Camerata Kilkenny

Founded by the Irish harpsichordist and organist Malcolm Proud and the Swiss violinist Maya Homburger, Camerata Kilkenny gave its début recital at the 1999 Kilkenny Arts Festival. Since then the ensemble has performed all over Ireland and Europe, while its recording of Bach’s ‘Musical Offering’ (with Wilbert Hazelzet) was released last year to widespread acclaim.

For Kilkenny the ensemble performs a breathtaking range of works by three great Baroque composers, from the “dignified solemnity” (Trevor Pinnock) of Bach’s D minor Harpsichord Concerto to the ‘Coffee Cantata’, a miniature comic operatelling the story of a young girl’s addiction to coffee and her father’s attempts to cure her.

For the cantatas Camerata Kilkenny is joined by tenor Leonhard Reso and soprano Anja Lipfert (of the Calmus Ensemble).

Programme

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)                 

Cantata Non sa che sia dolore BWV 209

Harpsichord Concerto in D minor

The Coffee Cantata BWV 211

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN (1681-1767)

Paris Quartet in E minor

Reviews

Performances of this extra-special work [Bach's Musical Offering] can be sometimes illuminated, sometimes stultified, by an atmosphere of overpowering reverence. Not so this one, in which the music's artifices were subsumed in a world of rhetoric, decoration and dance.

- The Irish Times

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