Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century Alexander Janiczek, conductor Ilse Eerens, soprano
»Scena di Berenice«
Joseph Haydn: Scena di Berenice Jean-Fery Rebel: Les Éléments
Alternative programe: Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 6 in D major “Le Matin” Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 7 in C major “Le Midi” Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 8 in G major “Le Soir” Jean-Fery Rebel: Les Éléments
Chaarts Chamber Artists with Anna-Maria and Malte Arkona, acting
»A midsummer night’s dream«
Shakespeare’s legendary stage play combined with Mendelssohn’s playful incidental music – an evening to dream about. Anna-Maria Arkona had imagined a romantic evening for two differently. Instead of taking her out to dinner, Malte tells her that he has unfortunately mixed up his schedule and now has to go to a performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Before she knows it, Anna is on her way with Malte to the scene of the old, but always new, comedy of errors in ancient Athens. Anna, like probably all of us, still roughly remembers the story of two pairs of lovers who get caught up in the marital quarrel of a pair of elves and, thanks to magic flowers, at some point no longer know who they actually love. But how exactly the four different storylines are connected and how many characters there really are, she doesn’t really know any more. Malte rushes to her aid and assigns each character a matching headdress for better recognition. In a game of “changing trees”, the two of them move through Shakespeare’s world and tell his story in their own words. But Anna and Malte are not alone for long. The CHAARTS ensemble accompanies them musically through the story and accompanies the action with appropriate music written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. The highlight of the musical journey is the world-famous wedding march at the end of the story for the solemn marriage of all loving couples.
Freiburger Barockorchester with Valer Sabadus, soprano / Terry Wey, alto
N.Fiorenza: Concerto in D major N. Porpora: Crimen adae quantum constat F. Durante: Concerto in C major N.N.:(tbc) G. B. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F minor P. 77
B’Rock Orchestra with Antoine Tamestit, artistic director and viola
»Tears of Melancholy«
“Neither are the tears always shed in sorrowe, but sometimes in joy and gladnesse” Preceding his Lachrimae or Seven Tears, John Dowland indicates that each tear, each of his seven slow, stately pavanes, is different. Sighing and sad tears next to sincere and loving ones: In this programme, directed by the award-winning French violist Antoine Tamestit, Dowland’s Lachrimae sound like an overture, the prelude to a moving musical journey through which melancholy is woven as a thread.
John Dowland: Lachrimae or Seven Tears Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae op. 48a for Viola and Strings Henry Purcell: Suite Z 770 Henry Purcell: Chaconne in g Z 730 Georg Muffat: Concerto IV Dulce Somnium Paul Hindemith: Trauermusik for Viola and Strings Georg Muffat: Concerto VI – Saeculum
Chaarts Chamber Artists with Regula Mühlemann, soprano
»Fairy Tales«
In the world of fairies, their enchanting sounds, and beguiling songs – surrounded by the mysticism of the North and its dazzling world of legends – the Swiss soprano Regula Mühlemann and the international chamber ensemble CHAARTS are literally on the ‘wings of song’. Here, grand opera, filigree singspiel and fulminant orchestral suites are fused into gripping immediacy by the congenial instrumental art of Wolfgang Renz for eleven instruments, and in the dialogue between the singer and the eleven musicians, oases of the finest musicality as well as sound spaces of remarkable fullness open up.
Edvard Grieg: Suite from Peer Gynt Nr. 1 op. 46 Vier Lieder: Solveigs Wiegenlied (Peer Gynt), Frühling (Lieder op. 33), Ein Schwan (6 Lieder op. 25), Solveigs Lied (Peer Gynt) Giuseppe Verdi: Ninfe! Elfi! Silfi! … Sul fil d’un soffio eteseo (Aria of Nannetta from Falstaff) Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: In dem Mondenschein im Walde op. 19 Nr. 4, Ouverture, Bunte Schlangen zweigezüngt, Scherzo, Bei des Feuers mattem Flimmern (Ein Sommernachtstraum) Antonín Dvořák: Lied an den Mond (Rusalka) Charles Gounod: Je veux vivre dans le rêve (Aria of Juliette from Roméo et Juliette)
And other works by Jules Massenet, Benjamin Britten, Henry Purcell and others.
Chaarts Chamber Artists with Regula Mühlemann, soprano
»Fairy Tales«
In the world of fairies, their enchanting sounds, and beguiling songs – surrounded by the mysticism of the North and its dazzling world of legends – the Swiss soprano Regula Mühlemann and the international chamber ensemble CHAARTS are literally on the ‘wings of song’. Here, grand opera, filigree singspiel and fulminant orchestral suites are fused into gripping immediacy by the congenial instrumental art of Wolfgang Renz for eleven instruments, and in the dialogue between the singer and the eleven musicians, oases of the finest musicality as well as sound spaces of remarkable fullness open up.
Edvard Grieg: Suite from Peer Gynt Nr. 1 op. 46 Vier Lieder: Solveigs Wiegenlied (Peer Gynt), Frühling (Lieder op. 33), Ein Schwan (6 Lieder op. 25), Solveigs Lied (Peer Gynt) Giuseppe Verdi: Ninfe! Elfi! Silfi! … Sul fil d’un soffio eteseo (Aria of Nannetta from Falstaff) Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: In dem Mondenschein im Walde op. 19 Nr. 4, Ouverture, Bunte Schlangen zweigezüngt, Scherzo, Bei des Feuers mattem Flimmern (Ein Sommernachtstraum) Antonín Dvořák: Lied an den Mond (Rusalka) Charles Gounod: Je veux vivre dans le rêve (Aria of Juliette from Roméo et Juliette)
And other works by Jules Massenet, Benjamin Britten, Henry Purcell and others.
