PIPE List -- "F" Ensembles

"F" Ensembles

Fairy Consort

Director : Luca Dragani (recorders, gamba, dulcimer, crumhorns)
Year ensemble formed : 1982
Description : A mixed vocal and instrumental ensemble (size ranging between 5-9 performers) employing original instruments, four voices (SATB, recorders, fiddle, lute, gamba, etc.) performing Medieval and Renaissance music.
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - c/o Luca Dragani
    via A. Herio
    10166100 Chieti
    ITALY
- Telephone : 39-871-41447
- FAX : 39-871-41447
- E-mail : lucadr1@interfree.it (c/o Luca Dragani)
Home city/country : Chieti, Italy
Members :
- Current :
  - Paola Incani (soprano)
  - Luca Dragani (recorders, gamba, woodwinds)
  - Roberto Torto (recorders)
  - Marco Giacintucci (fiddle, rebec, baroque violin, viols)
  - Antonella Angelozzi (harp)
  - Mariusz Szymanski (baryton, recorders)
- Past :
  - Roberto Angelucci (recorders, fiddle)
  - Claudia Chiavaroli (alto)
  - Piero Cartosio (recorders and renaissance flute)
  - Paolo Novelli (tenor, percussions, keyboards)
  - Daniele Valentini (bass, percussions)

Falsobordone

Director : Erik Ask-Upmark
Year ensemble formed : 1995
Description : Medieval music, predominantly with Spanish, French and Italian origins.
WWW : http://www.falsobordone.com
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - c/o Kulturkometen HB
    Öslöv 45
    SE-241 92 Eslöv
    SWEDEN
- Telephone : +46 (0)413-54 10 20
- E-mail : info@falsobordone.com
Home city/country : Sweden
Members :
- Erik Ask-Upmark (Medieval bagpipes, portative organ, harp, voice)
- Anna Rynefors (rebec, bagpipes, percussion, voice)
Discography :
- Cantigas de Santa Maria (Acantha Records, ACACD 0042)
- "In Medias Res" - Drone music of the 16th century
- "Figs, fiddles and fine play - a musical taste of the 14th century" (Kulturkometen Records, ACACD 0043)

Famuli Musicae

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : A baroque band.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Helsinki, Finland
Members:
- Annika Sjölund (soprano)
- Pauli Löija (countertenor)
- Hanna Haapamäki (recorder)
- Pauliina Fred (recorder)
- Jussi Seppänen (violoncello)
- Katrin Meriloo (harpsichord, organ)

Fanfare Consort

Artistic Director : Thomas Freas (clarino)
Year ensemble formed : 1997 -- by Freas
Description : Period instrument ensemble dedicated to the research, publication, performance and recording of literature composed prior to the 19th century. The ensemble preserves this rich and unheard Baroque music by performing modern-day premieres of works that have not been heard since the time of the composers. All concerts are presented on historically accurate instruments: clarino (valveless baroque trumpet), baroque strings (gut strings), baroque woodwinds (keyless and wooden), basso continuo (chitarrone [fretted bass lute] and/or baroque contrabass [fretted, gut strings], harpsichord [plucked strings], and/or positiv organ [portable baroque tracker pipe organ], etc.) and voice (natural), to enhance public awareness of an earlier style of performance.
WWW : http://www.fanfareconsort.com
Contact information :
- Postal address:
  - PO Box 784
    Monroe, CT 06468
- Telephone: 203-733-9733 (for concerts: 203-258-9103)
- Fax: 203-459-4249
- E-mail: fanfareconsort@fanfareconsort.com
Home city/country : Connecticut, USA
Members :
- Thom Freas, clarino
- Lisa Rautenberg & Amanda Burr, baroque violins
- Douglas Freundlich, chitarrone
- Christa Rakich, positiv organ
Discography : (Visit http://www.fanfareconsort.com to order on line)
- "Soaring ~ The Music of Italy": Baroque Music originally written for Trumpet and Organ
- "The Intimate Sonate": modern-day premiers of literature specifically written for claino, two baroque violins and basso continuo (baroque contrabass and harpsichord).

La Fantasia

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1989 -- by Rien Voskuilen
Description : Performs Italian, French, German, and English music of the 17th and 19th centuries with an aim to play both the well-known and less celebrated music in the spirit of the Baroque.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Members :
- Judith Freise (violin)
- Eva Scheytt (violin)
- Niek Idema (viola)
- Freek Borstlap (viola da gamba)
- Jacques van der Meer (double bass)
- Rien Voskuilen (organ)
Discography :
- Michel Corrette (1709-1795) - "Les Six Symphonies de Noëls" - Columns Classics - 290412

Farallon Recorder Quartet

Director : Letitia Berlin
Year ensemble formed : 1996
Description : A recorder quartet. (Previously known as the Sirena Recorder Quartet. Name changed in 2000.)
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - 806 Washington Ave.
    Albany, CA 94706
- Telephone : 510-559-4670
- E-mail : tish-feb@mindspring.com (c/o Letitia Berlin)
Home city/country : Oakland, California
Members :
- Frances Blaker
- Louise Carslake
- Hanneke van Proosdij
- Letitia Berlin

Les Favorites

Director : ?
Year ensemble formed : 1984
Description : The resident ensemble at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
WWW : http://www.uwec.edu/Mus-The/faculty/lesfavs.htm
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - c/o Tim Lane
    Department of Music and Theatre Arts
    UW-Eau Claire
    Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
- Telephone : (715) 836-2284
- FAX : ?
- E-mail :
  - lanet@uwec.edu
  - lundeng@uwec.edu
Home city/country : University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Members :
- Tim Lane (baroque flute)
- Ivar Lunde, Jr. (baroque oboe)
- Lucinda Marvin (baroque violin)
- Laura Handler (baroque violoncello)
- Nanette Lunde (harpsichord)

Les Favorites

Director : Holger Speck (?)
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : A baroque orchestra
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Germany
Discography :
- Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707): "In dulci jubilo" - with Vocalensemble Rastatt - Carus CV83.156 (Recorded in 2003. Released in 2004.)
- Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767): "Ein feste Burg" (motets and cantatas) - with Vocalensemble Rastatt - Carus CV83.166 (Recorded in 2004. Released in 2005.)

La Favoritte

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 2002
Description : Special interest in the music of women composers, and the musical traditions of early Canada; great artists from ages past including Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, Barbara Strozzi, and the Ursuline and Augustine Nuns at Québec.
WWW : http://www.lafavoritte.com
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - 35 Kenora St.
    Ottawa, Ontario
    CANADA, K1Y 3K7
- Telephone : (613) 729-6404
- E-mail : info@lafavoritte.com
Home city/country : Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Members : (core)
- Lise Maisonneuve (soprano)
- Madeleine Owen (lute, theorbo, guitar)
- Barbara Zuchowicz (violas da gamba, baroque 'cello)

I Febi Armonici

Director : Alan Curitis (harpsichord)
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : Renamed Il Complesso Barocco in 1992.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Italy

I Febiarmonici

Leader : Jochen Grüner
Year ensemble formed : 1998 -- by Jochen Grüner
Description : The ensemble takes its inspiration from Italian musical troupes of the 18th century which in their time toured their country as "I Febiarmonici" and obtained an outstanding reputation owing to their quality music and love of traveling.
WWW : http://www.ifebiarmonici.de/
Contact information :
- Postal address:
  - Vorbrucher Str. 36
    D-28790 Schwanewede
    GERMANY
- Tel: 0049 - 421-6884706 (c/o Martin Zemke)
- E-mail: office@ifebiarmonici.de
Home city/country : Germany
Members : (international membership)
Discography :
- Joseph Eybler (1765-1846) : "Christmas Oratorio" (Die Hirten bei der Krippe zu Bethlehem) - with soli and the Alsfelder Vokalensemble and Bremer Domchor; Conductor: Wolfgang Helbich - CPO 999 667-2 (Recorded and released in 1999.)
- "Apocryphal Bach Masses" - with the Alsfelder Vokalensemble, Wolfgang Helbich (director) -
  - Vol. 1: Magnificat BWV Anh. 21 - CPO 999 834-2 (Recorded in 2001. Released in 2003.)
  - Vol. 2: BWV 15, 141, 142, 160 - CPO 999 985-2 (Recorded in 2001. Released in 2004.)
- Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672): Musicalisches Exequien / German Requiem (SWV 279-281), Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz (SWV 478) - with the Alsfelder Vocal Ensemble, Wolfgang Helbich (conductor) - Naxos 8.555705 (Released in 2004.)

