Programs
The Gifts of Bacchus
A scenic journey through receptions of Bacchus in the Baroque period. German, English, Italian, French music of the early and high baroque
Earthly and paradisaic songs
In the Arcadian realms, the shepherds call on the little birds to reduce their love suffering. Love, rejection and constant pain determine life in paradise as well as on earth.
ITALIA!
Music by the Italian masters of the early Baroque. The god Cupid is adressed in a variety of songs: villanelles, arias, canto in the “Stile Recitativo”.
Deutschland?
The sometimes quiet, sometimes shrill music from the scattered “land” of the 16th and 17th century moves between heartbreak, tears and love. . .
