rameau, Händel, von Gluck, Haydn and Mozart. He was also guest conductor with several other orchestras, among them The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. For quite a few years already Sigiswald Kuijken integrates, on the basis of thorough research, important new insights into the interpretation of the (sacred) music of J.S.  Bach. This means that he refrained from using a choir, relying instead on a vocal quartet of soloists (sometimes expanded to eight singers, as Bach used to do), an equally slender instrumental cast and scrupulous attention to the right declamation of the text. The result is being recorded by the label Accent in a CD series in 17 instalments featuring the Bach cantatas. In 2007 Sigiswald Kuijken received an honorary doctorate of the Catholic University of Leuven. In 2009 he was awarded the prestigious Prize for General Cultural Merits of the Flemish Community.

Selective discography

	Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro / Don Giovanni / Cosi Fan Tutte (2022) classicism La Petite Bande, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sigiswald Kuijken		J.S. Bach - The Harpsichord Concertos, Original versions & adaptations vol.1 (2022) Baroque La Petite Bande, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sigiswald Kuijken, Mario Sarrechia
	Mozart en famille (2022) classicism Sigiswald Kuijken, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sara Kuijken, Marie Kuijken		Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (2021) classicism La Petite Bande, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sigiswald Kuijken
	J.S. Bach - Kantaten im Januar (2021) Baroque La Petite Bande, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sigiswald Kuijken		Heinrich Schütz - Resurrection of Christ (2019) Baroque La Petite Bande, Heinrich Schütz, Sigiswald Kuijken
	The Complete Lithurgical Year in 64 Cantatas (2017) Baroque La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken, Johann Sebastian Bach		L'Apocalypse (2016) Baroque Johann Sebastian Bach, Sigiswald Kuijken, Trondheim Barokk, Dietrich Buxtehude, Vox Nidrosiensis, Christian Geist
	Bach J.S. - Weihnachtsoratorium (2014) Baroque La Petite Bande, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sigiswald Kuijken		Bach Johann Sebastian - Cantatas 54, 134, 168 en 186 (2014) early music La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken, Johann Sebastian Bach, Siri Thornhill, Elisabeth Hermans, Yeree Suh, Petra Noskaiova, Christoph Genz (...)

Author of

	Sigiswald Kuijken - La gratitude		Musica Antiqua Revisited (2010) oude muziek Björn Schmelzer, Sigiswald Kuijken
	Op de Jakobsweg (2007) Sigiswald Kuijken, Marleen Thiers

Selectieve discografie als medewerker

	Heinrich Schütz - Resurrection of Christ (2019) Baroque La Petite Bande, Heinrich Schütz, Sigiswald Kuijken		van Beethoven Ludwig - Strijkkwartetten op. 59 en Strijkkwintet op. 29 (2011) classicism Kuijken Kwartet, Marleen Thiers
	A guide to period instruments (2010) early music, Baroque, romanticism Diverse uitvoerders		Bach Johann Sebastian - Das Musikalisches Opfer (2006) Baroque Kuijken Kwartet, Johann Sebastian Bach
	German Church Cantatas and Arias (1992) Baroque René Jacobs, Het Kuijken Consort, Het Parnassus Ensemble		German Church Cantatas and Arias (1979) Baroque René Jacobs, Het Kuijken Consort, Dietrich Buxtehude, Het Parnassus Ensemble, Johann Christian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann
	De Vlaamse Barok ten tijde van Rubens (1967) Baroque, early music Philippus Van Wichel, Alarius Ensemble, Vocaal kwartet van Brussel, Nicolaus a Kempis, Carolus Hacquart, Gaspar van Weerbeke, Pierre De la Rue, Antoine Brumel (...)

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