La Fenice

Artistic Director : Jean Tubéry (cornett, recorder)
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : (translation: "The Phoenix") La Fenice was the title of a work by Giovanni Martino Cesare, an Italian composer and cornett player who moved north of the Alps in the early 17th century. Also the name for the famous Venetian opera house -- that was recently burnt to the ground by arsons.
WWW : http://www.lafenice.asso.fr
Contact information :
- Postal address:
  - 295 boulevard Raspail
    F-75014 Paris
    FRANCE
- Tel : 33 (0)1 43 27 09 96
- Fax : 33 (0)1 43 20 57 19
- E-mail: info@lafenice.asso.fr
Home city/country : France
Members (cumulative listing) :
- Jean Tubéry (cornett, recorder)
- Frithjof Smith (cornett, recorder)
- Cornett: Gebhard David, Yoshimichi Hamada, François Petit-Laurent (cornett)
- Trombone: Franck Poitrineau, Jean-Jacques Herbin, Serge Guillou, Ole Andersen, Christine Bopp, Stephan Legee, Jacques Henry
- Gilles Rapin (trumpet and horn)
- Pierre-Yves Madeuf (horn)
- Jérémie Papasergio (bassoon, recorder, serpent)
- Bernard Fourtet (serpent)
- Violin: Enrico Parizzi, Roberto Falcone, Simon Heyerick, Olivia Centurioni
- Paulina van Laarhoven (viola da gamba, lirone)
- Emilia Gliozzi (violoncello)
- Arno Jochem (violone, viola da gamba)
- Matthias Spaeter (archlute, chitarrone)
- Christina Pluhar (theorbe, harp)
- Mathias Spaeter (theorbe)
- Paulina Van Laarhoven (lirone)
- Jean-Marc Aymes (organ, harpsichord)
- Laurent Stewart (organ, harpsichord)
- Organ: Jörg Andreas Bötticher, Frédéric Desenclos
Discography :
- Du Caurroy: Missa pro defunctis, etc. - with Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius (Michel Laplenie) Erato Musifrance 45607 (Recorded in 1991.)
- Palestrina & Lassus: "Motetti, madrigale e canzoni francesi diminuiti" - Ricercar RIC-208 (Recorded in 1994. Reissued in 2002.)
- "L'Heritage de Monteverdi" recording project (Ricercar label):
  - Vol. 1: "Dialoghi Venetiani" - with works by Scarrani, Picchi, Marini, Kapsberger, Cavalli, Castello, Uccellini, Monteverdi, Piccinini, Rossi, Merulo - RIC 157142 (Recorded in 1995. Reissued as RIC-222)
  - Vol. 2: "Per la Settimana Santa" - with works by Grandi, Turini, Cima, Salvatore, Capello, Sances, Piccinini, Mazzocchi, Banchieri, Monteverdi, Graziani, Cazzati, Grancini - with Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), John Elwes (tenor), Ulrich Mesthaler (baritone) - RIC 166148 (Recorded in 1995. Reissued in 2003 as RIC-226)
  - Vol. 3: Biagio Marini (1597-1665): "Moderne e Curiose Inventioni..." - with Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), John Elwes (tenor), Ulrich Mesthaler (baritone) - RIC 205852 (Recorded in 1995 & 1996)
  - Vol. 4: Dario Castello: "Il stil moderno" - with Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) - RIC 206422 (Recorded in 1995.)
  - Vol. 5: "Per il Santissimo Natale" - with works by Donati, Cazzati, Monteverdi, Banchieri, Storace, Cifra, Tarditi, Picchi, Scarani, Merula, Fiamengo, Frescobaldi, Rigatti - with Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Kathelijne van Laethem (mezzo-soprano), John Elwes (tenor) - RIC 206562 (Recorded in 1998. Reissued as RIC-237.)
  - Vol. 6: "Il Canzionere - La Poesia de Petrarca nei seicento" - works by da Gagliano, Rossi, Peri, Merula, d'India, Landi, Riccio, Pesenti... - with Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) and Stephan Van Dyck (tenor) - RIC 233402 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2001. Reissued in 2004 as RIC-219.)
  - Vol. 7: "Concerto Imperiale" (works for Emperors Ferdinand II & III): works by Buonamente, Castello, Priuli, Castello, Buonamente, Ferro, Pesenti, Neri, Monteverdi - Ricercar RIC-240 (Recorded in 2004. Released in 2005.)
- Philippe Rogier (1560-1596): "Un office de mariage à la cour d'Espagne" (trans.: A marriage at the Spanish Court): Missa tribus choribus Domine Dominus noster - with the Choeur de chambre de Namur, Doulce mémoire, Ricercar Consort - Ricercar RIC 206512 (Recorded in 1996.)
- Pietro Francesco Cavalli: Vespro della Beata Vergine (1656) - with Akademia - Arion / Pierre Verany PV796042 (1996)
- Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672): "Requiem Musikalische Exequien - Motetten" (An Office for the Dead) - with Akademia - Arion / Pierre Verany PV799011 (Recorded in 1998. Released in 1999.)
- Gabrieli: "In festo sanctissimae trinitatis" with the Choeur de Chambre de Namur - Ricercar 207 412 (Assai 222 512) (Recorded in 1998.)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704): "Messe en la mémoire d'un Prince" - with the Choeur de chambre de Namur - Virgin Veritas 5 45394-2 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2000.)
- "Musica Leodiensis" recording project (Ricercar label):
  - Vol. 1 - Gilles Henri Hayne (1590-1650): "Messe de Requiem pour Marie de Médicis" (1643) & "Trois antiennes mariales" (Regina coeli, Ave Regina caelorum, Alma Redemptoris Mater) - with works by Henry du Mont (1610-1684), Léonard Hodémont (ca. 1580-1636) - with Choeur de chambre de Namur & Ricercar Consort - RIC-230 (2 CDs. Recorded in 1999. Released in 2000.)
- "Ex Libris - The musical library of JS Bach" - works by JS Bach, JM Bach, Albinoni, D'Anglebert, Buxtehude, Dieupart, De Grigny, Frescobaldi, Fux, Pachelbel, Raison, Reincken, Rosenmüller - Opus 111 OP30323 (2 CDs. Recorded in 2000. Released in 2001.)
- Pierre Tabart (1643-ca. 1699): Requiem - Magnificat - Te Deum (including works by Nicolas de Grigny and André Raison) - with Ensemble Jacques Moderne - Virgin Veritas 5 45476-2 (Recorded and released in 2001.)
- Marin Marais, Jean de la Fontaine: Pièces en trio et Quinze Contes - Calliope CAL9521-2 (2 CDs)
- Michael Praetorius: Terpsichore Musarum (1612) - with Ricercar Consort - Ricercar RIC-205
- Pierre Menault (1642-1695): "Vêpres pour le Père La Chaize" (1693) - with the Arsys Ensemble (vocal) - K617 118 (Recorded in 2001.)
- Giovanni Battista Bassani (1657-1716): "La Morte Delusa" - Opus 111/Naïve OPS-30332 (Recorded in 2001. Released in 2002.)
- "Vespro a Voce Sola": works by Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Bovicelli, Tarditi, Banchierei, Cozzolani, Marini, Legrenzi, Merula, Falconieri - with Carlos Mena (countertenor) - Naïve/Astrée E8879 (Recorded in 2001.)
- "War and Faith": works by Andrea Gabrieli, Clèment Jannequin, Giorgio Mainerio, Claudio Merlulo, and Matthias Hermann Werrecore - with Chorus Beatorum, Daltrocanto, Il Terzo Suono, Ensemble Il Suonar Parlante - ARTS MUSIC 47691-2 (Recorded in 2002. Released in 2004.)
- Matheo Romero (1575-1647) : "Office pour l'ordre de la Toison d'or" (translation: Office for the Golden Fleece) - with Choeur de Chambre de Namur - Ricercar RIC-229 (Recorded in 2002. Reissed in 2005.)
- "Un concert pour Mazarin - Italian music in 17th-century French manuscript collections": works by Cazzatti, Frescobaldi, Foggia, Turini, Roberday, Monteverdi, Viadana, Cima, Fontei, Cazzatti, Rossi, and Bassani - with Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor - Virgin Classics 5 45656-2 (Released in 2004.)
- Heinrich Schütz - "Histoire de la Nativité" (Historia der Auferstehung Christi SWV 50) - K617 158 (Recorded in 2003. Released in 2004.)
- M-A Charpentier: Te Deum - Messe pour plusieurs instruments - Ricercar RIC-245 (Recorded in 2004. Released in 2006.)
- Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674): "Vanitas Vanitatum" - with Choeur de Chambre de Namur - Cypres CYP1644 (Recorded in 2005. Released in 2006.)

Ferrara Ensemble

Director : Crawford Young
Year ensemble formed : 1983
Description : Three singers and 4 instrumentalists (vielles, harp, lutes, guitar). Ensemble-in-residence at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland
Contact information :
- Postal address:
  - Ferrara Ensemble / Crawford Young
    Rotbergerstr. 6
    CH - 4054 Basel
    SWITZERLAND
- E-mail: 101751.1303@COMPUSERVE.COM (c/o Crawford Young)
Home city/country : Basel, Switzerland
Discography : Todd McComb's list

Festa Rustica

Director : Giorgio Matteoli (violoncello or recorder)
Year ensemble formed : 1992 -- by Matteoli
Description : Specializes in the performance of repertoire from the late Renaissance, the Baroque and Classical periods on original instruments or accurate copies.
WWW : http://www.earlymusic.it
Contact information :
- Postal address:
  - Via Matteotti 93
    20035 LISSONE Milan
    ITALY
- Tel/Fax: +39 039 485318
- cell. 0368.38.32.788
- E-mail:
  - infoearlymusic.it@fastwebnet.it
  - giorgio.matteoli@fastwebnet.it
Home city/country : Milan, Italy
Members :
- Cristiana Cordero (soprano)
- Silvia Colli (violin)
- Carlo Lazzaroni (violin)
- Giorgio Matteoli (violoncello or recorder)
- Marcello Scandelli (violoncello)
- Roberto Bevilacqua (violone)
- Giangiacomo Pinardi (lute, theorbe)
- Walter Mammarella (harpsichord)
- Maurizio Cavagnini (organ)
Discography :
- Francesco Mancini - "Concerti per flauto" - Musicimmagine ORF023
- G. Sammartini - 12 Triosonatas for 2 recorders and b.c. vol. 1 - Agora AG 020.1 (Released in 1996)
- G. Sammartini - 12 Triosonatas for 2 recorders and b.c. vol. 2 - Agora AG 044.1 (Released in ?)
- Alessandro Scarlatti - "Cantatas and Sonatas" - Agora AG 071.1 (Released in 1998)
- Alessandro Scarlatti - "Cantatas and Sonatas" - Agora AG 193.1 (Released in ?)
- Antonio Vivaldi - "Laudate Pueri, Ostro Picta, Ascende Laeta" with Enrica Mari (soprano) - Agora AG 172.1 (Released in ?)
- James Cervetto (?1682 - 1783) : "Sonatas for Cello" - Agora AG 098.1 (Recorded in 1997. Released in 1998)
- Francesco Mancini - "Concertos for Recorder and Strings, Vol. 1" - MR10014
- Alessandro Scarlatti - "Venere e Amore" - with Enrica Mari (soprano), Marco Lazzara (contralto) - Agora AG 193.1 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2000.)
- Francesco Mancini - "Concertos for Recorder and Strings, Vol. 2" - label ?
- Georg Philipp Telemann: "Cantate sacre e triosonata" - Earlymusic Italia 001
- Niccolò Fiorenza - Concerti Per Flauto / Two Trio Sonatas - ASV Gaudeamus CD GAU331 (Released in 2004.)

Les Festes d'Orphée

Music director : Guy Laurent
Year ensemble formed : 1986
Description : The formation varies between 3-70 musicians, including choir.
WWW : http://www.orphee.org
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - Les Festes d'Orphée
    2 montée du Château
    13880 VELAUX
    FRANCE
- Guy Laurent - Rép-Fax : 04 42 74 85 33
- Administration : Christophe Grigri - Tél-Rép-Fax : 04 42 23 42 79
- E-mail : webmaster@orphee.org
Performance management :
Home city/country : Aix-en-Provence, France
Discography : See http://www.orphee.org
- Jean Gilles (1668-1705): "Grands & Petits Motets" - K617 193 (Released in 2007).

Les Festes Vénitiennes

Artistic director : Eric Martinez-Bournat (violoncello, keyboard)
Year ensemble formed : 1994
Description : Baroque music on period instruments. The ensemble is named after the composition by André Campra.
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - 124, avenue Raspail
    93170 Bagnolet
    FRANCE
- Telephone : (33) 01 43 62 65 49
- Fax : (33) 01 43 62 93 54
Home city/country : Paris, France
Members :
- Eric Martinez-Bournat (violoncello, keyboard)
- Valérie Gabail (soprano)
- Arnaud Marzorati (bass)
- Jean-François Novelli (tenor)
Discography :
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: "Les Quatre Saisons" K617 088 (Released in 1998)

Festetics Quartet
(See Quatour Festetics.)

