Category: Dates

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

15 October

Freiburger Barockorchester
with Gottfried von der Goltz, violin and direction / Javier Zafra, bassoon / n.n. organ

»Off to the forest«

with works by Georg Friedrich Händel, Francesco Geminiani, Antonio Vivaldi

Line-up: 29 musicians, solo bassoon, organ

19 – 21 September

Freiburger Barockorchester
with René Jacobs, direction / n.n., soprano / Yannick Debus, bass

»Händel program«

Georg Friedrich Händel: Apollo e Daphne HWV 122
Georg Friedrich Händel: Il delirio amoroso HWV 99

Line-up: 19 musicians, soprano, bass

12 + 13 / 20 / 26 + 27 August as well as on request

Finnish Baroque Orchestra
with Virpi Räisänen, mezzo-soprano / Taito Hoffrén, folk singer

»The birth of the world – early baroque and finnish folk music«

With works by Enríquez de Valderrábano, Tarquinio Merula, Barbara Strozzi, Marco Uccellini, Claudio Monteverdi of musician and soloists tbc.

Line-up: 6 musicians, mezzo-soprano, folk singer