Orfeus Barock Stockholm is the debut album of a Swedish group that goes by the same name. The fantastic new release contains pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach and his second son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

Orfeus Barock Stockholm was founded in 2015 by some baroque loving members of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and has grown to be an important part of the music life of Stockholm and a meeting point for some of the leading baroque musicians of Sweden. Performing on period instruments, the group’s repertoire ranges from the early 17th century to masterpieces by Handel, Bach and Vivaldi, yet a special focus lies in bringing forth less-known masters, such as composers included in the so-called Düben-collection.

Orfeus Barock Stockholm, with cellist Johannes Rostamo as artistic director and Elin Gabrielsson as concertmaster, collaborates with guest leaders such as Manfredo Kramer, Alfredo Bernardini, Dan Laurin, Peter Spissky, Luca Guglielmi, Göran Karlsson and Mariangiola Martello, and with soloists such as singers Anders J. Dahlin and Kristina Hammarström. OBS has its home in the beautiful Grünewaldsalen at Konserthuset in Stockholm where it has had its own series since 2019.

Finnish cellist Johannes Rostamo (b. 1980) is a versatile musician and interested in all forms of musical communication. In recent years he has been specializing in early music and the historically informed interpretation, leading to the founding of the Orfeus Barock Stockholm in 2015. Together with Orfeus and their fantastic audience he studies and widens his knowledge of various styles of the baroque era. As a teacher Johannes tries to share all that he has learned at the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm and the RSPO Orchestra Academy.

Luca Guglielmi (b. 1977) is an Italian conductor, composer, soloist of historical keyboard instruments (harpsichord, organ, clavichord, fortepiano) and musicologist, renowned for his historically informed interpretations of music of all periods, his wide repertoire from Gesualdo to Stravinsky, and his strong commitment to the study and application of phenomenology of music. Luca Guglielmi is professor of harpsichord, fortepiano and chamber music at ESMUC (Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya) in Barcelona.

During the past fifteen years, Swedish baroque violinist Elin Gabrielsson has had an extremely active career. After taking her advanced master on modern violin at the ‘Royal College of Music’ in Stockholm, Elin left Sweden to specialize in baroque violin in Italy and in Holland. She moved back in 2015 and she is in great demand also in her home-country performing as a soloist and as concert-master in various venues and early music groups in Stockholm.