Festetics Vonósnégyes
(See Quatour Festetics.)

Festina Lente

Director : ?
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : Perform music from the 17th & 18th centuries.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Italy
Members :
- Mario Folena (traverso)
- Cristiano Contadin (viola da gamba)
- Paola Frezzato (bassoon)
- Franco Zorzi (chitarrone)
- Roberto Loreggian (keyboard)
Discography :
- Francesco Geminiani : "Sonate e arie per flauto e basso continuo" - Tactus TC 680701
- Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763) : Flute Sonatas, Op. 3, Nos. 1-6 - Tactus TCT 691602 (Recorded in 1997. Released in 2001.)

Fiati con Tasto Köln

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : The ensemble performs music for winds and keyboard from early classicism to early romanticism.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Cologne, Germany
Members :
- Harald Hoeren (keyboard)
- Alfredo Bernardini (oboe)
- Lisa Klevit-Ziegler (clarinet I)
- Diego Montes (clarinet II)
- Ilka Wagner (bassoon)
- Karl Kaiser (traverso)
- Nicholas Selo (violoncello)
Discography :
- CPE Bach (1714-1788) : Wind Chamber Music - CPO 999 508-2 (Recorded in 1997. Released in 1999)

Fiati Virtuosi

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : Four member wind ensemble.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Canada

La Fidelissima

Director : Philippe Couvert (violin)
Year ensemble formed : ?
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : France
Members :
- Philippe Couvert (violon)
- Françoise Couvert (violon)
- Joël Pons (violoncello)
- Michel Maldonado (contrabass)
- René Veyssières (theorbe)
- Carole Parer (harpsichord, organ)
Discography :
- Antonio Caldara: "Sonata a tre" - Arion ARN 68601 (Recorded in 2002. Released in 2003.)

Les Filles de Sainte-Colombe

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : ?
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : ?

I Filomusi

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1994
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - Via Pecorini 14/C
    20138 Milano
    ITALY
- Telephone : ++39 (0)2 70104582
- FAX : ?
- E-mail : filomusi@telmark.it
Home city/country : Milan, Italy
Members :
- Alberto Stevanin (violin)
- Marco Testori (violoncello)
- Matteo Messori (harpsichord, organ)

Fiori Musicale

Artistic director : Zygmunt Kaczmarski (violin)
Year ensemble formed : ?
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Cracow, Poland

Fiori Musicali

Artistic director : Thomas Albert (violin)
Guest conductor : Andrew Lawrence-King
Year ensemble formed : 1978 -- by Thomas Albert.
Description : Special emphasis on baroque composers from Northern Germany.
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - Obernstrasse 62-66
    D-28195 Bremen
    GERMANY
- Telephone: +49 421 170427
- Fax: +49 421 1655436
Home city/country : Bremen, Germany
- Reinhard Keiser (1674-1739) : "Masaniello furioso" (an opera in 3 acts) - with soli and Chor des Forum Alte Musik Bremen - CPO 999 110-2 (Recorded in 1989. Released in 1993.)
- Handel : "Almira, Königen von Castillen" - with soli; conductor: Andrew Lawrence-King - CPO 999 275-2 (Recorded in 1994. Released in 1996.)
- Johann David Heinichen - "Dresden Wind Concertos" - with Laurence Dean (traverso), Martin Stadler (oboe), Harriett Herrle (oboe), Thomas Albert (violin) - CPO 999 6372 (Recorded in 1998. Released in 1999.)

Fiori Musicali

Director : Penelope Rapson (harpsichord)
Trustees : Monica Huggett and others
Year ensemble formed : 1983 -- by Rapson
Description : Orchestra and chamber group performing 17th- and 18th-century music on period instruments. To bridge the gap between historically-informed scholarly performance and music which touches and involves the listener. 30-40 concerts annually.
WWW : http://www.fiori-musicali.com
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - Bank Cottage, Preston Capes
    Northamptonshire, NN11 3TD
    UNITED KINGDOM
- Telephone : +44 (0) 1327 361380
- FAX : +44 (0) 8700 517752
- E-mail : fiori@fiori-musicali.com
Home city/country : Northamptonshire, UK
Concert schedule : Throughout the year in London and the Midlands, and annually in November at Stationers' Hall, in the City of London as part of the St Ceciliatide International Festival of Music.
Discography :
- Metronome MET CD 1019 - Bach / Zelenka
  JS Bach (1685-1750) : Violin Concerto in D minor / Linder-Dewan
  Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) : Sinfonia in A minor (1723)
  JS Bach : 'Brandenburg' Concerto no.2
- Unicorn-Kanchana DKP (CD) 9109 - In Praise of St Cecilia
  Henry Purcell (1659-1695) : Hail! Bright Cecilia (1692)
  Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) : Laudate Pueri Dominum (1720)
- Meridian CDE 84195 - Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
  The Four Seasons / Wallfisch
  Motet 'In furore' / Eckerlsey
  Sinfonia (L'Incoronazione di Dario, 1717)
  Agitata da due venti (La Griselda, 1725)
  Alma oppressa (La fida Ninfa, 1732)
- Metronome MET CD 1024 - Haydn / Wanczura
  Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) : Missa in angustiis (Nelson Mass) (1798)
  Ernst von Wanczura (c.1750-1801?) : Symphony no.2 (The Russian)
  Soloists: Kwella / Chambers / Hurndall-Smith / Birchall
- Metronome MET CD 1061 - Vivaldi
  Chamber Concertos - Pamela Thorby, recorder; Gail Hennessy, oboe; Andrea Morris, violin; Katy Bircher, flute; Sally Holman, bassoon; Peter McCarthy, violone; Jennifer Morsches, cello; David Miller, lute and theorbo; Penelope Rapson, director/harpsichord

I Fiori Musicali

Artistic director : Maria Giovanna Fiorentino (recorder)
Year ensemble formed : ?
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Italy
Members : (cumulative)
- Maria Giovanna Fiorentino (recorder)
- Marco Rosa Salva (recorder)
- Pietro Prosser (calichon)
- Paolo Tognon (bassoon)
- Irena Pahor (viola da gamba)
- Roberto Loreggian (harpsichord)
Discography :
- Diogenio Bigaglia (1670 - ca. 1745): "7 Sonatas for recorder and basso continuo" - Tactus 670201 (Released in 1998)
- Giovanni Sammartini- "XII Sonatas for two German Flutes, or Violins with a Thorough Bass" - Tactus 691901 (Released in 1999)

Fires of Love

Director : ?
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : Performs music of the period 1500-1700.
WWW : http://www.firesoflove.co.uk
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - Fires Of Love Concerts
    West Cottage
    Glenduckie
    By Cupar
    Fife KY14 6JF
    SCOTLAND
- Telephone / FAX : 01337 842 147
- E-mail :
  - jo@firesoflove.co.uk
  - frances@firesoflove.co.uk
Home city/country : Scotland
Members :
- Frances Cooper (soprano)
- Jo Hugh-Jones (bass voice, recorders)
- Gordon Ferries (vihuela, Renaissance guitar)
- Marcus Claridge (percussion)
Discography :
- "Love and Reconquest Music from Renaissance Spain" - Delphian Records DCD34003

Fitzwilliam String Quartet

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1968. Re-established in 1996.
Description : Depending on the repertoire, they perform on either modern or historical instruments.
WWW : http://www.fitzwilliamquartet.org
Contact information : visit http://www.fitzwilliamquartet.org
Home city/country : UK
Members :
- Jonathan Sparey (violin)
- Lucy Russell (violin)
- Alan George (viola)
- Daniel Yeadon (violoncello)
Discography :
- FJ Haydn: "The Seven Last Words" - Linn Records CKD 153 (Released in 2001.)

Les Flamboyants

Director : Michael Form (recorder)
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : Specialize in Medieval and Renaissance music.
Contact information :
- form.m@balcab.ch (c/o Michael Form)
Home city/country : Switzerland
Members : (cumulative)
- Miriam Andersen (voice)
- Kelly Landerkin (voice) (E-mail: landerkin@vokalmusik.ch)
- Marilla Vargas (voice)
- Michael Form (recorder)
- Susanne Ansong (fiddle)
- Viva Biancaluna Biffi (fiddle)
- Norihisa Sugawara (lute & fiddle)
- Agileu Motta (lute)
- Irene Klein (viola da gamba)
- Rogério Gonçalves (percussion)
Discography :
- "Hildegard von Bingen und der heiligen Birgitta von Schweden" : Raumklang RK 9802 (Recorded and released in 1998.)
- Ottaviano Petrucci : "Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A" (Venice 1501) : Raumklang RK 2005 (Released in 2001.)

Flanders Recorder Quartet
(See Vier Op'n Rij.)

Flautando Köln

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1990
Description : Female recorder quartet
WWW : http://flautando-koeln.de/
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - c/o Ursula Thelen
    Meister-Gerhard-Straße 20
    D-50674 Köln
    GERMANY
- Tel/Fax: 0221 - 37 30 36
- E-mail : info@flautando-koeln.de
Home city/country : Cologne, Germany
Members :
- Katharina Hess
- Susanne Hochscheid
- Ursula Thelen
- Kerstin de Witt
Discography :
- "La Spiritata" - Recorder music from 4 centuries. Ars Musici AM 3027-2 (Released in 1996.)
- "Ancor che col partire" - Recorder music from the 16th century. Ars Musici AM 1286-2 (Released in 2000.)
- Johann Christian Schickhardt: "VI Concerts à 4 flutes et basse continuo" - with guest artists - Ars Musici AM 1320-2 (Recorded and released in 2001.)

flauto con bassi

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1999
Description : To perform lively on period instruments music which highlights the recorder or flute music of the 17th and 18th century. Trio sonatas (flute, viola da gamba, & b.c.). Polyphonic music of the 15th and 16th centuries.
WWW : http://www.flauto-con-bassi.de
Contact information :
- E-mail :
  - post@flauto-con-bassi.de
  - flautoconbassi@web.de
Home city/country : Heidelberg, Germany
Members :
- Gabriele Hilsheimer (flauto traverso & flauto dolce)
- Petra Manz (viola da gamba)
- Johannes Vogt (lute, theorbo & baroque guitar), and
- voice, strings, harpsichord for some projects

Flauto Dolce

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1980
Description : A recorder quintet.
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - c/o Lena Bjerstedt
    Fridarpsvägen 110
    S-291 94 Kristianstad
    SWEDEN
- Telephone : +46 44-733 13
- FAX : ?
- E-mail : flautod@hem3.passagen.se
Home city/country : Sweden
Members :
- Ann-Charlotte Larsson
- Cecilia Kjelldén
- Marit Nyberg
- Annika Johansson
- Lena Bjerstedt

The Flautodors

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : Recorder quartet
WWW : http://www.theflautadors.org
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : UK
Members :
- Catherine Fleming
- Celia Ireland
- Fiona Russell
- Ian Wilson
Discography :
- Henry Purcell: "Phantasies, Ayres and Chaconys" - Deux-Elles DXL1123 (Released in 2007.)

