Saturday 31 May 2014
Wedding hysteria with Bach! Joshua Rifkin, international frontman and Bach expert, known for his poetic interpretations of the Baroque master, visits Stockholm for the first time. During Stockholm Early Music Festival the 70 year old American maestro, together with the German soprano Ulrike Hofbauer as soloist, invites the audience to two cantatas for wedding feasts, Saturday 7 June at 9 PM in the German Church.
After 35 years of international activity and 40 CD-recordings, the Ensemble Gilles Binchois, conducted by Dominique Vellard, has assumed a special status among interpreters of sacred music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. With an excellent timbre and a dense vocal beauty, the ensemble addresses the Spanish Golden Age in its performance Friday 6 June at 9 PM in the German Church.