06.12.2009
and music, and a word...
Alexey Parin, Radio "Orfeus", 99.2FM
...the program was performed absolutely  excellently...
...the concert worthy  opening only worthy festival...
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06.12.2009
Lev Malhazov, "Radio Russia"
...I would like to say that the orchestra had on me much bigger impression than soloists...
...there were many bright, interesting surprises during concert... Telemann orchestra Suit A minor and Telemann concert E minor for violin and flute - are absolutely masterpieces...this music seemed like was playing from opera stage, because a completely amazing images were coming to life in that music...and I might say that the biggest impression from the whole concert had on me the performance of those two pieces...
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27.09.2009
Territory of Music
100th - program release about festival of Early Music in Saint Petersburg on the 100TB channel.
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25.09.2009
"Grass, don't grow!"
Dmitry Renanskiy. Kommersant
Pratum Integrum Orchestra has performed "Big baroque concert" at the Earlymusic Festival in Saint Petersburg. For Dmitry Renanskiy two and a half hours of music was not enough.
....the whole evening I was trying hard, without any success, to remember the time when such wise and delicate performance has ever been heard from either of two Philharmonic stages.... Seven year old Orchestra, Pratum Integrum, already today sounds way more intelligent and cultural than all, without exceptions, big academic orchestras in both capitals...
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02.02.2009
Storslagent (‘Magnificent’)
Eivin Bonen ‘Nordlys’, 02.02.2009 review of Pratum Integrum concert at the Northern Lights classical music festival (Nordlysfestivalen) in Tromso, Norway, 31.01.09.
World-class ensemble Pratum Integrum played a fabulous concert with talented flautist Paul Wahlberg. We waited a long time to hear these musicians, but their performance showed our anticipation was fully justified. From the opening notes of Maxim Berezovsky’s first Russian symphony the orchestra played with electrifying energy and suspense. Pratum Integrum presents a contemporary, up-to-date interpretation of baroque music that is fascinating to hear. All the musicians have achieved a high level of technical mastery and revel in appearing on the concert stage.
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10.04.2008
Resurrection of ‘Requiem’
Sergei Khodnev, KOMMERSANT ¹ 204(4021), 11.11.2008
One and the same composition was performed in three concerts held at the Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow – Mozart’s ‘Requiem’. Three times the celebrated mass for the dead was played in a rather unexpected form: instead of the more familiar ‘Requiem’ the musicians used various alternative interpretations devised at different periods. Their aim was to recreate the initial concept of Mozart’s final chef d’oeuvre, left unfinished at his death. Pavel Serbin and his orchestra Pratum Integrum’s presentation of the ‘Requiem’ was attended by SERGEI KHODNEV.
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21.08.2008
Telemann at Polenovo
Pyotr Pospelov, OpenSpace.ru site
Summer brings musical impressions too: I recently had the opportunity to attend the Pratum Integrum orchestra’s concert at Polenovo. You might think 18th-century German baroque and the Russian country estate as we usually perceive it had little in common. But this Telemann sounded like something Polenov himself might have listened to with a large company of friends and family, since the concert was played in the drawing room of the family mansion.
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10.04.2008
Bach explained in pantomime // ‘St. John Passion’ at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Sergei Khodnev, KOMMERSANT ¹ 60(3877), 10.04.2008
Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ was played on three successive evenings at the Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. It was performed by the Moscow orchestra Pratum Integrum and the cathedral’s own chamber choir, but the conductor and leading soloists were guest artists from Germany and the event had all the appearance of a stage spectacle. For this reason SERGEI KHODNEV had difficulty retaining his impassivity.
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6.04.2008
The sun went into mourning
Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ stuns Moscow music lovers
Yan Smirnitsky, MK.RU, 06.04.2008
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February 2008
‘Telemann in Major’, ‘Telemann in Minor’
Giancarlo Bernacchi, ‘Musica’ magazine, Italy
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September-October 2006
‘Rebel’
Robert Strobl, ‘Toccata-Alte Musik aktuell’ magazine, Germany
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6.06.2007
Handel mezza voce // Paul Esswood closes the ‘Antiquarium’ festival
Sergei Khodnev, KOMMERSANT ¹ 97 (¹ 3673), 06.06.2007
The final event of the ‘Antiquarium’ early music festival was held at the School of Dramatic Art theatre. Moscow orchestra Pratum Integrum played with legendary English countertenor Paul Esswood as singer and conductor. SERGEI KHODNEV listened to Georg Friedrich Handel’s music.
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July-August 2006
Ein Gesamtkunstwerk – Die 22. TAGE ALTER MUSIK Regensburg 2006
Robert Strobl, ‘Toccata-Alte Musik aktuell’ magazine, Germany
The orchestra participated in the Tage Alter Music festival (Regensburg, Germany)
Fragments of the festival review, in German

25.07.06
Novelties in early music
Sergei Hodnev, Kommersant
"True value enthusiasm, each musician's distinguishable individual talents
- all that definitely created the very best impression"

01.03.06
The time before Mozart edited his work
Leonid Gvozdev, Moskovskaya Pravda
"Believe me, it is hard to find the words that can describe the effect that this
music leaves... all I know is that it was uncommon and marvelous!"

