Top-class journey into the Baroque including many current recordings

The musical world of the Baroque was above all one thing: colourful! On the one hand, composers embellished princely pomp and solemn church services with the glittering sounds of festive orchestral suites or contrapuntal sound architectures - on the other hand, vocal virtuosos swept away audiences in opera houses. Masterful chamber or harpsichord music was heard at concerts in salons. And it is precisely this diversity that Baroque Festival reflects - in the various styles of interpretation, from the ideals of authentic performance practice to interpretations on modern instruments.

Artists

Emiliano Rodolfi (oboe), Marco Cera (oboe), Enrico Onofri (violin), Paolo Grazzi (oboe), Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Beatrice Rana (piano), Fabio Biondi (violin), Alison Balsom (trumpet), Piotr Anderszewski (piano), Georg Faust (cello), Rainer Kußmaul (violin), Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor), Jean Rondeau (harpsichord), Sophie Gent (violin), Louis Creac'h (violin), Fanny Paccoud (viola), Antoine Touche (cello), Thomas de Pierrefeu (double bass), Evolène Kiener (bassoon), Il Giardino Armonico, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Artaserse, Europa Galante, Balsom Ensemble, I Solisti Veneti, Orfeo 55, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Berlin Barock Solisten, Capella Cracoviensis, Giovanni Antonini, Richard Tognetti, Claudio Scimone, Nathalie Stutzmann, Sir Neville Marriner, Jan Tomasz Adamus, Alexander Briger