Archiv Produktion

Archiv Produktion is a subsidiary label of Deutsche Grammophon founded in 1948.^[1]

The first head of Archiv Produktion, serving in the position from 1948 to 1957, was Fred Hamel, a musicologist who set out the early Archiv Produktion releases according to 12 research periods, from Gregorian Chant to Mannheim and Vienna.^[2] Hamel's successor 1958-1968 Hans Hickmann was a professor at the University of Hamburg who focused on Bach and Handel.^[3] The next director was Andreas Holschneider (b. 1931) from 1970-1991. In December 1991 Holschneider gave an interview to Gramophone where he defended the entry of Archiv Produktion and authentic instrument specialists such as John Eliot Gardiner into Romantic territory of Schumann and Berlioz.^[4] The label's next head was Peter Czornyj (b. 1956) from 1992.^[5]

In parallel the Decca Group also acquired in 1970 the rights the recording catalogue of the French-Australian music publishers Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre and began to issue early music recordings using the l'Oiseau-Lyre brand.

Artists and recordings

1940s

Archiv Produktion's first recording was of Helmut Walcha playing Bach, 1947, released 1948.

• Fine Krakamp Makes solo Harpsichord recordings in 1948 of Buxtehude & Krieger

1950s

• Ralph Kirkpatrick
• Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under August Wenzinger

1960s

• Cappella Coloniensis
• Berlin Hugo Distler Chor, Klaus Fischer-Dieskau
• Josef Ulsamer
• Colin Tilney, Jörg Demus, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
• Schola Cantorum "Francesco Coradini" - Fosco Corti

1970s

• Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg, Jürgen Jürgens
• Münchener Bach-Chor & Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter
• Pro Cantione Antiqua
• Charles Mackerras
• Camerata Bern, Heinz Holliger

1980s

• Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel
• The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock.
• Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner
• harpsichordist Kenneth Gilbert

1990s

• Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski - first recording for Archiv was Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie 1994.
• Orlando Consort
• Pomerium (ensemble)
• Piffaro, The Renaissance Band

2000s

• Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
• Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis

2010s

• Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon, Giuliano Carmignola
• Pablo Heras-Casado
• Mahan Esfahani

external Links

• Official Archiv Produktion Website
• History of the Archiv Label

References

Historically informed performance
Early music festivals	Boston Early Music Festival Festival Oude Muziek Flanders Festival Regensburg Tage Alter Musik
Instrument builders	Arnold Dolmetsch William Dowd Frank Hubbard Martin Skowroneck
Instrument collections	Bate Collection Brussels Musical Instrument Museum Metropolitan Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Musikinstrumente Vienna National Music Museum Smithsonian Institution Yale University Paris Conservatoire
Instrument collectors	American Musical Instrument Society Galpin Society
Primary instruments	Harpsichord Recorder Viol
Instruction	Amherst Early Music Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Societies	American Recorder Society Cambridge Society of Early Music Early Music America Lute Society Lute Society of America National Early Music Association Society of Recorder Players Viola da Gamba Society Viola da Gamba Society of America
Labels	Archiv Produktion Das Alte Werk Dorian Recordings EMI-Reflexe Harmonia Mundi L'Oiseau-Lyre Titanic Records
Shows	Harmonia Micrologus Millennium of Music Pied Piper
Other	Early music revival List of early music ensembles