17.01.06
Discovering Euridice
Dmitryia Abaulin, Russian Newspaper
The conclusive input to the success of the project belongs to Pratum Integrum orchestra. A little bit subdued sound of historical instruments determined aesthetics of the performance. Intensity of feelings instead of noisiness, precision of inflexions – these best features of authentic style were wonderfully handled by native orchestra.

17.01.06 Opera “Orfeo ed Euridice” in Moscow again Marina Gaikovich, «Nesavisimaya Gazeta»
The charm of Gluk’s opera acquire new colors past Sunday: the performance surprisingly was very successful. In fact, a very successful team got together: Pratum Integrum orchestra, Moscow Conservatory Chamber Choir, amazing soloists (Deborah York, Anna Bonitatibus, Lydia Teuscher) lead by conductor Theodor Curentzis.

January, 2006
Walks in “unmown meadow”
Filipp Lebed, “Russian Bulletin”
This orchestra revives glory of Russian music with professionalism and love for their work.

27.09.05
“Measuring with bows”
Sergei Khodnev, "Kommersant"
(Author comparing performance of Kremlin orchestra and Pratum Integrum orchestra)
Pratum Integrum had much more clearer, sharper and intense sound. Further features are easy to spot: more detailed and studied observation of phrasing, more vivid and strong feel of orchestra, live and fascinating energy. Pratum Integrum presented their best –there is no one else who can perform instrumental baroque music so infatuated, fiery, sparkling, craftly and wittily like Pratum Integrum orchestra.

July-August 2005
"Ein Gesamtkunstwerk – Die 22. TAGE ALTER MUSIK Regensburg 2006"
Robert Strobl, "Toccata-Alte Musik aktuell", Germany
Pratum Integrum have participated the famous Tage Alter Music Fesitival in Regensburg
Full text is available in German

January 2006
Der böhmische Meuterer
Robert Strobl, "Toccata-Alte Musik aktuell", Germany
Review of the disc "A. Rosetti. Bohemian Mutineer".
Full text is available in German

May 2005
"Die Russen sind da"
Robert Strobl, "Toccata-Alte Musik aktuell", Germany
"Telemann in Minor" is rated as "CD des Monats" (CD of the Month).
Full text is available in German

"Classics Today" published review on "Dmitry Bortnyansky. The Russian Album"
We've got 8/9 (artistic/sound quality) of 10/10 possible!
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Reviews of our SACDs on the "Audiophile Audition" site
Dmitry Bortnaynsky. The Italian Album
Dmitry Bortnaynsky. The Russian Album
MAXIM BEREZOVSKY. SECULAR MUSIC
Anton Ferdinand Tietz. INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN. "Telemann in Minor"

Reviews (in German) of our SACDs on the "Musik an sich" site
MAXIM BEREZOVSKY. SECULAR MUSIC
Anton Ferdinand Tietz. INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

19.04.05
Pratum Integrum has closed the season
Sergei Khodnev, "Kommersant"
While performing Georg Muffat, splendidly sounding orchestra has perfectly created the etalon proportions of the Suite in French style. And Brandenburg Concerto has once more demonstrated that there are no common places and routine when these musicians are playing popular hits.
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16.06.04
Trevor Pinnock: Music should not be a kind of something dusty…
Ilya Kukharenko, "Izvestia"
A famous Englishman Trevor Pinnock played in a recital in Rachmaninov's Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory. Pinnock, a leading exponent of Early Music performing on historical instruments, accepted the offer to conduct a Russian team - Pratum Integrum Orchestra.
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16.06.2004
Prophets Are Being Delivered to the Motherland
Pyotr Pospelov, "Vedomosti", ¹102 (1142)
…The young Moscow Pratum Integrum Orchestra impetuously turns out a leader in the field of Early Music authentic performance. The musicians finished their 2003/2004 season by the joint recital performed together with Trevor Pinnock , the celebrated British conductor and harpsichordist, a Baroque specialist of international distinction…

10.06.2004
"Great Baroque Concert"
Michael Fikhtengoltz, "Afisha" site
If you have to explain to a man unfamiliar with a term "authentic music" what it means, you'd better get him acquainted with Mr. Trevor Pinnock…
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16.05.2004
Discography : Maxim Berezovsky's Secular Music
Natalia Solovieva, Russia Musical Newspaper ¹ 44, 2004
…The manuscripts by Maxim Berezovsky, one of the first Russian professional composers, kept abroad in private and state archives have been performed and recorded at last. Thus, new unknown pages of Berezovsky's creative work were discovered thanks to the initiative of Pratum Integrum Orchestra and, particularly of its' artistic director Pavel Serbin…

