A concert that suggests the evolution from Baroque music to Viennese Classicism—and all the way to Romanticism?
Danish star soloist Andrea Brantelid and Concerto Copenhagen, under the baton of Lars Ulrik Mortensen, will explore a period in which the characteristic features of the Baroque era were giving way to new innovations.
The concert marks a turning point in music history, taking us from the Baroque era with music by Georg Philipp Telemann, through Bach’s son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, to the “father figure” of Viennese Classical music, Joseph Haydn.
The term “turning point” is commonly used in art history to describe shifts in artistic expression; it sounds dramatic, but such shifts are actually rare. Yet the development from the stylistic features of the Baroque, through the Italian/French galant style andNorth German Empfindsamkeit, to the youthful Sturm und Drang fervor is fascinating, pointing not only toward Viennese Classicism but also deep into Romanticism
Together with Brantelid, Concerto Copenhagen will seek to illustrate the musical developments of that era, using an orchestra instruments of the standard sizes of the time—ones that Telemann, Bach’s sons, and “Papa Haydn” would have recognized.
Concerto Copenhagen released the critically acclaimed album *Times of Transitions* with Andreas Brantelid in 2021, which can be heard here.