Florata
(See Ensemble Florata.)

Florilegia

Co-directors : Sara Colburn & David Wilson
Year ensemble formed : 1996 -- in Bloomington, Indiana
Description : The ensemble concentrates on 17th- and 18th-century repertoire for voice and strings. The name of the group originates in the writings of the late 17th-century composer Georg Muffat, who described his two collections of dance suites as florilegia, or "bouquets."
Contact information :
- Postal address : ?
- Telephone : ?
- FAX : ?
- E-mail : sara@icspress.com (c/o Sara Colburn)
Home city/country : San Francisco Bay area, California
Members :
- Sara Colburn (soprano)
- David Wilson (violin)
- Joanna Blendulf (cello and treble viol)
- JungHae Kim (harpsichord)

Florilegio Ensemble

Artistic Director : Marcello Serafini
Year ensemble formed : 1995
Description : The repertoire performed is from the beginning of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century.
Contact information :
- E-mail: florilegio@aliamusica.net
Home city/country : Italy
Members : cumulative
- Anita Camarella: voice, vielle, micanon
- Maria Consigli: voice
- Marcello Serafini: vielle, chitarrone
- Isacco Colombo: recorder, ciaramello, flute, tambourine
- Antonio Serafini: lute, cornamusa
- Alberto Crugnola: dulcimer, lute, ghironda, voice
- Sergeï Yemelyanenkov: trombone
- Dani Pelagatti: cornemuse, bombarde
- Donatella Colletti: voice
- Massimiliano Broglia: voice
- Nino Aulicino: voix, guimbarde, tammorra [tambourin]
- Rita Duca: flute
- Sigrid Lee & Sabina Colonna Preti: vielles
Discography :
- "O Tempo Bono - Music at the Aragonese Court of Naples, 15th century" - with the instrumental ensemble Alta Cappella - Symphonia SY 00180 (Released in 2001.)
- "Orchesographie, 1589" - Symphonia SY 02196 (Released in 2002)
- "Triumpho de le Done - Late 15th Century Music from Italy": Symphonia SY 03208 (Recorded in 2003. Released in 2005.)

Florilegium

Artistic Director : Ashley Solomon
Leader : Kati Debretzeni
Year ensemble formed : 1991 -- by Ashley Solomon and Neal Peres Da Costa
Description : One of Britain's leading period instrument ensembles specializing in music from Baroque to early Romantic. The group is a flexible ensemble performing small-scale chamber music up to large orchestral works. Ensemble in Residence at London's Wigmore Hall from 1998-2000.
WWW : http://www.florilegium.org.uk
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - 21 Village Road
    London N3 1TL
    UK
- Tel/fax: +44 (0)20 8346 2896
- E-mail: info@florilegium.org.uk
Home city/country : London, UK
Members:
- Current
  - Ashley Solomon (transverse flute/recorder)
  - Kati Debretzeni (violin)
  - Daniel Yeadon (violoncello, viola da gamba)
  - Jennifer Morsches (violoncello, viola da gamba)
  - David Miller (theorbo, guitar)
  - Neal Peres Da Costa (harpsichord, organ)
  - James Johnstone (harpsichord, organ)
- Former
  - Rachel Podger (violin)
  - Anna McDonald (violin)
  - Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo/guitar)
  - Gary Cooper (harpsichord, organ)
Discography :
- Channel Classics
- http://www.florilegium.org.uk

Florilegium Musicum Rotterdam

Director : Willi Gundlach
Year ensemble formed : ?
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Flute Consort

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 2002
Contact information :
- Postal address : ?
- Telephone : (781) 283-2072
- FAX : ?
- E-mail : cfontijn@wellesley.edu (c/o Claire Fontijn-Harris)
Home city/country : USA
Members :
- Ruth Cunningham, tenor flute
- Cathy Folkers, tenor flute
- Claire Fontijn-Harris, tenor flute
- Michael Lynn, bass and tenor flute
- Ardal Powell, tenor, bass, and discant flute
- Cathy Liddell, renaissance lute
Concert schedule : debuts June 2003.

Les flûtes d'Alleman

Director : Philippe Allain-Dupré
Year ensemble formed : 1990
Description : The group explores the repertory written for 1-5 transverse flute from the 16th-17th centuries - featuring the composers Attaingnant, Praetorius, Mersenne, and Van Eyck.
Contact information :
- E-mail: allaindu@club-internet.fr
Home cities/country : Toulouse & Paris, France

Folger Consort

Year ensemble formed : 1976 -- by Christopher Kendall
Description : The ensemble presents music from the 12th through 18th centuries and produces one recording every year.
WWW : http://www.folger.edu/public/consort/menu.asp
Contact information : c/o Susanne Oldham, Manager
- Postal address :
  - The Folger Consort
    201 East Capitol Street S.E.
    Washington, D.C. 20003
- Telephone : 202-675-0379
- FAX : 202-544-7520
- E-mail : Oldham@folger.edu
Home city/country : Washington, DC
Current Members :
- Robert Eisenstein (bowed strings, recorders, programming director)
- Christopher Kendall (lute, harp)
Past Members :
- Scott Reiss
- Tina Chancey
Concert schedule : http://www.folger.edu/public/consort/menu.asp
Discography : http://www.folger.edu/public/consort/menu.asp

Les Folies françoises

Director : Patrick Cohën-Akenine (violin)
Year ensemble formed : 1998 -- by musicians from l'école française
Description : Named after François Couperin's 13th book.
WWW :
- http://www.foliesfrancoises.com
- http://www.fevis.com/groupes/foliesfrancaises.html
Contact information :
- Postal address:
  - c/o Olivier Lexa, Administrator
    12, villa du Bel air
    75012 Paris
    FRANCE
- Tel. & fax : +33 (0)1 43 46 02 01
- E-mail : contact@foliesfrancoises.com
Home city/country : France
Discography :
- "Airs baroques françoises" (French baroque opera arias) with Patricia Petibon (soprano): works by Rameau, Lully, Charpentier, and Grandval - Virgin Veritas VC 5 45481 2 (Recorded and released in 2001.)
- Nicolas Bernier (1664-1734): "Les Nuits de Sceaux" - Alpha 058 (Recorded in 2003. Released in 2004.)
- Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764): "Le Tombeau" - Alpha 083 (Recorded in 2004. Released in 2005.)
- Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805): Stabat Mater - Quartet in G minor, Op. 24/6 - with Sophie Karthäuser, soprano - Ricercar RIC244 (Released in 2005.)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier: "Les Plaisirs de Versailles", including Sonate à Huit, Idylle sur le Retour de la Santé du Roy - DVD Armide (Released in 2005.)
- WA Mozart: "Nachtmusik" - Alpha 092 (Recorded in 2005. Released in 2006.)
- "Totus Amore": works by Alessandro Scarlatti, Corelli, Giovanni Battista Bassani (1654-1716), Stradella - with Ryland Angel (countertenor) - Deux-Elles Classical Recordings DXL1054 (Recorded in 2005. Released in 2006.)
- Henri-Joseph Rigel (1741-1799). La Destruction de Jéricho / La Sortie d'Égypte / Jephté - with Isabelle Poulenard (soprano), Philippe Do (tenor), Alain Buet (baritone), Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, L'Orchestre des Folies Françoises Olivier Schneebeli (director) - K617 198 (Released in 2007.)

La Folia

Director : Chris Berensen (keyboard)
Year ensemble formed : 2004
Description : A young chamber ensemble that specialises in recreating the music of the enlightenment (1600 - 1800).
WWW : http://members.optusnet.com.au/andywhite/
Contact information :
- Postal address : ?
- Telephone : (Australia) 0429942311
- E-mail : lafolia@optusnet.com.au
Home city/country : Sydney, Australia
Members :
- Recorders: Alana Blackburn, Laura Bell
- John Ma : baroque violin and viola (E-mail: mohnja@hotmail.com)
- Delphine Barbot : baroque violin
- Andrew White : lute, theorbo and baroque guitar
- Chris Berensen : harpsichord, organ and fortepiano

La Folia

Director : Pedro Bonet
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : A baroque ensemble.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Spain
Discography :
- "Música Insrumental del tiempo de Velázquez" (Instrumental Music in the Age of Velazquez): Dahiz Produccions 797 (Released in 1999.)
  - FRANCISCO CORREA DE ARAUXO (1584 - 1654): Tiento de medio registro de bajón de décimo tono; Tiento de medio registro de tiple
  - ERIQUE BOTELERO (? - c. 1652): Sonata a 2
  - GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI (1583 - 1643): Toccata prima; Canzon detta "La Tromboncina"
  - DARIO CASTELLO (? - ?): Sonata seconda; Sonata nona
  - BARTOLOMÉ DE SELMA Y SALAVERDE (c. 1580? - d. 1638): Fantasia a basso solo; Balletto; Corrent; Gagliarda
  - JACOB VAN EYCK (c. 1590 - 1657): Batali
  - JOHANN JACOB FROBERGER (1616 - 1667): Suite in sol menor
  - ANDREA FALCONIERO (c. 1585 - 1656): L'Austria, canciona echa para el Serenissimo Señor Don Juan de Austria; Folia echa para mi Señora Doña Tarolilla de Carallenos; Battaglia de Barabaso yerno de Satanás
- "Música en la corte de Felipe V y de los Borbones": Dahiz Produccions 028 (Recorded in 2004. Released in 2005.)
  - CHARLES DESMAZURES (1669 - 1736): Suite Premiere
  - SEBASTIAN DURON (1660 - 1716): Tonada "Corazon, causa teneir"
  - JOSE DE SAN JUAN (c. 1670? - 1747): Cantata De Eurotas Y Diana
  - GIACOMO FACCO (1680 - 1753): Balletto No. 2 en Sol mayor
  - ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI (1659 - 1725): Cantata "Augellin"
  - JAUME DE LA TE Y SAGAU (c. 1680 - 1736): Cantata "Tiorba Cristalina"
  - JOSE HERRANDO (c. 1720 - 1763): Sonata "El Jardin De Aranjuez..."
  - M. PIGNOLET DE MONTECLAIR (1667 - 1737): Cantate Europe
- "La Imitación de la Naturaleza": Dahiz Produccions (Recorded in 2004. Released in 2006.)
  - Handel: Sonate F-Dur op. 1, 11
  - Couperin: Les Rossignol en Amour
  - Rameau: Le Rappel des Oisseaux; La Poule
  - Chedeville / Vivaldi: Sonate in C major op. 13, 1
  - Hotteterre: Suite Nr. 13
  - Herveloix: Rossignol; Cor de chasse; Papillon
  - Meares / Hill: Tunes for the Linnet Nr. 1-5
  - Boismortier: Premier Ballet de Village Nr. 5

