NEWS AND LINK: Musica Angelica's Martin Haselböck wins Grand Prix International du Disque award

By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily News

Martin Haselböck, music director of Musica Angelica — the top-notch Los Angeles-based period instrument ensemble — has been named winner of the Grand Prix International du Disque award for a recording he made with his other ensemble, the Vienna Academy Orchestra, entitled The Sound of Weimar: Franz Liszt; The Complete Works for Orchestra, Vol. 1. Haselböck will receive the award in Budapest on Oct. 25.

The recording — which also features the Chorus Sine Nomine) includes Liszt’s Dante Symphony and A la Chapelle Sixtine (Miserere d'Allegri et Ave verum corpus de Mozart — was released last year. Volume 2 was released earlier this month and comes during the bicentennial of Liszt’s birth on Oct. 22. Both recordings were made in the Liszt-Centre in Raiding, Austria; the orchestra of about 50 uses original instruments of the 19th century.

Haselböck, who is also a renowned organist, became Musica Angelica’s music director in 2005. That group opens its 2011-2012 season on Sept. 24 and 25 when the ensemble’s concertmaster, Ilia Korol, joins Natalia Grigorieva (performing on an 1829 Broadwood fortepiano) in sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert. (LINK).

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