Il Gusto Barocco

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• Sun. 29 September 2024, 5 pm - Überlingen, Franciscan Church 

Bach DIE KUNST DER FUGE 
scored for cornettos, trombones, woodwinds, strings and organ as a multifaceted spatial sound experience in the church (BWV 1080.1)  

The positions of the musicians become ‘basic parameters - a concept that has as much to do with multi-choral early music as it does with the avant-garde. Exciting!’ reported the Fränkische Landeszeitung newspaper about our performance on the occasion of the Bachwoche Ansbach 2023. The instrumentation follows stylistic echoes of the fugues and draws a panopticon of Bach sounds. The music stands are distributed in four places, fugue structures stretch out in several dimensions, musicians ‘carry the fugue theme through the church like a monstrance (...). This also creates the almost sacred aura that surrounds Bach's late unfinished cycle beyond the spatial-sound interpretation’.

Concert without intermission, duration 70 minutes 

il Gusto Barocco 
Jörg Halubek, harpsichord and musical director

• Sun. 12 January 2025, 5 pm - Tettnang, Knights' Hall in the castle 

Of war and peace. The story of a soldier 
In 1988, a unique testimony in the form of a diary was rediscovered in the manuscript archive of the Prussian State Library in Berlin: the diary of Peter Hagendorf, whose life story is exemplary for the fate of the citizens during the Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648). Hagendorf wandered through Germany as a lansquenet.

Drinking, starving, robbing. 

His memoirs are the chronicle of a tragic odyssey over 25,000 kilometres across Germany, France and Italy.This unique testimony in the form of a diary offers us the opportunity to accompany Peter on a musical journey through the Europe of war. 

Music by Sophie Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Heinrich Schütz, Samuel Scheidt, Johann Hildebrand and Matthias Weckmann

Concert with one break, total duration 1:50 

Il Gusto Barocco  
Franziska Gottwald, alto 
Philipp Mathmann, soprano 
Guillem Borràs Garriga, dramaturgy 
Musical direction and harpsichord: Jörg Halubek 
 

• Tue. 27 May 2025, 8 pm, Constance, Festsaal Steigenberger

Amor vincitore
‘The orchestra is without contradiction the best in Germany’ wrote Leopold Mozart in 1763 about the Mannheim court orchestra. Under Elector Carl Theodor, a unique orchestra was created in Mannheim that brought together training, virtuosity in playing technique, tonal and compositional innovations.

The Research Centre Court | Music | City and its predecessor projects have been researching and discovering a variety of works and new aspects of sound and performance practice since 1991. 

What is still little known today: Johann Sebastian Bach's youngest son Johann Christian advanced as an opera composer from Milan to London and celebrated success with works for the Mannheim court theatre from 1772. 

His one-act opera Amor vincitore was performed in Schwetzingen in 1774 and is il Gusto Barocco's first engagement with the Mannheim school. The story is simple: Alcidoro loves Dalisa, who, with her chorus of hunters and shepherds, wants nothing to do with love. But Cupid takes care of him with his bow and arrow. As an opera, Amor vincitore provides a wonderful template for virtuosity and musical colourfulness.

Concert without intermission, duration approx. 90 minutes

Silvia Frigato (soprano), Dalisa
Maayan Licht (soprano), Alcidoro
calen's vocal ensemble
Il Gusto Barocco
Jörg Halubek, musical direction