NeoBarock is something of the best the German baroque music scene has to offer.
What’s new with NeoBarock?
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 creates a vibrant sound world where intellectual rigour 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.
The next opportunity to hear NeoBarock perform Bach’s Musical Offering: November 21, 2026 at Aachener Bachtage (Germany) an in June 22, 2027 at Romanischer Sommer in Cologne.
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.
Celebrate the Queen’s 400th birthday with us on October 8, 2026, at the Musikfestival Usedom,
on December 8, 2026, in the Maxhaus in Düsseldorf,
and on December 9, 2026, in the Domforum in Cologne.
Family Time: Baroque!
Following the great success of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Indes galantes and Handel’s Rodelinda as Playmobil performances, NeoBarock and SOMMERS WELTLITERATUR TO GO now present Georg Friedrich Handel’s opera Alcina.
Grimme Online Award winner Michael Sommer has reduced Handels’s opera to its essentials exclusively for NeoBarock. His Playmobil Company performs the exciting opera, while NeoBarock presents Handel’s music in its own adaptation.
Suitable for ages 6 and up – but definitely not just for kids!
Premiere of Alcina on June 10, 2027, at the Handel Festival in Halle, additional performances on June 10 and 11, 2027, in Halle.
Next performance of Rodelinda on October 10, 2027, in the Domforum in Cologne.
Coming soon: Rameau’s Les Indes galantes as a MusiComicApp!
Soon, you’ll be able to experience Les Indes galantes as a manga in twelve languages, immersing yourself in Jean-Philippe Rameau’s delicate melodies, rapturous harmonies and spirited dances.
And did you know? Playmobil has created a special Handel figurine for our production! If you can’t wait until the next opera, you can bring him home and stage your very own opera.
A musical adventure:
Our 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.
A musical adventure:
Our 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.