B’Rock Orchestra with Antoine Tamestit, artistic director and viola
»Tears of Melancholy«
“Neither are the tears always shed in sorrowe, but sometimes in joy and gladnesse” Preceding his Lachrimae or Seven Tears, John Dowland indicates that each tear, each of his seven slow, stately pavanes, is different. Sighing and sad tears next to sincere and loving ones: In this programme, directed by the award-winning French violist Antoine Tamestit, Dowland’s Lachrimae sound like an overture, the prelude to a moving musical journey through which melancholy is woven as a thread.
John Dowland: Lachrimae or Seven Tears Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae op. 48a for Viola and Strings Henry Purcell: Suite Z 770 Henry Purcell: Chaconne in g Z 730 Georg Muffat: Concerto IV Dulce Somnium Paul Hindemith: Trauermusik for Viola and Strings Georg Muffat: Concerto VI – Saeculum
Chaarts Chamber Artists with Regula Mühlemann, soprano
»Fairy Tales«
In the world of fairies, their enchanting sounds, and beguiling songs – surrounded by the mysticism of the North and its dazzling world of legends – the Swiss soprano Regula Mühlemann and the international chamber ensemble CHAARTS are literally on the ‘wings of song’. Here, grand opera, filigree singspiel and fulminant orchestral suites are fused into gripping immediacy by the congenial instrumental art of Wolfgang Renz for eleven instruments, and in the dialogue between the singer and the eleven musicians, oases of the finest musicality as well as sound spaces of remarkable fullness open up.
Edvard Grieg: Suite from Peer Gynt Nr. 1 op. 46 Vier Lieder: Solveigs Wiegenlied (Peer Gynt), Frühling (Lieder op. 33), Ein Schwan (6 Lieder op. 25), Solveigs Lied (Peer Gynt) Giuseppe Verdi: Ninfe! Elfi! Silfi! … Sul fil d’un soffio eteseo (Aria of Nannetta from Falstaff) Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: In dem Mondenschein im Walde op. 19 Nr. 4, Ouverture, Bunte Schlangen zweigezüngt, Scherzo, Bei des Feuers mattem Flimmern (Ein Sommernachtstraum) Antonín Dvořák: Lied an den Mond (Rusalka) Charles Gounod: Je veux vivre dans le rêve (Aria of Juliette from Roméo et Juliette)
And other works by Jules Massenet, Benjamin Britten, Henry Purcell and others.
Freiburger Barockorchester with Gottfried von der Goltz, violin & direction / Francesco Corti, harpsichord / Daniela Lieb, flute / Josep Domènech, oboe / Beatrix Hülsemann, violin (Vivaldi)
»Behind Bach Revival«
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata „Falsche Welt“ BWV 52 Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord concerto in F major BWV 1057 Tomaso Albinoni: Trio sonata op. 1 no. 12 in B-flat major Alessandro Marcello: Oboe Concerto in d minor Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata „Ich liebe den Höchsten“ BWV 174 Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in D minor op. 3 no. 11 RV 565 Johann Sebastian Bach: Triple Concert in A minor BWV 1044
21 instrumentalists
19 February
Freiburger Barockorchester with n.n., bass („Nachtwächter“)
»Carnival Ballets«
with works by Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Carlo Farina, Johann Rosenmüller, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Claudio Monteverdi, amongst others
Finnish Baroque Orchestra with Carolyn Sampson, soprano
»UN’ ALMA INNAMORATA – Italian Cantatas by Händel«
Händel’s Italian cantatas are among the most beautiful compositions that the Halle-born artist left to posterity. The interpretation by the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and soprano Carolyn Sampson promises a pulsating life as if under the southern sun!
with works by Georg Friedrich Händel, Antonio Vivaldi and Domenico Scarlatti
Freiburger Barockorchester with Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano and direction / Lorenzo Coppola, clarinet / Corina Golomoz, viola
»Mozart Evolution «
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no. 25 KV 183„Kegelstatt“ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio in E-flat KV 498 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano concerto no. 9 in E-flat major KV 271 „Jenamy“
La Folia Barockorchester with Robin Peter Müller, violin and direction / Anna Prohaska, soprano, bass-bariton / n.n. SAT
»Celebration of Life in Death – Music (not only) in times of the plague«
Pandemics have always had an influence on the production of art. This program focusses on music from about 500 years reflecting the suffering from plague and other epidemics in cantatas, arias, funeral music, dances and popular songs. In the end all of them share the same message: the commitment to life!
with works by Oswald von Wolkenstein, Guillaume de Machaut, Reinhard Keiser, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Christoph Graupner, Francesco Cavalli, Henry Purcell, Barbara Strozzi, Salamone Rossi amongst others
Crossover supplement on request: songs by Leonard Cohen (Hallelujah), City (Am Fenster) and The Beatles (Eleanor Rigby)
Freiburger Barockorchester with Kristian Bezuidenhout, organ & direction / Grace Davidson, soprano / Rachel Redmond, soprano / Alexander Chance, alto / Sam Boden, tenor / Hugo Hymas, tenor / David Shipley, bass
»Welcome to all pleasures II«
with works by Henry Purcell und Georg Friedrich Händel
