Les Nations

With Les Nations, the multi-award-winning recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger and harpsichordist Peter Kofler present a finely curated programme that allows listeners to experience Baroque music of European origin in all its stylistic diversity – from French elegance and Italian virtuosity to German contrapuntal density.

The selection ranges from famous composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel and François Couperin to lesser-known composers such as Daniel Wrigth and Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset.

The focus is on the cultural exchange between European nations in the 17th and 18th centuries: a time in which national musical styles developed their own characteristics, but at the same time were in close dialogue with each other – be it through composers’ travels, arrangements and improvisations or through the creative appropriation of foreign idioms.

In addition to historical works, two contemporary compositions reflect the baroque tonal language and build a bridge to the present: the Toccata for harpsichord solo by Munich composer Harald Feller and the solo piece ‘D’ by Dutch recorder player and artistic festival director Erik Bosgraaf, which is dedicated to Dorothee Oberlinger.

Programme:

Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite c-Moll BWV 997
Preludio/Fuge/Sarabande/Gigue & Double

William Babell
Aus „Lessons for a harpsichord“: Arrangement von "Lascia chío pianga" (Händel)

Daniel Wrigth
«The Black Joak, at t’is performed at Dublin» aus: The Division Violin (London, um 1730)

Harald Feller (*1951)
Toccata
Cembalo solo

Erik Bosgraaf
„D“ für Dorothee Oberlinger
Recorder solo

Georg Friedrich Händel
Sonate F-Dur op. 1 Nr. 11 HWV 369
Larghetto/Allegro/Alla siciliana/Presto

Nicola Matteis (ca. 1650 - nach 1713)
Diverse bizzarie sopra la vecchia Sarabanda o pur Ciaccona
für Blockflöte und Basso continuo

INTERVAL

Mixed German Solo:
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Allemande aus „Solo pour la flute traversière“ BWV 1013
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Poco Adagio aus Sonate a-Moll Wq 132
- Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773)
Menuett mit Variationen

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sonatine a-Moll
Andante-Allegro-Andante-Presto

Frankreich
Louis Couperin
Prelude non mesurée Nr. 3

Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset
"Pourquoy doux Rossignol“

François Couperin (1668-1733)
Les Tic-Toc-Choc

Arcangelo Corelli
Sonate F-Dur aus op. 5 Nr. 10 with ornamentation by William Babell, Pietro Castrucci and Michel Blavet
Preludio-Adagio/Allemanda-Allegro/Sarabanda-Largo/Giga-Allegro/Gavotta-Allegro

Dorothee Oberlinger recorder
Peter Kofler keyboard