Jorg Faerber

Tainted by a long association with a budget label, Jörg Faerber was too often wrongly assumed to be just another workaday German conductor leading his orchestra in routine sight-reading sessions. In truth, Faerber distinguished himself as a perceptive interpreter of Baroque and other music, although not in a historically informed style. Faerber studied at the Hochschule für Musik in his native Stuttgart, then began conducting theater orchestras in that city. In 1960 he founded the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra in Heilbronn, with which he remained for more than 40 years. He qu...