Wasserspiele – Barockorchesterglanz 2023

It is no wonder that King George I of England was particularly fond of the music that George Frideric Handel wrote in 1717 as the musical backdrop to a nightly royal pleasure cruise on the Thames and wanted to hear it again and again: On the outward and return journey of this boat trip alone, it had to be repeated three times in succession at the express wish of His Majesty. The suites of the so-called Water Music have virtually become the epitome of festively glamorous, opulently scored baroque music. We are delighted to be able to present this classic to our audience, and what is more, in the interpretation of the excellent Vorarlberg Baroque Orchestra Concerto Stella Matutina under the direction of the internationally renowned baroque oboist Alfredo Bernardini, always a welcome guest in our concert series. Georg Philipp Telemann's Water Music, the overture suite Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth, is far more than a filler piece, but rather a masterpiece bubbling with original ideas, in which the winds whisper and the storms rage, the waves rush, the frogs croak and the boatmen sing. Telemann set a highly original musical monument to the Alster, Hamburg's flowing lifeline, with another overture.

George Frideric Handel Water Music
Georg Philipp Telemann Hamburger Ebb' und Flut & Alster Overture
Concerto Stella Matutina
Alfredo Bernardini - Baroque oboe & conductor