Wecome to Copenhagen Baroque Festival 2021!
This year the festival will take place from August 18th to 22nd.
The historical sites, Trinitatis Church, Rosenborg Castle and Round Tower will again this year be collaboration partners and we are very grateful being able to present our concerts in such beautiful settings!
Thank you to all foundations, partners and volunteers helping us throughout the festival – without the financial support, the venues and all the help behind the stage we would have no festival!
This year we will present to you music written to the Church services, to the King and royalties and to the people in very different settings: we will have concerts in the church, the royal castle and the old inn and we are looking very much forward to welcoming you in all of these places with each their history!
This year you can also learn a few card games from the baroque times with the original rules – come join our sessions and finish the course in the evening with a real game of cards accompanied by live music from our many festival musicians.
We also have a special focus on a lesser known instrument – this year we will cast light on the Irish Harp having invited the virtuosic Siobhan Armstrong to present the instrument in a solo recital as well as in a chamber music setting!
Please visit this page and learn more about each concert from Wednesday to Sunday – each of them has something special and we guarantee beautiful music with dedicated musicians in amazing historic settings!
Warmly Welcome
KING OF SPADES
Vivaldi´s Seasons
Wednesday August 18, 8pm –Trinitatis Church
Arte dei Suonatori & Bolette Roed, recorder
Entrance
Arte dei Suonatori & Bolette Roed, recorder
Entrance
Elisabetta de Gambarini (1730-1765)
From Harpsichord sonata in C-major Op. 1 No. 5
(Vivace, Siciliana-Andante, Spiritoso assai)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in A major (RV 335a) “Il rosignuolo”
Allegro
Grave
Allegro
Anna Bon di Venezia (1739/?40-1767)
Flute sonata in D-major
Allegro moderato, Andante, Allegro Assai
Concerto in E-flat Major (RV 257)
Andante molto e quasi allegro
Adagio
Allegro
Elisabetta de Gambarini (1730-1765)
Harpsichord sonata
Concerto in g-minor, Op.8 no.2 (RV 315)
Summer from “The four seasons”
Allegro non molto
Adagio
Presto
QUEEN OF CLUBS
History of the Harp
Thursday August 19, 4.30pm – Trinitatis Church Congregation House
Siobhan Armstrong & Helen Davies tell about the history of The Irish Harp and The Baroque Harp, and play examples from the music litterature
Free entrance
JACK OF HEARTS
From Berlin to Hamburg
Thursday August 19, 8pm – Trinitatis Church
Arte dei Suonatori & Reiko Ichise, gamba
Entrance
PROGRAM:
Wilhelmine, Margravine of Bayreuth (1709 – 1758)
Concerto in g minor for Harpsichord, strings and B.C. (6’)
Allegro
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 – 1788)
Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major Wq 182/2 (11’)
Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703 – 1771)
Concerto for viola da gamba in d minor (22’)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 – 1788)
Symphony No. 4 in A major Wq 182/4 (12’)
NINE OF HEARTS
Organ Summer Series
Friday August 20, 12 – Trinitatis Church
Free entrance
Organ Music by John Bull, Tarquinio Merula & Joan Cabanilles
Allan Rasmussen, organ
QUEEN OF DIAMONDS
Once upon a time in Paris
Friday August 20, 4.30pm – Trinitatis Church
Facebook event
Elephant House Quartet
Free entrance
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665 – 1729)
Trio sonata in g minor
G. P. Telemann (1681-1767)
Paris Quartet in a-minor (TWV 43:a2)
Allegrement, Flatteusement, Legerement, Un peu vivement, Vite, Coulant
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Prelude in d minor
Trio sonata in D major
Elephant House Quartet
QUEEN OF HEARTS
Love and Lamentation, The Irish Harp at the Court of Christian IV
Friday August 20, 8pm – Round Tower
Siobhan Armstrong, Irish Harp
Music from the time of Christian IV
Entrance
From songs of love to evocative laments, Siobhán Armstrong’s playing draws her listeners into the sound-world of
16th-to 18th -century Ireland.
She is one of Europe’s most respected historical harpists and one of the very few who plays the illustrious, ancient Irish harp, with a rare and exquisite bell-like tone created by its medieval brass-wire strings.
Siobhán’s programme at the 2021 festival includes repertory composed for great Irish lords in the 17th-and 18th century. This is also a unique chance to reimagine earlier music at the court of Christian IV, who had not one but two royal Irish harpers, who played with John Dowland and other famous musicians at his court.
The ancient Irish harp tradition disappeared for ever in the nineteenth century but join us on Friday to hear it come life once again!
JACK OF SPADES
Card games from the Baroque
Saturday August 21, 11am-1pm
Borchs Kollegium (Store Kannikestræde 12, 1169 København)
Instruction: Poul Høxbro
Free Entrance
Learn how to play some of the popular card games from the baroque.
KING OF DIAMONDS
The Art of Patterns
Saturday August 21, 4.30pm – Trinitatis Church
Arte dei Suonatori & Jonas Lyskjær Frølund, clarinet & Joachim Becerra Thomsen, flute
Music by Mozart, Haydn and Stamitz
KING OF HEARTS
The passion of musicke
Saturday August 21, 8pm – Rosenborg castle
Music from the court of Christian IV
Siobhan Armstrong, Irish Harp; Reiko Ichise, gamba; Ryosuke Sakamoto, lut & Bolette Roed, recorder
ACE OF SPADES
Card games from the Baroque at the Tavern
Saturday August 21, 9.30pm
Borchs Kollegium (Store Kannikestræde 12, 1169 København)
Play original card games from The Baroque at the Tavern, have a drink and enjoy relaxed popular music from that time
Poul Høxbro, Siobhan Armstrong, Reiko Ichise, Bolette Roed, Ryosuke Sakamoto, m.fl.
Free entrance
Cantata Service
Sunday August 22, 10.30am – Trinitatis Church
Trinitatis Church Choir and Arte dei Suonatori
Free entrance
Thanks to…
Augustinusfonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Solistforeningen, William Demant Fonden & Adam Mickiewicz Institute