In the organizer's words:

BAROQUE CONCERT IN THE LIGHT

2nd winter concert

MEMBERS OF THE DUISBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

TONIO SCHIBEL violin and conductor

STEPHAN DREIZEHNTER flute

MIKHAIL ZHURAVLEV oboe

ANJA SCHRÖDER violoncello

One thing the people of the baroque age certainly knew how to do: celebrate! What must Christmas have been like in what was probably the most festive place in Germany, the Dresden court of Augustus the Strong? The festive music, at any rate, must have been by Johann David Heinichen. So jealously were the works of the court composer kept under lock and key that they only gained attention outside Saxony two centuries later. The case of Georg Phillipp Telemann, who has always held a prominent place among Baroque composers, was quite different. Heinichen had met him while studying law in Leipzig. Surrounded by atmospheric light, the two old companions meet again in the opera foyer.

Photo: Zoltan Leskovar

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