Three internationally acclaimed basses with virtuoso arias, duets & tercets – Joel Frederiksen, Thomas E. Bauer und Harry van der Kamp
Three or even ten tenors are no longer unusual, but three basses are a rarity! German Baroque music at the beginning of the 17th century was characterized by Italian influences. Heinrich Schütz, the first great German composer of this period, made two pilgrimages across the Alps to Venice, where he studied with Giovanni Gabrieli and certainly also became acquainted with the music of Claudio Monteverdi. Sacred works with dramatic text settings in the style of the "Nuove musiche" (New Music) found their own "German" expression through Schütz and other Baroque masters such as Franz Tunder, Christoph Bernhard and Johann Casper von Kerll. In the course of the program, this music unfolds in all its glory with expressive solos, duets and tercets for the basses as well as virtuoso instrumental pieces - sometimes melodic and dance-like, sometimes in the "stile recitativo".
Performers: Thomas E. Bauer - bass | Harry van der Kamp - bass | Joel Frederiksen - bass, lute, direction | Félix Verry - violin | Aleksandra Brzóskowska - violin | Axel Wolf - theorbo | Domen Marinčič - viola da gamba | Michael Eberth - organ, harpsichord
Especially in opera, which was still in its infancy at the beginning of the Baroque period, the bass singer is attributed an important role: He stands for nobility, wisdom and power, for good and for evil. And hardly any tragic piece of music could do without a bass, the deeper the more fascinating.
3st concert of the subscription series XVI: "Between Mars and Venus".
Pre-concert lecture: 7 p.m.
We would like to thank the District of Upper Bavaria, the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art for their support of this series.