New season 2025-2026
O18c proudly presents season 2025/2026; a varied and diverse season with music from the baroque to the present, with new and old partners. A season in which the orchestra tells stories from the past for an audience of today, throughout the Netherlands and beyond. Where the musicians explore newly discovered and newly written repertoire, as well as beloved [...]
O18c live on Dutch radio
Tonight in Rotterdam we play our second concert in the tour with Theotime Langlois de Swarte "Mozart in Paris. A wonderful program starring Mozart and Joseph Bologne. Music you may never have heard before. Music that in any case creates an interesting context to Mozart's masterpieces. On Feb. 13, [...]
La fedeltà premiata premiered Jan. 17
Our new production with Dutch National Opera Academy, La fedeltà premiata, premieres Friday, Jan. 17, at Amare in The Hague. Sunday is already sold out, but a few tickets are still available for Friday and Saturday. After that, the production will go on a short tour of the Netherlands to Leiden (Jan. 21), Haarlem (Jan. 22) and [...].
Tour with Lucie Horsch great success
The tour that the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century had from Nov. 29 - Dec. 8 with recorder player Lucie Horsch was a huge success. sold-out venues and extremely enthusiastic audiences. More than 3500 people attended the concert in Eisenstadt, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Leiden, Groningen, Middelburg and Breda. For those who were not able to [...]
Requiem tour nearly sold out
Yesterday our tour with Cappella Amsterdam kicked off in Utrecht. Almost all venues are sold out and audiences and press are enthusiastic. Concertmaster Alexander Janiczek "likes to serve Mozart's most dramatic moments with a generous spoonful of gravy, but he keeps the overall sound transparent throughout." (NRC) We play the first movement, before intermission, without a conductor under [...].
New album with Lucie Horsch - November 8, 2024
On Nov. 8, 2024, Decca will launch a new album by Lucie Horsch. The album is the result of a long-running project, during which Lucie played several of Frans Brüggen's historical instruments. On the album, she plays music from the 17th and 18th centuries on 14 different of his recorders. A taste of the [...]
Performing Arts Fund honors full application O18c
On July 3, 2024 the news came out that the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century can once again count on the support of the Performing Arts Fund from 2025 - 2028. For the first time, the orchestra has applied in category III. We are extremely pleased that we can now move forward into the future full of good [...].
A busy month
From the beginning of March, the orchestra has been on tour nonstop. First with our annual educational project Side by Side, then on to Japan for five concerts with laureates of the Chopin Competition in Poland, on to Paris, Switzerland and the Netherlands for the St. John Passion, and finally a great Beethoven concert at the Heidelberger Fruhling [...].
O18c joins Intrada
We are extremely proud to be affiliated with Intrada since this year! Intrada is a one-year European musician development program run by four partner ensembles: Concerto Copenhagen, Dunedin Consort, B'Rock Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. A handful of talented young musicians from Europe are brought together through open [...]
CPE Bach 'Hamburg symphonies' editor's choice by Gramophone
Our new CD of CPE Bach's hamburg symphonies was featured in the Editor's choice section of Gramophone magazine in January! "Janiczek and his 24-strong band are also closely attuned to the inwardness and precarious lyricism of the slow movements. Never was the veneer of innocence more deceptive than in No. 4's Largo ed [....]