09.04.04
Classical Recitals of the Week
Kommersant "Weekend" ¹64 (2903)
…April 15 in MIPAC Chamber Hall one more A.F. Tietz recital will be performed…

8.04.2004
Harmony of "Sturm und Drung"
Irina Muravieva, "Russia" ¹685
The Fifth International Festival of chamber music was carried out by Alexander Rudin in State Tretyakov Gallery. This festival has already become one of the most curious and fascinating in Moscow concert life…
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26.03.04
Classical Recitals of the Week
Kommersant "Weekend" ¹54(2893)
… March 27 within the bounds of the same festival another A.F. Tietz chamber music will be performed by Moscow Pratum Integrum Orchestra (Artistic Director Pavel Serbin, cello), an ambitious, promising team of young musicians. Their approach to the programme (music by the Russian composer Tietz and Italian-French Boccherini to be compared) makes a forthcoming concert a peculiar and even a dramatic one…

16.03.04
Pavel Serbin: "The Struggle for the Opera Was the Struggle for the State Contract"
Ekaterina Biryukova, "Izvestia"
Two new Pratum Integrun albums burnt just now are above the vanguard. First of all they were recorded in a very new format for Russia - SACD. And they contain the works of the first Russian professional composers - Maxim Berezovsky and Dmitry Bortnyansky…
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15.03.2004
Three centuries in One Week
Pyotr Pospelov, "Vedomosti"
…Let's speak about Pratum Integrum Orchestra first of all. Young musicians, Early music enthusiasts have gathered together in a team promoted by patrons of art who had studied music and who haven't stopped loving it. Now Pratum Integrum ("unmown medow" in Latin) has a permanent staff of a dozen players and a financial support by Essential Music company…
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12.03.2004
"Dmitry Bortnyansky. The Italian Album". Pratum Integrum (Caro Mitis)
Kommersant Weekend ¹ 44
Dmity Bortnyansky (1751 - 1825) wrote a lot of magnificent ecclesiastic works… But before he was appointed the Director of the Court Capella, Bortnyansky had spent 10 years in Italy adopting the style of the best European composers...

January 2004
The New Orchestra
"Filarmonik" ¹ 4/2003
The new Early Music orchestra was set up this year in Moscow. The new group unites Russia's best performers of Early music who play on authentic historical instruments…

11.09.2003
A New Symphony from the Eighteenth Century
Eugeniya Krivitzkaya, "Kultura" ¹35 2003
Within the festival "Sheremetev's Seasons" unknown works by Maxim Berezovsky were presented in the recital in Ostankino memorial estate. This composer of the 18th century is noted due to his magnificent ecclesiastical music…
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20.08.2003
We and the Culture
Tatiana Lomidze, "NewsInfo.ru" site
The life of Berezovsky was as interesting and thrilling as his creative work. He died in his early thirties but he had time to feel joy of triumph and to suffer bitterness of a loss…
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19.08.2003
To Perform Everything
Sergei Khachaturov, "grammy.ru" site
This memorable event happened … in the ancient theater of Ostankino memorial estate belonged to Count Nikolai Sheremetev… Berezovsky's secular heritage is rather small and the recital lasted less than two hours...
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17.08.2003
The Student From Bologna
Ekaterina Biryukova, "Izvestia"
The First Russian Symphony was played in Ostankino.
Within the bounds of the " Sheremetiev's Seasons in Ostankino" festival Moscow Pratum Integrum Orchestra (Artistic Director Pavel Serbin) performed the works by Maxim Berezovsky, one of the first professional Russian composers…
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16.08.2003
The music by the forgotten composer was played in Ostankino
TV-channel "Kultura"
The name of Maxim Berezovsky, a brilliant Russian composer of the XVIII century, was known abroad mush better than in his Motherland...
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16.08.2003
Secular Works by Maxim Berezovsky (1745 - 1777)
Ekaterina Biryukova, "Afisha.ru" site
During the annual festival "Sheremetiev's Seasons in Ostankino" the ensemble of young talented authentists - Pratum Integrum Orchestra - gave the concert of secular works by Maxim Berezovsky, one of the first Russian professional composers.
Pratum Integrum came to popularity be performing refined masterly music and rapidly gained a reputation for the repertoire…
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4.08.2003
"Maxim Berezovsky's Secular Works".
"Afisha.ru" site
The conductor Teodor Currentzis and Pratum Integrum Orchestra on historical instruments are to perform on August 16 the works by one of the famous professional Russian composer…
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