La Follia--Austin Baroque

Artistic director : Dell Hollingsworth (recorder)
Year ensemble formed : 1980
Description : "La Follia" meaning "folly," is the title of a 16th-century Spanish dance which fascinated many composers (esp. baroque) giving rise to several "Variations on La Follia". The ensemble performs Baroque music using instruments and performance styles proper to the Baroque period (c. 1600-1750).
WWW : http://www.lafollia.org
Contact information :
- E-mail : info@lafollia.org
Home city/country : Austin, Texas
Members :
- Dell Hollingsworth (recorder)
- Keith Womer (harpsichord, organ)
- Stephanie Prewitt (mezzo soprano)
- Gwen Ashba (violoncello)
- Marcus McGuff (baroque flute)
- William Whyland Davis (harpsichord)

La Follia Salzburg

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1986 -- by a number of young musicians from Austria and Germany.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Salzburg, Austria
Members:
- Clemens Nuszbaumer (violin)
- Michael Lutz (violin)
- Lothar Haass (viola)
- Pia Nuszbaumer (violoncello)
- Ann Fahrni (violone)
- Bernhard Prammer (harpsichord)

Il Fondamento

Artistic director : Paul Dombrecht (oboe)
Year ensemble formed : 1989 -- by Dombrecht
Description : Il Fondamento performs the musically important, but as less well-known, repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries. Since 1995 Il Fondamento has been officially recognized as "Cultural Ambassador of Flanders" by the Ministry of the Flemish community.
WWW : http://www.ilfondamento.be
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - Il Fondamento
    Noordstraat 74, Rue du Nord
    B-1000 Brussels
    BELGIUM
- Telephone : +32-2 502 09 80
- Fax: +32-2 223 48 34
- E-mail : info@ilfondamento.be
Home city/country : Brugge, Belgium
Discography :
- Telemann: Tafelmusik III, Nos. 1-6 - Accent ACC 78643 (Released in 1988)
- Hasse: Requiem, Miserere - Opus 111 OPS 30-80 (Released in 1993)
- Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-87): "Ouvertures & Sinfonias" - Vanguard Classics 99703 (Recorded in 1994. Released in 1994) -- re-released by the Passacaille label as CDS 903 in 2002.
- Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741): "Ouvertures" - Vanguard Classics 99705 (Recorded in 1994. Released in 1994) -- re-released by the Passacaille label as PAS 905 in 2004.
- Telemann: "Oboe and Oboe d'amore Concertos" - Vanguard Classics 99701 (Recorded in 1994. Released in 1994) -- re-released by the Passacaille label in 2003 at CD 901.
- Telemann: Ouverture in B-flat major 'La Bourse', Suites in g minor and C major - Vanguard Classics 99710 (Recorded in 1996. Released in 1996)
- JS Bach: St. John Passion - Vanguard Classics VAN99712 (2 CDs, Released in 1997)
- CPE Bach: Oboe concertos Wq 164 & 165 & Sinfonia in e-moll Wq 177 - Vanguard Classics 99718 (Released in 1997)
- Handel: "Ceremonial Music" (Music for the Royal Fireworks and Concerti a due Cori) - Vanguard Classics 99722 (Released in 1998)
- Handel: Water Music; Telemann: Wassermusik - Vanguard Classics 99713 (Recorded in 1995. Released in 1998) -- re-released by the Passacaille label as CD 9513 in 2000.
- W. F. Bach: Concerti for Harpsichord / Guy Penson, et al - Ricercar RIC 206312 (Released in 1998)
- Vivaldi: Oboe Concertos (RV 451,454,457,460,461,463) - Vanguard Classics 99723 (Released in 1997) -- re-released by the Passacaille label as CD 923 in 2000.
- Jan Dismas Zelenka: "Prague 1723" - Vanguard Classics 99724 (Released in 1998) -- re-released by the Passacaille label in 2000.
- Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729) : "Gallant Court Music" - Vanguard Classics 99721 (Released in 1998)
- Jan Dismas Zelenka: "De Profundis - Miserere - Requiem" - Passacaille 9528 (Recorded in 1998. Released in 2000.)
- G. Ph. Telemann : "Ouvertures" - Ouverture in D Major, for 3 oboes, bassoon, strings and basso continuo; Ouverture in F Major, for 2 horns, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings and basso continuo; Ouverture in G minor, for 3 oboes, bassoon, strings and basso continuo - Passacaille 929 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2000.)
- WA Mozart: "Early Symphonies"- Passacaille 929 (Released in 2001.)
- Pro defunctis - Liturgy for the death of the baroque area - with La sfera del canto - Passacaille 933 (Released in 2001.)
- Frans-Joseph Krafft (1721-95): "De Profundis - Levavi Oculos Meos" - with La sfera del canto - Passacaille 934 (Released in 2001.)
- Johann David Heinichen: "Galant Court Music" - Passacaille 921 (Recorded in 1997. Released in 2002.)
- Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758): Ouvertures in G minor, D minor and G major - Fuga Libera FUG502 (Released in 2004.)
- Juan Cristómo de Arriaga (1806-1826): "Obras vocales" (Vocal Works) - Fuga Libera FUG515 (Released in 2006.)
- Telemann: "Geistliches singen und spielen - Christmas Cantatas" - includes Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland TWV 1:1174; Der jüngste Tag wird bald sein Zie erreichen TWV 1:301; Uns ist ein Kind geboren TWV 1:1451; Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ TWV 1:612 - Fuga Libera FUG 520 (Recorded and released in 2006.)
- JC Arriaga: "Musica para Orquesta - Orchestral Works (1818-1824)" - Fuga Libera FUG 522 (Released in 2007.)

Fons Amoris

Director : Giorgio Ubaldi
Year ensemble formed : ?
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Itlay
Discography :
- Niccolo Jommelli (1714-74): Miserere / Pietà Signore / Sei duettini sacri - Bongiovanni GB 2323 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2002.)

Fons Musicae

Director : Yasunori Imamura (theorbe, baroque guitar) - director since 1997
Year ensemble formed : 1997-- by Imamura
Description : Translation: "Fountain of Music". Hence, the ensemble interprets the music with "lively enthusiasm and freshness, overflowing with invention." Performs mainly French and Italian music of the 17th and 18th centuries.
WWW : http://www.allegra-online.de/fonsmusicae.htm
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : France
Members : (cumulative listing)
- Core Members
  - Monique Zanetti (soprano)
  - Pascal Bertin (countertenor)
  - Yasunori Imamura (theorbe, baroque guitar)
- Guest Members
  - Stéphanie Pfister (baroque violin)
  - Isabelle Lucas (baroque violin)
  - Amandine Beyer (baroque violin)
  - Guido Balestracci (viola da gamba)
  - Brian Feehan (theorbe)
Discography :
- Michel Lambert (1611-1696): "Airs de Cour" - Et'cetera - KTC 1195
- Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747): "Luci Barbare," cantate, duetti, sonate - Et'cetera KTC 1202 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2000.)
- Agostino Steffani (1654-1728): "Cantatas, Duets, & Sonatas" - with Monique Zanetti (soprano), Pascal Bertin (countertenor) - Pan Classics 510 131 (Recorded in 2000. Released in 2001.)
- Antonio Caldara (1670-1736): "Cantate e Sonate" - with Monique Zanetti , Pascal Bertin - Pan Classics PC 10139 (Released in 2004.)
- Francesco Gasparini (1668-1727): "Sonate e Cantate" - Pan Classics 10189 (Recorded in 2005. Released in 2006.)

La Fontaine

Director : ?
Year ensemble formed : 1996
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Tokyo, Japan
Members :
- Koji Ezaki (oboe, treble recorder, bassoon)
- Masamitsu San'nomiya (oboe)
- Teruo Takamure (cello)
- Makiko Mizunaga (harpsichord)
Discography :
- "The Baroque Spirit": PLA Trio Sonata in G, TELEMANN Trio Sonata in A, BRESCIANELLO Concerto in B, QUANTZ Trio Sonata in G, FASCH Trio Sonata in G - Oboe Classics CC2001

Fontana Musica -- disbanded

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1993
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Sydney, Australia
Members:
- Andrew Dalton (countertenor)
- Jane Edwards (soprano)
- Rosalind Halton (harpsichord)
- Tommie Andersson (lute)
- Hans-Dieter Michatz (transverse flute, recorder)

La Fontegara

Director : ?
Year ensemble formed : 1988
Description : Perform works from the Renassiance, Baroque, and Rococo periods. Collaborate with the ensemble "Musicians of the Old Post Road" since 1996.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Mexico
Members :
- Maria Diez-Canedo (traverso)
- Gabriela Villa Walls (viola da gamba)
- Eloy Cruz (theorbe, baroque guitar)
Discography :
- "Galant with an Attitude" : works by Juan and José Pla (18th century) for flutes, strings & continuo - with Musicians of the Old Post Road - Meridian CDE 84419 (Recorded and released in 2000.)

La Fontegara Amsterdam

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1979
Description : A recorder trio.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Members: (Other instrumentalists join the ensemble as needed.)
- Saskia Coolen (recorder)
- Peter Holtslag (recorder)
- Han Tol (recorder)
Discography :
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755): "Recorder Sonatas" - with Marion Middenway (viola da gamba & cello), David Mings (bassoon), Jacques Ogg (harpsichord & organ) - Globe GLO 5033
- "17th Century Italian Recorder Music" - works by Tarquinio Merula (1594/95-1665), Giovanni Battista Fontana (?-c. 1630), Giovanni Battista Buonamente (?-1642), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Giovanni Battista Riccio (?-?), Giovanni Martino Cesare (c. 1590-1667), Ecco Marco Uccellini (c. 1603-1680), Carlo Farina (c. 1600-c. 1640), Nicolo Corradini (?-1646) - with Marion Middenway (viola da gamba & cello), David Mings (dulcian), Jacques Ogg (harpsichord & organ) - Globe GLO 5065 (Released in 1995)
- "Common Grounds" - works by Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450-1517), Solomon Eccles (1640/50-1710), Elway Bevin (c. 1554-1638), Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) / Marin Marais (1656-1728) / Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), John Baldwine (?-1615), Antoine Brumel (c. 1460-c. 1515), Vincenzo Ruffo (c. 1508-1587), Erasmus Lapicidia (1440/45-1547), Biagio Marini (c. 1597-1663), and Anonymous - Globe GLO 5112

The Forbury Consort

Director : Alan Crumpler
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : Perform with recorders, crumhorn, percussion, & viol.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : ?
Discography : Griffin Records
- "Pastyme with Good Companye": with I Fagioli - CRCD 2365
- "Coronation of the First Elizabeth": with King`s Trumpeters, Magnificat (choral) - GCCD 4032

Fortepianotrio Florestan

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : ?
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : The Netherlands ?
Members :
- Peter Despiegelaere (violin)
- Karel Steylaerts (violoncello)
- Jan Vermeulen (fortepiano)
Discography : Discover International
- Mendelssohn: "Piano Trios; Opus 49 & Opus 66 - C2134413 (1998)
- FJ Haydn: "Piano Trios" (2000)
- Schubert : "Complete Works for Fortepiano" - 920488 (2 CDs)

Fortuna

Artistic Director : Jacqueline Dubach (consort flutes)
Year ensemble formed : 2003

Description :

Fortuna is the ambassador of a fascinating repertoire: the Ars Nova of the Netherlands. From the exciting Dutch Ars Subtilior to the modest polyphony of the Dutch convents, the ensemble has achieved critical acclaim for its original and passionate performances of Ars Nova. Fortuna successfully turns extensive musicological research into vivid musical expression and a powerful presentation. The reconstruction and performance of Ars Nova from Dutch manuscripts, like the Utrecht Chansonnier with its superb Ars Subtilior pieces, established Fortuna's reputation in the field of Early Music. Fortuna's artistic framework encourages today's audiences to experience and appreciate the refined eloquence of Ars Nova, thereby allowing the beauty of the music to speak for itself on its own merits: Early Music in Context.

