Pratum Integrum Orchestra

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Pratum Integrum (from the Latin Pratum Integrum - mown meadow) is an orchestra playing Baroque and Classicist music on historic instruments. The artistic director is Pavel Serbin (cello) and the accompanist is Sergei Filchenko (violin). The Pratum Integrum Early Music Orchestra was founded in Moscow in 2003 with the support of Music Massam and immediately gained a reputation as an extremely unusual, bright and highly professional ensemble, loving hurricane paces and fresh interpretations. The core of the orchestra is made up of young Russian musicians, educated in Russia and abroad (France, Holland, Germany). The orchestra's founder and owner of the Caro Mitis label is Mikhail Serebryanny. Since the orchestra's foundation, its artistic director has been the cellist Pavel Serbin, and its concertmaster has been the violinist Sergey Filchenko. Pratum Integrum has already presented more than 200 works to the Russian public, including pieces by Russian composers recently found in archives from the court of emperors, French music listened to by Louis XIV and Louis XV, and Telemann overtures, so beloved in 18th century Germany. The exclusive domain of the Pratum Integrum orchestra is Russian music of the 18th century, the work of Russian and foreign composers who worked in Russia at that time. Pratum Integrum works with major European musicians, specialists in historical performance: Trevor Pinnock (UK), Sigiswald and Wieland Kuijken (Belgium), Alfredo Bernardini (Italy), Paul E

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# Why This Orchestra Merits Your Attention This ensemble offers a genuinely curious approach to Baroque and Classical repertoire through historically informed performance. What distinguishes them is their willingness to pursue interpretive boldness—what the founding materials describe as "hurricane paces and fresh interpretations"—without sacrificing technical precision. Led by cellist Pavel Serbin and violinist Sergei Filchenko, the orchestra draws from a generation of Russian musicians trained across multiple musical traditions, creating an unusual vantage point on European music. Rather than treating historical instruments as museum pieces, they use them to ask active questions about how these works might have sounded and felt. For listeners curious about early music beyond conventional reverence

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Maxim Berezovsky (1740s - 1777). Secular Music

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Telemann - Complete Orchestral Suites

Telemann in Minor

Telemann In Major

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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767). Complete Orchestral Suites, vol. 1

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L. Boccherini - Instrumental Music

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Dmitry Bortnyansky - The Italian Album

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D.Bortnyansky - The Russian Album

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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767). Complete Orchestral Suites, vol. 2

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767). Complete Orchestral Suites, vol.4

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G.Ph.Telemann. Telemann in Minor

Dmitry Bortnyansky - The Russian Album

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