Pratum Integrum Orchestra

The Pratum Integrum orchestra performs with authentic instruments. The Latin name translates as ‘unmown meadow’ and refers to their broad-ranging repertoire from the Baroque and Classical periods, about which little is known to this day. This is the only orchestra in Russia in which all the groups of historic instruments are represented: strings, wind and percussion, and moreover all the instruments were made in the 18th to 19th centuries or copied from period examples. Pratum Integrum’s performances are a careful recreation using original treatises, primary sources and eye-witness accounts by contemporaries.

The orchestra was established in Moscow in 2003, immediately gaining a reputation as an extraordinary, outstanding and highly professional group of musicians with a predilection for fast tempos and vivid, fresh interpretations. Since then the orchestra has played more than 300 compositions for the Russian public, among them recently discovered pieces by Russian composers, once performed in the imperial court concerts; French music, which delighted Louis XIV and Louis XV; overtures by Telemann, which were very popular throughout Germany in the 18th century, music of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven’s  contemporaries.

Using authentic performance techniques, Pratum Integrum has played concerts with leading European musicians and specialists in the field: Trevor Pinnock (UK), Sigiswald and Wieland Kuijken (Belgium), Alfredo Bernardini (Italy), Paul Esswood (UK), Simone Kermes (Germany), Christophe Rousset (France), Philippe Jaroussky (France), Paolo Grazzi (Italy), Pierre Hantai (France), Claire Lefilietre (France), Simone Kermes (Germany) and others.
Pratum Integrum has participated in several prominent international festivals such as Tage Alter Music (Regensburg; 2006), Musica Antiqua (Bruges; 2006), Nordlysfestivalen (Tromsø; 2009, 2011), Earlymusic (St Petersburg; 2009–2014), Dekabrskie Vechera (Moscow; 2009-2012), G.Ph.Telemann International Festival (Magdeburg; 2010), Utrecht Festival Oudemuziek (2013), Tage Alte Music WDR (Herne, 2013), Silbermann Fesispiele (Freiberg, 2013) and others.

The orchestra has recorded more than fifteen albums for the Caro Mitis label. Among them are monographic albums featuring names known only by music scholars until recently: Tietz, Rosetti, Wölfl and Platti, Haessler. Most of these albums have been highly rated by important foreign music magazines (Diapason, Toccata-Alte Musik aktuell, Le Monde de la Musique, Positive Feedback Online and others).