| 20:00 | From young to old
From Telemann's Garden
Baroque violin art featuring blooming fantasies
Ovid Gallery | New Chambers Sanssouci / Address: Im Park Sanssouci (Maulbeerallee), 14469 Potsdam
"Even though it [the music] is my acre and my plough and serves as my main source of delectation, a few years ago it got a companion - my love for flowers."
Georg Philipp Telemann
artists
NeoBarock
Volker Möller, violin
Maren Ries, violin, viola
Ariane Spiegel, violoncello
Arend Grosfeld, harpsichord
program
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767): Trio E flat major TWV 42:Es1
for 2 violins and b.c. from "Musique de Table"
Sonata D major TWV 42:D11 for violin, viola and b.c.
Sonata D minor TWV 42:d6 for 2 scordatura violins and b.c.
Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755): Sonata D major for violin and b.c.
J.G. Pisendel or Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
Sonata C minor for violin and b.c. (BWV 1024)
George Frederic Handel (1685-1759) & J.G. Pisendel:
Sonata F major HWV 392 for 2 violins and b.c.
Introduction by Telemann Researcher Ralph-Jürgen Reipsch from Magdeburg:
Telemann the flower lover.
description
After being appointed the City of Hamburg's new Musical Director Telemann did what other affluent citizens did and acquired an impressive garden - and soon afterwards he was "passionately in love with flowers". Friends and colleagues, among them were Johann Georg Pisendel, violin virtuoso at the Royal Court in Dresden and Georg Friedrich Händel in London, were asked to hunt for rare flowers and plants. They did more than sending seeds - this musical friendship was also the basis for some rather unusual fruits. The ensemble NeoBarock, winners of a 2014 ECHO KLASSIK for the best chamber music recording, know how to make baroque violin art blossom with all its finesse. They offer a fresh bouquet from Telemann's un-perishable garden while your eyes can rest on the view of Frederic II's cherry orchard right in front of the Ovid Gallery.
