Arco Baleno Ensemble

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Founded as a professional chamber music ensemble by students of Flemish conservatories in 1993, Arco Baleno's aim is to scan diverse musical works for common denominators or messages. Typically the group combine a standard repertoire with less known, often even brand new pieces. Using their experience as members of Patrick Peire's Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, the musicians devote themselves to stylistically faithful renderings of the baroque and classical chamber music repertoire for flute and strings. Three live CD's with flute quartets by W.A. Mozart, concertos by Vivaldi, and Haydn's London Symphonies met with enormous succes and were critically acclaimed in both foreign and domestic press. Several excerpts of the Vivaldi CD were broadcast on Belgium's classical radio station Klara as 'CD of the week'. The creation of new music is of great importance to Arco Baleno. A total of 23 works have so far been commissioned from Flemish composers. These pieces are rehearsed, first performed and often recorded on CD in close collaboration with their composers. The ensemble also pay a great deal of attention to young concertgoers. The coupling of Camille Saint-Saëns' 'Carnival of the Animals' with a brand new procession of Flemish animals was lauded around the country. Arco Baleno have nine CD recordings and several radio performances on their curriculum. They toured Germany, France, Slovenia, the United States of America and the Netherlands after winning the CHAIN-contest in En

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Camille Saint-Saëns, Carnaval des Animaux

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Rutter & Bridge & Blake & Jacob & Stephenson: Britannia

Antonio Vivaldi, String concertos, Flute concertos, Piccolo concer

Britannia: Music For Flute, Strings And Harpsichord By British Composers

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Antonio Vivaldi, String concertos, Flute concertos, Piccolo concerto

Camille Saint-Sa?ns, Carnaval des Anima

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Saint-Saëns: Carnaval Des Animaux

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Carnaval des Animaux

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Franz Joseph Haydn, Symphonies 101 The Clock, 99 & 104 London

Franz Joseph Haydn, Symphonies 101 The Clock, 99 & 104 Lond

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Vivaldi: Concerti for Strings, Flute and Piccolo

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Kaleidoscope II

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