NeoBarock is something of the best the German baroque music scene has to offer.
What’s new with NeoBarock?
Latest release:
Pallas nordica
Once upon a time there was a queen whose life makes even the most famous works of world literature look pale. NeoBarock follows in the footsteps of Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) across Europe: musical rarities, such as the prologue to Scipione Affricano, which Alessandro Stradella composed especially for Christina on the occasion of the opening of her opera house in Rome, or a previously unknown sonata by her concert master Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, are combined with eyewitness accounts and allow the contradictory personality of this truly baroque femme fatale to be heard. With passages from her autobiography and royal correspondence, actress Alexandra Lowygina also gives the queen herself a chance to speak. A multi-faceted approach to an impressive woman who was far more than just a headstrong monarch.
7. November 2025
release: Spiegelungen
SPIEGELUNGEN brings together Bach’s Musical Offering, Viktor Kalabis’ Canonic Inventions, and Isang Yun’s Royal Theme in a striking dialogue across time and culture. Three composers and three worlds of thought meet in a conversation that moves between baroque clarity, modernist invention, and the meditative poetics of East Asian sound.
The recording of Viktor Kalabis’s Six Canonic Inventions by Stanislav Gres marks the world premiere of these pieces performed on a historically built harpsichord.
Isang Yun’s Royal Theme is heard here for the first time in its original version, recorded by violinist Maren Ries, who revised the score according to Yun’s manuscript.
NeoBarock creats a vibrant sound world where intellectual rigor meets poetic resonance. By placing them in dialogue, NeoBarock invites listeners to hear timeless ideas mirrored and transformed, a resonance between past and present that illuminates both.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Musical Offering, BWV 1079,
Isang Yun (1917-1995) Royal Theme for solo violin, 1976,
Viktor Kalabis (1923-2006) Canonical Inventions for Harpsichord, Op. 20, 1962
The CD will be released on November 7th, 2025, by Passacaille Records.
Family Concert:
Handel’s RODELINDA
Following the great success of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Indes galantes as a Playmobil performance, NeoBarock and SOMMERS WELTLITERATUR TO GO now present Handel’s Rodelinda.
Grimme Online Award winner Michael Sommer has reduced Handels’s opera to its essentials exclusively for NeoBarock. His Playmobil Company performs the exciting power struggles over King Bertarido and Rodelinda from the perspective of their son Flavio, while NeoBarock presents Handel’s music in its own adaptation.
Suitable for ages 6 and up – but definitely not just for kids!
Premiere on May 23, 2026, at the International Handel Festival in Göttingen, additional performances on June 9 and 10, 2026, at the Handel Festival in Halle.
Available soon: Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Indes galantes in preparation as a MusiComicApp:
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The new illustrated CD book for kids!
There’s a lot of excitement in the castle of Princess Fasola and her cat Tido: Prince Doremi is having all the birds in his kingdom captured! Will the princess and her friends succeed in outwitting the prince’s “Muskeltiere” to free the birds? The clever quail has a brilliant plan …
Under the artistic direction of violinist Maren Ries, NeoBarock has recorded a captivating parable about the value of freedom and the unifying power of music together with author Jolanda Steiner as narrator. The well-known Cologne illustrator Heribert Schulmeyer has provided the artwork for the accompanying picture book. The music includes Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s famous Sonata violino solo representativa.
Three quarters of an hour of listening fun for the whole family, a beautifully illustrated book to read aloud or read along with, and a child-friendly introductory text about Baroque music and its features.