EARLY & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

LA NOBLE FIERTÉ

The Noble Pride - Chamber Music of the European Baroque

"We must always strive for greatness with our minds, and we should also always possess a certain noble pride and be noble-minded...(...) When a man is described as proud, it means that his mind is set on higher things, especially fame, and that he has a strong sense of honor. When used to describe women, this word sometimes means a charming severity, a pride that is pleasing."

BAROCCO FIORENTINO

Baroque music from Florence

Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768), pupil of the Florentine cathedral organist Giovanni Maria Casini, was a musician at the court of Prince Ferdinando de Medici...

ARIE & CONCERTI

Virtuoso music by the baroque masters Antonio Vivaldi and Alessandro Scarlatti

Antonio Vivaldi's Opus X, dedicated by him unspecifically to the "flauto", is held in high esteem by recorder and transverse flute players alike...

ARCADIA

SENSE OF MEASURE AND BEAUTY

"Accademia degli Arcadi" is the name of a literary society founded in Rome in 1690 , which derives from the Greek landscape Arcadia...

AENIGMA ET STUPOR

IRIS LICHTINGER Recorders, Soprano & STEFAN BLUM Percussion

Astonishing closeness as well as enigmatic distance of sound speech will be experienced in this intimate concert of early and new music, when medieval sounds meet contemporary works for voice, recorder and percussion...

LAVA

Italian Music of the Present

A concert programme born on the fertile slopes of the mighty volcano Etna. The Sicilian Antonio Politano, a sought-after guest at important festivals for new music worldwide, is one of the protagonists...

CASANOVA

CASANOVA in Augsburg – 1761

Giacomo Casanova or "Le Chevalier de Seingalt", Venetian by birth, notorious seducer and dazzling figure of the 18th century, stayed several times in Augsburg in the course of his restless wanderings through Europe...

TOWARD THE SEA

Isang Yun | Joji Yuasa | Toru Takemitsu | Toshio Hosokawa | Maki Ishii

On this evening, four musicians immerse themselves in Far Eastern worlds of sound and present a cross-section of contemporary Japanese and Korean music...