concerts were sold out. The ensemble is scheduled to make its Carnegie Hall debut on March 22, 2018, and that concert is already sold out as of August 2017. In its hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Apollo's Fire has been unusually successful in building a large, grassroots audience, thanks to creative programming and the group's animated performance style. In the 2016-17 season the ensemble sold over 15,000 tickets at its home series. Recordings Apollo's Fire won a GRAMMY Award in 2019. The ensemble has released 26 commercial CDs, mostly on British label AVIE. Eight of the ensemble's CD releases have become best-sellers on the classical Billboard chart: the Claudio Monteverdi Vespers, J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos & Harpsichord Concertos, a disc of G.F. Handel arias with soprano Amanda Forsythe titled The Power of Love (Billboard Classical #3, 2015), and Jeannette Sorrell's four crossover programs: Come to the River – An Early American Gathering (Billboard Classical #9, 2011); Sacrum Mysterium: A Celtic Christmas Vespers (Billboard Classical #11, 2012); Sugarloaf Mountain – An Appalachian Gathering (Billboard Classical #5, 2015); and Sephardic Journey – Wanderings of the Spanish Jews (Billboard World Music Chart #2 and Billboard Classical #5, Feb. 2016). In 2016, the album Sephardic Journey was praised by BBC Music Magazine as "revelatory… convivially theatrical… The soloists and instrumentalists are first-class, and Sorrell's arrangements are full of zip and colour" and Sorrell's work was favorably compared to that of Jordi Savall. In 2019, Apollo's Fire won a GRAMMY, shared with singer Karim Sulayman and conductor Jeannette Sorrell, for the 2018 album Songs of Orpheus. Other recordings include Bach's St. John Passion; Michael Praetorius's Christmas Vespers (compiled and edited by Jeannette Sorrell); Antonio Vivaldi's La Folia (Madness) and Other Concertos; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem (with a new completion of the unfinished Lacrimosa, by René Schiffer); Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (with a reconstruction of the lost Bacchanale ending by René Schiffer); Handel's Dixit Dominus and Coronation Anthems; G.P. Telemann's Don Quixote and other suites and concertos; and albums of Mozart symphonies and concertos. References External links Official Home Page videos Musical groups from Cleveland Musical groups established in 1992 Early music orchestras Orchestras based in Ohio 1992 establishments in Ohio