L'Orfeo Barockorchester Linz
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Michi Gaigg
conductor
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Carin van Heerden
recorder
Jean Fery Rebel (1666-1747)
“Les Éléments”. Symphonie nouvelle
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony in G minor, Hob: I:83 “The Hen”
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in G minor for recorder, strings and basso continuo, RV 439 “La notte”
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Suite from “Zaïs”, ballet héroïque
Can this really be baroque music? Jean-Féry Rebel’s revolutionary symphony Les Eléments opens with a dissonant chord containing every pitch of the D-minor scale. In this way, he explained, he wanted to depict the confusion that reigned among the four elements before the divine act of creation. Thereafter Nature begins to assume definite shape – earth in pulsating tones, water in ascending and descending lines in the flute, air in rests and piccolo trills, fire in rapid violin passages. The excellent Orfeo Baroque Orchestra and its director, the Harnoncourt pupil Michi Gaigg, will devote their Lucerne début to the wonders of creation – for instance in Haydn’s Paris symphony La Poule or Vivaldi’s flute concerto La notte. The circle comes full close with a suite from Rameau’s Zaïs, a ballet héroique whose overture portrays what happened after the “Big Bang.”