• Bach's Orchestral Suites – When Less Is More

    Bach's Orchestral Suites – Less Is More
    Smith Square Hall, LONDON FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Sinfonia Smith Square, London, United Kingdom

    Together with Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen interprets one of the best-known collections of Baroque suites as a striking example of the idea that less is more. “Orchestral suites” is not the term Bach himself used when the works were performed in his own time. And he did not add trumpets and timpani until later, when the music was to be performed […]

  • Stylus Phantasticus

    Stylus Phantasticus
    Smith Square Hall, LONDON FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC Sinfonia Smith Square, London, United Kingdom

    Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Sonata VIII from *Fidicinium Sacro-Profanum* (1644–1704) Dario Castello: Sonata XV à 4 (Book II) (1602–1631) Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: *Lamento di Ferdinando III* (1620–1680) Matthias Weckmann: Toccata Ottava for harpsichord (c. 1619–1674) Henry Purcell: Fantasia VIII (Z.739) & XI (Z.742) for strings (1659–1695) Antonio Bertali: Ciacona for violin and continuo (1605–1669) Intermission […]