It is a story about friendship and the power of making music: In the land of oboes and bassoons, everything is fine. People play, laugh, argue and make up again. But suddenly a thundering storm breaks out: everything freezes and becomes quiet. Then someone comes along who sounds completely different, completely strange and new. Can this newcomer break the rigidity and create a new harmony? And can the message he brings with him in a secret language be deciphered?

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Rococo Theater

Long before Mozart's divertimenti and serenade music, wind players loved to play music in the fresh air, and if the weather plays along, this will also be the case at the walking concert of the oboe band La Petite Ècurie. And with good reason - after all, the concert is in the Schwetzingen Palace Gardens, where Verschaffelt's sculptures of the river gods of the Rhine and Moselle by the lake widen the view towards the neighboring European countries. These are the focus of the program Oboes on a European Tour, which presents music of the High Baroque in several national styles. The present-day countries of France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy and Austria are the stops on a walk that playfully circles around the most fascinating contradictions of Baroque music: only the basso continuo as a fixed rule enables the greatest possible melodic freedom; as a unifying and binding idea, it also makes individual national styles possible. And who invented it? The Florentines!

Giovanni Battista Graziadio

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May 18, 2025

sound explorer · SWR Symphonieorchester

May 17, 2025

Oboen auf Europareise · SWR Symphonieorchester

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