NeoBarock is something of the best the German baroque music scene has to offer.
22.5.2025, 08:03 pm, WDR 3
WDR 3 Concert
Live recording from March 16, 2025
with Carly Power – soprano
Cantatas for soprano and violin in scordatura
What to get excited about in 2025
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.
Upcoming release:
Spiegelungen
NeoBarock mirrors Bach‘s Musical Offering with works from the 20th century
In this evocative concert program, the baroque original enters into a dialogue with works by Isang Yun and Viktor Kalabis. In the process, perception gradually changes, opening up new listening perspectives and revealing the timeless relevance of the music. NeoBarock interprets the baroque and modern compositions on the appropriate instruments and combines the works so artfully that “one sometimes wonders why Bach’s music suddenly sounds so modern.” [Rheinische Post, 2023]
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
Next concerts: 7.2.2025 Appenzell (CH), 11.4.2025 Wesel (D)
The CD of the concert will be released in autumn 2025 by Passacaille Records.
Family Concert:
The Triumph of Love
NeoBarock and SOMMERS WELTLITERATUR TO GO present Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Indes galantes as a Playmobil Performance.
Grimme Online Award winner Michael Sommer has reduced Rameau’s opera to its essentials exclusively for NeoBarock. His Playmobil Company performs the exciting perplexities of love on exotic continents, while NeoBarock presents Rameau’s music in its own adaptation.
9. September 2025 Festival Early Music Knechtsteden
and in preparation as a ComicOperaApp
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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.