The Ensemble Masques, led by harpsichordist Olivier Fortin, opens this season's harpsichord focus with 18th-century French chamber music. The program includes several solo harpsichord concertos by Baroque master Jean-Philippe Rameau and his contemporaries.

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Ensemble Masques / Olivier Fortin, Cembalo

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

The beautiful, dark red bassoons are given their rightful place at the front of the stage in this chamber concert, which features Dutch Kees Olthius's extremely welcoming study of the versatile-sounding deep woodwinds. Here is inventive and melodious play with rhythm and sound in a kind of double concerto for bassoon and contrabassoon with string quintet. It will be completely dark red on stage when four bassoons play an arrangement of Michel Corrette's Le Phenix – French baroque in new clothes. But the brightest of the woodwinds will also be involved when the flute as a soloist in Joan Towers' 'Rising' examines the tonal movement upwards in every imaginable way; how does music move up and what happens when you get all the way up there?

Michel Corrette

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Dec 12, 2025

Ensemble Masques / Olivier Fortin, Cembalo · Elbphilharmonie

Sep 23, 2025

Brahms' 2nd Piano Trio · Odense Symphony Orchestra

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