Opening Concert
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| 20:00 | From young to old

Opening Concert

Paying homage to the real garden stars

Church of Peace Sanssouci / Address: Am Grünen Gitter 3, 14469 Potsdam

artists

Dorothee Oberlinger, recorder
François Lazarevitch, recorder & musette
Dorothee Mields, soprano
Rüdiger Lotter, violin & concertmaster
ENSEMBLE 1700

At the Marly Garden & in the cloister:
Sound installation by Erwin Stache (The Cuckoo's Clock Orchestra / 73,8 kilo-ohm)
Peter A. Bauer, percussion, birdcalls, nose flute

program

Jacob van Eyck (1589-1675): Engels Nachtegaeltje & other pieces from "Der Fluyten Lust-Hof" ("The flutes' court of pleasure")
Henry Purcell (1659-1695): Music from "The Fairy Queen"
William Williams (1675-1701): Sonata in imitation of birds
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767): Funeral music of an art-conversant canary bird
Nicolas de Chédeville (1705-1782): "The joys of summer"
George Frederic Handel (1685-1759): Arias from operas
Georg Muffat (1653-1704): Suite from "Florilegium secundum"
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704): Sonata Rappresentativa for violin and b.c. (with nightingale, cuckoo, quail, cat & other animals)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): "Il Gardellino" (The Goldfinch) Concerto for descant recorder RV 428

description

The Church of Peace Sanssouci is not just a church inside a park: it forms a complete ensemble with the gardens surrounding it. Its interior and the exterior are exactly as ingeniously related to one another as its principal and ideas generator Frederic William IV had wished for. Thus one makes one's way directly from the church's tranquil contemplativeness to the paradise, which is the Marly Garden: a special Lenné garden design jewel. Gardens outside have their special kind of music, the Music Festival Sanssouci moves it indoors and dedicates the opening concert to nature's princely singers. Since ancient times man has been listening to the art of birds trying to equal them by means of flute, violin and vocal chords, much like the soloists tonight with two extraordinary flautists leading the way. A baroque homage to the real garden stars.

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