Ensemble Fortuna is named after one of the most powerful allegorical characters in medieval art and literature: Lady Fortune. This whimsical goddess plays a crucial part in the songs and poetry of the late medieval period, always meddling with the loves and lives of innocent mortals. Many a lover in medieval poetry laments Fortune's evil manipulations, making it impossible for him to love and serve his mistress:

Puis que de vous departir me convient
Par fortune, qui par grant aramie
A tout hure de moy grever souvient
(Adieu vous di - anon. Utrecht 6e 37II)

Therefore I cannot but leave you,
because of Fortune, who is my greatest enemy
and the source of my continuous suffering

In medieval iconography Fortune is depicted as a noble lady, holding her wheel of fortune. Tiny humans cling on to it, trying to get to the top of the wheel. But Fortune determines their fate, simply by turning her wheel, and she hardly ever smiles upon them - no man, rich or poor, young or old, can escape her: anybody who tries to challenge, charm, avoid, or fight her in a miserable attempt to turn his luck, will be broken on her wheel.

WWW : http://www.ensemble-fortuna.nl
Contact information :
- Postal address:
  - Oosterstraat 6b
    3581 MK Utrecht
    THE NETHERLANDS
- Tel: (+31) (0)30 – 251 82 45
- E-mail: info@ensemble-fortuna.nl
Home city/country : Utrecht, The Netherlands
Members :
- Hilde van Ruymbeke (soprano)
- Jos Somsen (soprano)
- Christopher Kale (tenor)
- Jacqueline Dubach (consort flutes)
- Jonathan Talbott (vielle)
- Elly van Munster (lute)

Fortune

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : A recorder quartet.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Australia
Members:
- Peter Petocz
- Yarmila Alfonsetti
- Elizabeth Hassan
- Jodie Goldney

Fortune's Wheel

Director :
Year ensemble formed : 1996 -- for the International Festival of Early Music in Mexico City
Description : Fortune's Wheel is a spirited collaboration of four distinguished performers devoted to rediscovering the riches of Medieval musical traditions. Their performances combine a meticulous attention to vocal sonority and instrumental virtuosity with an engaging sense of theater and
improvisation. Between them, the members of Fortune's Wheel have recorded over 70 early music CDs.
WWW : http://fortuneswheel.org
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - c/o Lydia Knutson
    30 Howard Street
    Cambridge MA 02139
- Telephone : 617-876-9278
- Fax: 617-876-9011
- E-mail : LHKnutson@aol.com
Home city/country : Cambridge, Massachusetts
Members :
- Lydia Heather Knutson (voice)
- Paul Cummings (voice)
- Shira Kammen (vielle, harp, voice)
- Robert Mealy (vielle, harp, voice) (E-mail: remealy@compuserve.com)
Concert schedule : http://fortuneswheel.org
Discography :
- "Pastourelle, the Art of Machaut and the Trouveres" - Dorian Recordings DOR-93245 (2002)

Fort Worth Early Music
(See Texas Camerata.)

Foscarina

Director : ?
Year ensemble formed : 1995
Description : Early baroque chamber music. The ensemble is named after a mysterious piece for violins, trombone and continuo by Biagio Marini, thought to have been written for Antonio Foscarini, Venetian ambassador to England around 1610.
WWW : http://www.farthingale.co.uk
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : UK
Members :
- Susan Marshall (renaissance and baroque violins)
- June Emmerson (violins, bass viol and soprano)
- Martin Grayson (lutes, vihuela and tenor viol)
- Steve Heavens (violone, theorbo, baroque guitar and division viol)
- William Marshall (trombone, renaissance flute and recorders)
- Simon Pickard (harpsichord, curtal and renaissance recorders)

Foundling Baroque Orchestra

Music Director: Dana Maiben (violin)
Artistic Director : Margaret Cushing (violoncello)
Year ensemble formed : 2003
Description : "Inspired by the women of l’Ospedale della Pietà, the 18th-century Venetian foundling home where Vivaldi worked as a music teacher, Foundling is embarking on a dual mission: to develop a world-class professional period instrument ensemble dedicated to the magnificent string music of the Baroque era; and to bring this tremendous artistic resource to bear on the needs of women and children in our community."
WWW : http://foundling.org
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - Foundling
    P.O. Box 6046
    Providence, RI 02940
    USA
- Telephone : 401-621-6123
- FAX : 401-274-2259
- E-mail : info@foundling.org
Home city/country : Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Four Nations Ensemble

Director : Andrew Appel (harpsichord, fortepiano)
Year ensemble formed : 1986
Description : The ensemble's name derives from Couperin's sonatas, The Nations, (of which there were 4) from the college de quatres Nations organized by Cardinal Mazarin and Louis XIV to centralize artistic policy in Paris .. just as political policy had been centralized by Cardinal Richelieu. These four countries represented the "true" catholic monarchies in Europe at the time : France, Spain, Austria and Savoy (L'imperiale and Piemontoise). Of interest, Poland was excluded from the list of nations, because the king was elected.
WWW : http://www.fournations.org/
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - c/o Andrew Appel
    PO Box 122
    Germantown, NY 12526
- Telephone : (212) 928-5708
- FAX : (518) 537-5369
- E-mail : FourNationsInc@aol.com
Home city/country : New York, New York
Members:
- Andrew Appel (harpsichord, fortepiano)
- Ryan Brown (violin)
- Loretta O'Sullivan (violoncello)
Discography :
- Johann Schobert: The Sonatas, Op. 16 - ASV/Gaudeamus CD GAU 156 (Released in 1996.)
- Johann Schobert: The Sonatas, Opp. 5 & 6 - ASV/Gaudeamus CD GAU 172 (Released in 1998.)
- "The Rivals": works by Handel & Porpora - with Christine Brandes, soprano and Geoffrey Burgess,oboe - ASV/Gaudeamus CD GAU 192 (Released in 1999.)
- FJ Haydn: The Battle of the Nile, Keyboard Trios Nos.18 & 19, 2 Italian Duets, Andante with Variations, The Spirit's Song - with Ann Monoyios (soprano), Nils Brown (tenor) - ASV/Gaudeamus CD GAU 219 (Recorded in 2000. Released in 2001.)
- Antonio Caldara: Sonatas / Cantatas - with Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano - ASV/Gaudeamus CD GAU 347 (Released in 2004.)

Freiburger Barock-Consort

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : Members of Freiburger Barockorchester. (See previous entry.)
Contact information : ?
- Postal address :
  - Konradstraße 7
    D - 79100 Freiburg
    Germany
- Telephone : +49 (0) 761 / 70 65 55
- Fax : +49 (0) 761 / 70 65 57
- E-mail : F.B.O.@t-online.de
Home city/country : Freiburg, Germany
Members : (cumulative listing)
- Karl Kaiser (traverso)
- Petra Müllejans (violin)
- Daniela Helm (violin)
- Annette Schmidt (violetta)
- Ulrike Kaufmann (viol)
- Christa Kittel (viol)
- Kristin von der Golz (violoncello)
- Christian Goosses (viol)
- Hille Perl (viola da gamba, violone)
- Matthias Müller (violone)
- Lee Santana (lute, archlute, theorbe, chittarone)
- Torsten Johann (organ, harpsichord)
Discography :
- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (DHM)
  - H.I.Fr. Biber : Sonatae II,III,V,IX,XI from "Sonatae tam Aris, quam Aulis servientes"; G. Muffat : Sonatae II & V from "Armonico tributo..." - 05472-77303-2
  - H.I.Fr. Biber : Sonatae I,IV,VI,VII,VIII,X,XII from "Sonatae tam Aris, quam Aulis servientes" J.H. Schmeltzer: Sonate e Lamenti - 05472-77348-2
- Carus-Verlag (on-line orders available)
  - Georg Philipp Telemann : Quintetti d'archi e Partite per due liuti - 83.300 (Recorded in 1998. Released in 1998)
  - Antonio Bertali (1605-1669): Tausend Gülden - Sonaten von Habsburgischen Hof (Sonatas from the Habsburg Court) - 83.304 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2000.)
- Telemann: Paris Quartets Nos. 1-6 - Harmonia Mundi France HMC901787 (Recorded in 2002. Released in 2003. Reissued in 2007 as HMA1951787.)

