The year 2021 and the seventh season of the concert series Baroque & umzu begins with the question: What actually is Baroque? The title of the program “Typisch Barock!?” plays with the many possible answers to this question and the subconscious expectations. The Bremer Barockorchester answers: diversity and emotion. The focus of the February concert is on the Recorder and the Viola da Gamba, two genuine baroque instruments that are completely absent from the modern orchestra. The warm sound no longer suited the sound conceptions of the following era, in which the assertiveness of the instruments in the growing symphony orchestra became more and more important. In the Baroque era, however, these two instruments were favorites of many composers, professional musicians and the amateurs at home. For example, G.P. Telemann masterfully uses them in his Concerto for Recorder and Viola da Gamba in A minor. What is astonishing about this […]
We are finally back on stage! In the fourth concert of 2020, the conditions have changed (the concert will take place without a break and the program will be slightly shortened), but we are very pleased that, even under the difficult conditions and on a small scale, we will be allowed to play for you all again. We look forward to working with Alfredo Bernardini, one of the most well-known international baroque oboists of our time, who will take on the musical direction of this project. Under the title “Hohes Holz” (after the French name of the instrument “Haut-bois”, a woodwind instrument that sounds in the high register) we go on a journey of discovery into the partially still unknown spheres of virtuoso baroque oboe music. Program: Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768) Overture No. 1 in B flat major Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763) Concerto for Oboe in G minor Evaristo Dall’Abaco […]
For the first time, the renowned recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger is a guest with the Bremer Barockorchester. The 2020 Concert Series “Barock & Umzu” opens with an unusual program that includes both late baroque music, such as the famous flute concert “La Notte” by Antonio Vivaldi, and works by G.Ph. Telemann, as well as music from the 16th Century. Together, the soloist and ensemble explore the world of baroque flute music presenting works from all over Europe that seem to continually surpass each other in virtuosity, but also skillfully showcase the cantabile character of the recorder. Professor Dorothee Oberlinger is internationally known for her lively playing at the highest technical level, which repeatedly entices storms of enthusiasm among baroque music lovers and especially among listeners who previously knew the recorder from their school years. On various recorders, Oberlinger and the Bremer Barockorchester demonstrate the unimaginable possibilities in this instrument. Program: […]
