Bach Burlesque “between coffee and beer”

Bach Burlesque “between coffee and beer”

Cantatas BWV 211 & 212 The first, written for the entertainment of customers at the famous Café Zimmermann, and the other, written for the birthday party of Carl Heinrich von Dieskau, Lord, landowner and tax collector near Leipzig — Bach’s “Coffee” and “Peasant”...
Rameau & Couperin “en concerts”

Rameau & Couperin “en concerts”

Four musicians from the Ensemble Masques plunge into the heart of the French Baroque in a programme featuring two of its unrivalled composers, François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau. Masques presents two of Couperin’s famous Concerts Royaux, innovative works...
Giovanni Legrenzi : La morte del cor penitente

Giovanni Legrenzi : La morte del cor penitente

One of the most important composers in Venice at the end of the 17th century, Legrenzi played a leading role in the development of Baroque musical language in northern Italy. A master of Baroque musical rhetoric, his work makes use of numerous devices related to the...
G.F. Handel : Acis & Galatea

G.F. Handel : Acis & Galatea

Cannons Version, 1718 ”Written in 1718 for the Duke of Chandos’ private theatre, Acis & Galatea tells the story of two lovers — the shepherd Acis and the water nymph Galatea — who must reckon with the anger of the jealous cyclops Polyphemus. A magician of the...