Freiburger Barockorchester

Artistic director and Leader :
- Petra Müllejans
- Gottfried von der Goltz
- Thomas Hengelbrock was the leader up until 1993 and artistic director until 1997. He no longer works with the FBO.
Guest conductors : Trevor Pinnock, Gustav Leonhardt, Roy Goodman, Marcus Creed, René Jacobs, etc.
Year ensemble formed : 1985 as the ensemble "Hortus Musicus" (10 members)
Description : First performance was in 1987 under the new name: Freiburger Barockorchester.
WWW : http://www.barockorchester.de
Contact information : ?
- Postal address :
  - Konradstraße 7
    D - 79100 Freiburg
    Germany
- Telephone : +49 (0) 761 / 70 65 55
- Fax : +49 (0) 761 / 70 65 57
- E-mail : info@barockorchester.de
Home city/country : Freiburg, Germany
Discography :
- EMI
  - J.B. Bach : "Die Orchestersuiten" - CDC 7543092
  - J.L. Bach, Fasch, Telemann, Zelenka : "Suiten" - CDC 7543102
- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (DHM)
  - C.Ph.E. Bach : "3 Hamburger Sinfonien, Cembalokonzert c-moll" (A.Staier), Oboenkonzert Es-Dur (H.P. Westermann) - RD77187
  - Henry Purcell : "Instrumental Music" - works from The Fairy Queen, Dido and Aeneas, King Arthur, Abdelazer - 05472-77231-2
  - Locatelli : "6 Introduttioni Teatrali & Chamber-music" - 05472-77207-2
  - JS Bach / Vivaldi : "Overtures - Sinfonias - Concertos" - 05472-77289-2
  - Purcell : Dioclesian Suite & songs; Händel : Concerto grosso Op 6/6 and Cantata "Il duello amoroso" with Nancy Argenta and Michael Chance - 05472-77295-2
  - Telemann : "Suites (Overtures) - Concerto" - 05472-77321-2
  - Zelenka / Pisendel : "Concerti et al." - 05472-77339-2
  - Zavateri : "Concerti da chiesa e da camera" - 05472-77352-2 (2 CDs)
  - Astorga / Durante / Pergolesi : Stabat Mater, Magnificat, and Confitebor tibi Domine, respectively - Includes Ann Monoyios (soprano) and the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor - 05472-88369-2
  - JS Bach : Mass in B minor - with the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor - (2 CDs) 05472-77380-2
  - Vivaldi : The Four Seasons with Andrew Lawrence-King's The Harp Consort - 05472-77384-2
  - Telemann: "Concertos for viola da gamba" - with Hille Perl - Sony BMG/DHM SACD 88697025562 (Recorded in 2005. Released in 2006.)
- Harmonia mundi France
  - Handel : Ottone - HMU 907073.5 (3 CDs)
  - Handel : Radamisto - HMU 907111.13 (3 CDs)
  - Handel : Giustino - HMU 907130.32 (3 CDs)
  - Handel : Ariodante - HMU 907146.48 (3 CDs)
  - Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - with René Jacobs (conductor) HMC 901742/43 (2 CDs; Released in 2001.)
  - FJ Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6, 7 & 8 (Le Matin - Le Midi - Le Soir) - HMC 901767 (Recorded in 2001. Released in 2002.)
  - Handel: Rinaldo - HMC 901796.98 (3 CDs. Released in 2003.)
  - WA Mozart: Divertimenti (K136-138), Serenata notturna (K239) - HMC 901809 (Released in 2004. Reissued as HMX2961809)
  - "Cell Concertos": Works by FJ Haydn and Georg Matthias Monn (1717-50) - HMC 901816 (Released in 2004.)
  - FJ Haydn: Die Jahrzeiten (The Seasons) - with RIAS-Kammerchor, René Jacobs (conductor) - HMC 901829.30 (2 CDs); HMC 801829.30 (2 SACDs) (Recorded in 2003. Released in 2004.)
  - FJ Haydn: Keyboard Concertos Hob. XVIII 4, 6 & 11 - with Andreas Staier (fortepiano). HMC 901854 (Released in 2005.)
  - FJ Haydn: Symphonies 91 & 92 'Oxford'; I Scena di Berenice HOB. XXIVa:10* with *Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), René Jacobs (conductor). HMC 901849 (Released in 2005.)
  - WA Mozart: "1778: Mozart's Paris comeback". Concerto for flute and harp KV299, Symphonie Concertante KV297b, Symphony No. 31 'Paris' - HMC 901897 (Released in 2006.)
  - Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764): Concerti grossi op. 1 Nr. 2, 4,7-9, 11 - HMC 901889 (Recorded in 2005. Released in 2006.)
  - WA Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito - HMC 901923.24 (2 CDs); HMC 801923.24 (2 SACDs) (Recorded in 2005. Released in 2006.)
  - Handel: Messiah - with The Clare College Choir - René Jacobs (conductor) - HMC 901928.29 (2 CDs) - HMC 801928.29 (2 SACDs) (Recorded and released in 2006.)
  - WA Mozart: Symphonies 38 ('Prague') & 39 ('Jupiter') - René Jacobs (conductor) - HMC 901958 (Recorded in 2006. Released in 2007.)
  - "About Baroque -- Neue Kompositionen für das Freiburger Barockorchester": new compositions by Benjamin Schweitzer, Nadir Vassena, Michel van der Aa, Juliane Klein, Rebecca Saunders - HMC 905187-88 (2 CDs. Recorded in 2005. Released in 2007.)
  - WA Mozart: "Wind Concertos" - includes Horn Concertos No. 1 & 4; Bassoon & Oboe Concertos No. 191 & 314 - with Katharina Arfken, oboe; Donna Agrell, bassoon; Teunis van der Zwart, horn; Petra Müllejans, conductor - HMC 901946 (Released in 2007.)
  - WA Mozart: Don Giovanni - René Jacobs (conductor) - HMC 901964-66 (3 CDs); HMC801964-66 (3 SACDs) (Released in 2007.)
- Erato Disques
  - Handel : "Organ Concertos" - Op.4 Nos. 4, 2, 1 & Op. 7 Nos 1, 4 - with Marie-Claire Alain, Organ, 3984-25486-2 (Released in 1998)
- Carus-Verlag
  - Johann Georg Pisendel : Concerti con varii strumenti with Petra Müllejans and Gottfried von der Goltz (solo violins) - 83.301 (Recorded in 1998, Released in 1999)
  - JS Bach : Cantatas (BWV 82, 199, 1060) with Emma Kirkby - 83.302 (Released in 2000)
  - JS Bach : The Orchestral Suites - 83.303 (in preparation)
  - "Sons of JS Bach":
    - Vol 1: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-84): "Concerti"- Flute Concerto in D major; Harpsichord Concerto in E minor (F.43); Sinfonia in D minor (F.65) - Behringer (harpsichord), Hill (harpsichord) - 83.304 (Recorded and released in 2002.)
    - Vol 2: CPE Bach: Cello Concerto WQ 171; Oboe Concerto WQ164; Keyboard Concerto WQ47, Symphony WQ177 - 83.305 (Recorded in 2004. Released in 2005.)
  - Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741): "La Grandezza della Musica Imperiale" - 83.308 (Recorded and released in 2006.)
  - Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782): "Concerti" - 83.307 (Recorded in 2006. Released in 2007.)
- Astrée/Naïve
  - WA Mozart: Il sogno di Scipione (KV 126) - with Malin Hartelius, Lisa Larsson, Christine Brandes, Bruce Ford, Charles Workman, Jeremy Ovenden, Attilio Cremonesi, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre - E 8813 2cds (Recorded in 2000. Released in 2001)
  - WA Mozart: "Opera Arias" - with Sandrine Piau (soprano) - E8877 (Recorded in 2001. Released in 2002.)
- Opus 111/Naïve
  - Vivaldi: I Concerti di Dresda (RV192, 569, 574, 576, 577) OP30283 (Recorded and released in 2002.)

Freiburger Barocksolisten

Director : Günter Theis
Year ensemble formed : 1970s
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Freiburg, Germany
Discography :
- M.Haydn: Missa Sancti Hieronymi & Freiburger Domsingknaben, Raimund Hug (conductor) (includes: Albrechtsberger: Missa Assumptionis) - ARS MUSICI
- JS Bach: "Triosonaten in Urfassungen" (trio sonatas in orginal versions) - Christophorus
- Barocke Kammerkonzerte: works by Hertel, JS Bach, Telemann, Albinoni - with Hannes Läubin (trumpet) - Audite
- Neuburger Barockkonzerte (Animato label):
  - 1992: Vivaldi, Telemann, JS Bach, Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, JCF Bach, Mozart - NCD 1092
  - 1993: Telemann, JS Bach, Ignaz Franz von Beecke, Mozart - ACD 6003
  - 1994: Handel,Vivaldi, JS Bach, Süßmayr, Mozart - ACD 6010
  - 1995: Vivaldi, JS Bach, Kraus, Mozart - ACD 6015
  - 1996: Telemann, Handel, JS Bach, Hoffmeister, Mozart - ACD 6023
  - 1997: JS Bach, Telemann, Hasse, Mozart - ACD 6025
  - 1998: JS Bach: Orchestral suite Nr.2; Fasch: Sonata in D minor for 2 violins, viola, & bc; Mozart: Clarinet quintet (KV 581); Haydn: Lyra concerto Nr.4 - ACD 6042
  - 1999: Benda, JS Bach, Boccherini, Mozart - ACD 6050
  - 2000: JS Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nr.1; Amon: Quintet op.19, no. 3; Mozart: flute concerto Nr.1; Beethoven:Mozart -variationen for two oboes & English horn - ACD 6051
  - 2001: JS Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nr.1 & 2; Biber: Battalia for string & b.c.; Telemann: Concerto in G major for viola, strings, & b.c.; Mozart: Adagio & fugue (KV 404) - ACD 6059

Freiburger Spielleyt

Director : ?
Year ensemble formed : 1990
Description : Middle ages and renaissance
WWW : http://www.freiburger-spielleyt.de
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - Die Freiburger Spielleyt
    Paula-Hollenweger-Str. 9
    D-79379 Müllheim
    GERMANY
- Telephone : 07631-12364
- FAX : 07631-170555
- E-mail : info@freiburger-spielleyt.de
Home city/country : Freiburg, Germany

Freisinger Hofmusik

Director : ?
Year ensemble formed : ?
WWW : http://www.freisinger-hofmusik.de/
Contact information :
- E-mail: kontakt@freisinger-hofmusik.de
Home city/country : Germany
Core members :
- Hildegard Senninger (baroque violin & viola)
- Barbara Aichner (baroque violin & viola)
- Sabina Lehrman (viola da gamba)
- Walter Waidosch (viola da gamba)
- Sepp Hornsteiner (chitarrone)
- Stefan Baier (harpsichord)
Guest performers :
- Claudia Gerauer (recorder)
- Konrad Ruhland (viola da gamba)
- Helgard Fleck (viola da gamba)
- Egon Graf (bassoon)

Die Freitagsakademie

Director : Hans Gafner
Year ensemble formed : 1993 -- by Dupras, Suske, and Maurer
Description : An ensemble performing chamber works from the 18th Century. Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708-1763) founded the original "Freitagsakademien" (or Friday Concerts) in 1738 when he moved to Rheinsberg as part of the entourage of the future King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
WWW : http://www.freitagsakademie.ch
Contact information :
- E-mail: info@freitagsakademie.ch
Home city/country : Bern, Switzerland
Members :
- Louis Dupras (traverso)
- Katharina Louis Suske (oboe)
- Hélène Schmitt (violin)
- Roberto Falcone (violin, viola)
- Werner Saller (viola)
- Bernhard Maurer (violoncello)
- Armin Bereuter (viola da gamba, double bass)
- Jörg-Andreas Bötticher (harpsichord)
- Paolo Vignoli (tenor)
Discography :
- Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708-1763): "Kammermusik des 18. Jh. auf historischen Instrumenten" (sonatas and one cantata) - Relief CR 991070 (Recorded and released in 2000.)
- JS Bach: Concerti (BWV 1044, 1050, 1055, 1060) - ORF Alte Musik CD 287
- JS Bach: "Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten" (wedding cantatas) - with Susanne Rydén (soprano) - ORF Alte Musik CD 414

