Author: Andrea Kerner

15 – 20 June

Freiburger Barockorchester
with René Jacobs, direction / RIAS Kammerchor (SATB) / Helena Rasker, Orfeo, alto / Polina Pastirchak, Euridice, soprano / Kateryna Kasper, Amore, soprano

»Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (concert version)«

37 musicians, choir, alto, 2x soprano

5 – 18 June

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.

11 instrumentalists (5 winds, 5 strings, harp)

1 – 30 June

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

Line-up: number of musicians tbc

1 – 8 May

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.

11 instrumentalists (5 winds, 5 strings, harp)

8 + 9 May

Freiburger Barockorchester
with Pablo Heras-Casado, direction / RIAS Kammerchor / n.n.. soprano (2X)

»A Midsummer Night’s Dream«

Franz Schubert: Ouverture to Rosamunde D. 797
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 6 D. 589
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: A Midsummer Night’s Dream op. 61

Line-up: 47 musicians, choir, 2x soprano

22-31 May

franz ensemble

»Works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Berwald, Helena Winkelmann and others«

Please contact us for repertoire list and programs.

8 instrumentalists

1 April

Freiburger Barockorchester & Vox Luminis
with mit Lionel Meunier, bass and direction / Raphael Höhn, evangelist

»Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew passion BWV 244«

Line-up: 35 musicians, 12 singers

18 + 21 April

Freiburger Barockorchester
with Anne Katharina Schreiber, direction

»Evening of serenades«

Antonín Dvořák: Serenade in D minor op. 44
Antonín Dvořák: Serenade in E major op. 22
Johannes Brahms: Serenade no. 1 in D major op. 11

Line-up: 32 musicians

19 + 20 + 26 March

Freiburger Barockorchester & Vox Luminis
with mit Lionel Meunier, bass and direction / Raphael Höhn, evangelist

»Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew passion BWV 244«

Line-up: 35 musicians, 12 singers

13 + 15 February

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

Freiburger BarockConsort: 15 musicans

26 + 27 February

Freiburger Barockorchester & Vox Luminis
with Lionel Meunier, bass and direction

»Stabat Mater II«

Christoph Bernhardt: Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener
Agostino Stefani: Stabat Mater
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Requiem in F minor

Line-up: 12 musicians, 12 singers

16 – 18 and 20 – 31 January

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

Line-up: 8 musicians, soprano

25 January

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“

Line-up: 29 musicians, fortepiano

7 – 10 November

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)

Line-up: 9-10 musicians, soprano

23 November

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

Line-up: 19 musicians