This year the Catalan Baroque Orchestra reaches the ten editions of the Early Music Season, which every year offers the best of early music through programs that combine the rare music of the great baroque and classical composers, with unpublished or recovered works of Catalan musicians of the 18th century.
The tenth anniversary will be celebrated during 2024 and 2025 with a program where, in addition to well-known works, the public will discover composers and little-known and well-known musical works, a leitmotif of the orchestra since its creation in 1993.
The X Early Music Season, which has the musician Santi Aubert as artistic director, will start this autumn with two concerts focused on the Baroque repertoire, with works by composers of this period, such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frideric Handel and Antonio Vivaldi.
November 10 and December 1
The concerts will take place on Sundays, November 10 and December 1, at 7 p.m. in the Church of Sant Felip Neri, a location of great historical and cultural relevance that brings a unique added value to early music concerts.
Both concerts feature the presence of Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann, key figures of the Baroque. In the first concert, the IV Brandenburg Concerto and an Ouverture-Suite by Telemann will be performed, while in the second there will be a cantata and a quintet by Telemann, and a concerto for oboe and violin by Bach.
The two concerts will be conducted by Manfredo Kraemer, who will also play the violin, and will include baroque instrumentation through a prominent presence of flutes, oboes, bassoons and other instruments typical of the baroque period. At both concerts, the oboe will play an important role in the hands of Katy Elkin, one of the outstanding performers of this instrument. The December concert will feature the mezzo-soprano Lídia Vinyes-Curtis.