Fretwork

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1986
Description : A renowned and highly versatile consort of viols, specialise in music from the 16th and 17th centuries up to music of the present day. They have recorded widely for Virgin Classics and work often with soloists, such as the counter tenor Michael Chance. (See Fretwork Editions.)
WWW : http://www.fretwork.co.uk/
Home city/country : London, UK
Members: All members play viols with the exception of Christopher Wilson (lute).
- Richard Boothby
- Richard Campbell (E-mail : Richard@fretwork.demon.co.uk)
- Wendy Gillespie
- Julia Hodgson
- William Hunt
- Susanna Pell
- Christopher Wilson (lute)
  (Elizabeth Liddle (viol) has accompanied Fretwork.)
Discography : (Virgin Classics Veritas; Harmonia mundi)
- http://www.fretwork.co.uk/

Freundeskreis Alte Musik Berlin

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1994
Description : A non-professional ensemble of mixed voices and mixed instruments (violin, viola, cello, viola da gamba, trumpet, trombone, oboe, flute, lute and harpsichord) who specialize in Renaissance music by German and European composers.
WWW :
Contact information :
- Postal address : ?
- Telephone : ?
- FAX : ?
- E-mail : heindel@eMail.de
Home city/country : Berlin, Germany

Frideswide Consort

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : A recorder quartet.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : ?
Members:
- Caroline Kershaw
- Jane Downer
- Christine Garratt
- Jean McCreery
Discography :
- William Byrd: "Byrd Edition 1 - Early Latin Church Music" - with the Cardinall's Musick - ASV Gaudeamus CD GAU170

Friedemann Immer Natural Trumpet Ensemble
(See Trompeten-Consort Friedemann Immer.)

Friends' Recorder Consort

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1995
Description : The Friends’ Recorder Consort is part of The Friends' Musick -- a group of singers and instrumentalists associated with the Friends of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England. The Friends’ Recorder Consort also performs separately a wider repertoire of music spanning four centuries.
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - c/o Rose Atkinson
    28 Mount Pleasant
    Biggin Hill, Kent TN16 3TR
    UK
- Telephone : +44 (0)1959 575395
- FAX : +44 (0)1959 575395
- E-mail : frc@atkinson.clara.net (c/o Rose Atkinson)
Home city/country : London, UK
Members :
- Rose Atkinson
- Paula Campbell
- Maureen Heath
- Paul Mitchell
- Pauline Quinton
Discography :
- “We will all the Pleasures Prove” 1995 (with The Friends’ Musick)

The Frolick

Directors : Emma Curtis (contralto) & Andrew Maginley (baroque lute & guitar, theorbo)
Year ensemble formed : ?
WWW : http://www.thefrolick.com
Description : Frolick seeks to breathe life and fun into the neglected chamber, opera and theatre music of the late 17th and 18th Centuries.
Contact information :
- Postal address : ?
- Telephone : +44 7768 878764 (c/o Curtis)
- FAX : ?
- E-mail : info@thefrolick.com
Home city/country : London, UK
Members :
- Emma Curtis (contralto)
- Andrew Maginley (baroque lute & guitar, theorbo)
- Markus Möllenbeck (baroque violoncello)
- Muriel Bardon (baroque violin)
- Annie Laflamme (traverso)
- Giovanna Pessi (baroque harp)
Discography :
- CALLIOPE, Beautiful Voice - Volume the First: English Songbooks of the 1700s - With songs by Arcangello Corelli 1653-1713, Henry Purcell 1659-1695, Sir John Vanbrugh 1664-1726, Handel 1685-1759, Allan Ramsay 1686-1758, John Ernest Galliard 1687-1749, Francesco Geminiani 1687-1762, Henry Carey c1690-1743, Henry Holcombe c1693-c1752, Dr. Maurice Green 1696-1755, John Frederick Lampe c1703-1751, Giovanni Battista Pescetti c1704-c1766, David Digard d.1745, George Monro d.1731, William Boyce 1710-1779, Thomas Arne 1710-1778, Jonathan Martin 1715-1737, Henry Burgess fl. 1738-65, Mr. Bowman, Seignr Anglosini and Signor Anonimo - Avie Records AV2102 (Released in 2006.)

Frottola

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1991
WWW : http://www.btinternet.com/~jennie.cassidy/
Contact information :
- E-mail: frottola@btinternet.com
Home city/country : UK
Members:
- Jennie Cassidy (voice)
- Jacob Herringman (lutes)
- Richard Campbell (bass viol)
Discography :
- ‘The French Ambassadors": Meridian CDE 84397

Il Fuggilotio

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1989
Description : Performance repertoire ranges from the more noted instrumental pieces of the 17th and 18th centuries to the discovery of unpublished and unevaluated works. The members studied within the Early Music Section of the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan.
Contact information : ?
Home city/country : Milan, Italy
Members : (cumulative)
- Mario Lacchini (traverso)
- Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi (traverso)
- Claudia Combs (violin)
- Giulia Panzeri (violin)
- Claudio Frigerio (violoncello)
- Rodney Sevilla Prada (violoncello)
- Marco Dal Bianco (violoncello)
- Gabriele Palombo (theorbe)
- Isidoro Taccagni (harpsichord)
Discography :
- Giambattista Cirri (1724-1808) : Six Sonatas Op. IX to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland - Stradivarius Dulcimer - STR 33358
- Georg Philipp Telemann: "Six Quatours à deux flûtes" - Stradivarius Dulcimer - STR 33411 (Recorded in 1997. Released in 1999)

Full Circle

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1998
Description : A classical string quartet. Performances of classical and early romantic string quartets on period instruments.
WWW : http://www.gdclarke.btinternet.co.uk/fullcircle.htm
Performance management :
- Mostylea Music Management
  Grange Cottage, Grange Road
  Knightley, Stafford ST20 0JX
  UNITED KINGDOM
- Tele/Fax: (00 44) 785 284433
- E-mail: gdc@mostyleamusic.co.uk
Home city/country : UK
Members :
- David Lewis (violin)
- Garry Clarke (violin)
- David Brooker (viola)
- Melanie Woodcock (violoncello)

Fuoco e Cenere ("Fire and Ash")

Artistic Director : Jay Bernfeld (viola da gamba)
Year ensemble formed : ?
Description : "Fabulous and eternal, the phoenix is the inspiration of this ensemble dedicated to magic and drama in music. Guided by Jay Bernfeld, the viola da gamba is the pulse of the ensemble, frequently joined by recorders, lutes, and harp, and almost always in the company of remarkable singers."
WWW : http://www.fuocoecenere.org
Contact information :
- Postal address:
  - c/o Jay Bernfeld
    55 rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire
    75005 Paris
    FRANCE
- Tel: +331 43 36 57 86
- E-mail: info@fuocoecenere.org
Home city/country : Paris, France
Discography :
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755): "Suites, Sonatas and Concerto for Viola da Gamba" - OGAM Records 488002-2 (2002)
- "Fantasy in Blue": Purcell, Gershwin - with Shaham Rinat (soprano) - ATMA Classique ACD22253
- "Gentil mia donna" - Arion (2004)
- Benedetto Marcello: Salmi di Davide - with Rinat Shaham (soprano) - ATMA Classique ACD22233 (2004)
- Louis de Caix d'Hervelois (before 1680-1759): "Pieces de Viole" - Arion ARN68694 (Released in 2005.)
- "Canta Napoli - 400 ans de chansons Napolitaines" - with Mathieu Abelli (tenor) - Arion (Released in 2006.)

I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble

Director : none
Year ensemble formed : 1999
WWW : http://www.ifuriosi.com/
Contact information :
- Postal address :
  - 73 Springmount Avenue
    Toronto ON M6H 2Y5
    CANADA
- Telephone : 416.652.5483 or 416.252.8740
- FAX : 416.252.2833
- E-mail : ifuriosi@ifuriosi.com
Home city/country : Toronto, Canada
Members :
- Current:
  - Gabrielle McLaughlin (soprano)
  - Aisslinn Nosky (violin)
  - Julia Wedman (violin)
  - Felicity Deak (violoncello & viola da gamba)
- Past:
  - Kathleen Kajioka (viola)
Discography :
- "Defiled is my (middle) name"

Fairy Consort

Falsobordone

Famuli Musicae

Fanfare Consort

La Fantasia

Farallon Recorder Quartet

Les Favorites

Les Favorites

La Favoritte

I Febi Armonici

I Febiarmonici

La Fenice

Ferrara Ensemble

Festa Rustica

Les Festes d'Orphée

Les Festes Vénitiennes

Festetics Quartet (See Quatour Festetics.)

Festetics Vonósnégyes (See Quatour Festetics.)

Festina Lente

Fiati con Tasto Köln

Fiati Virtuosi

La Fidelissima

Les Filles de Sainte-Colombe

I Filomusi

Fiori Musicale

Fiori Musicali

Fiori Musicali

I Fiori Musicali

Fires of Love

Fitzwilliam String Quartet

Les Flamboyants

Flanders Recorder Quartet (See Vier Op'n Rij.)

Flautando Köln

flauto con bassi

Flauto Dolce

The Flautodors

Florata (See Ensemble Florata.)

Florilegia

Florilegio Ensemble

Florilegium

Florilegium Musicum Rotterdam

The Flute Consort

Les flûtes d'Alleman

Folger Consort

Les Folies françoises

La Folia

La Folia

La Follia--Austin Baroque

La Follia Salzburg

Il Fondamento

Fons Amoris

Fons Musicae

La Fontaine

Fontana Musica -- disbanded

La Fontegara

La Fontegara Amsterdam

The Forbury Consort

Fortepianotrio Florestan

Fortuna

Fortune

Fortune's Wheel

Fort Worth Early Music (See Texas Camerata.)

Foscarina

Foundling Baroque Orchestra

Four Nations Ensemble

Freiburger Barock-Consort

Freiburger Barockorchester

Freiburger Barocksolisten

Freiburger Spielleyt

Freisinger Hofmusik

Die Freitagsakademie

Fretwork

Freundeskreis Alte Musik Berlin

Frideswide Consort

Friedemann Immer Natural Trumpet Ensemble (See Trompeten-Consort Friedemann Immer.)

Friends' Recorder Consort

The Frolick

Frottola

Il Fuggilotio

Full Circle

Festetics Quartet
(See Quatour Festetics.)

Festetics Vonósnégyes
(See Quatour Festetics.)

Flanders Recorder Quartet
(See Vier Op'n Rij.)

Florata
(See Ensemble Florata.)

Fort Worth Early Music
(See Texas Camerata.)

Friedemann Immer Natural Trumpet Ensemble
(See Trompeten-Consort Friedemann Immer.)