'entirely wonderful'
'terrifically inventive'
'One of the most sheerly
enjoyable recordings
I have heard in years'
Martin Anderson,
'Excellent playing and singing,
a recording from the top drawer.'
Highly recommendable.
Musicweb-International
'Truly magical'
Bayern 4 Klassik
Foto: Lars Bryngelsson
UPCOMING CONCERTS
BAROKK JUL!
Baroque music by Bach, Händel, Corelli, A. Scarlatti, Sarri, Torelli, Pachelbel and Christmas songs from the baroque era
Ditte Marie Bræin, soprano
Caroline Eidsten Dahl, recorder
Oslo Circles
These concerts have now unfortuntaly been cancelled!
10.01.2021 // 12:00 // Akershus Slottskirke
BACH-MARATON!
Blant høydepunktene er Brandenburg-konsert nr.5 BWV 1050, bass-kantaten Ich habe genug BWV 82, Mein gläubiges Herze fra kantate BWV 68, utdrag fra Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080 og Ein Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079, h-moll-messen, musikk for lutt, orgel, cello, fløyte, fiolin og mye mer.
Ditte Marie Bræin, sopran
Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzosopran
Halvor Melien, bassbaryton
Oslo Circles:
Astrid Kirschner, barokkfiolin
May Kunstovny, barokkfiolin
Gunnar Hauge, barokkcello
Torun Torbo, traversfløyte
Anna Starr, barokkobo
Mariangiola Martello, cembalo
Jadran Duncumb, lutt/teorbe
Lars Notto Birkeland, orgel
06.12.2020 // 14.00 and 18.00 //
The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, stage 2
O VENEZIA!
Venezian serenade with baroque music by Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Legrenzi, Biagio Marini, Antonio Stradella, Bartolomeo Montalbano, Antonio Caldara and Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli.
Oslo Circles: Astrid Kirschner, baroque violin/leader -
Maria Ines Zanovello, baroque violin - Gunnar Hauge, baroque cello - Jadran Duncumb, theorbo - Mariangiola Martello, harpsichord
11.02.2021 // 18:00 // 20:00 // Sentralen, Oslo
PHANTASTICUS!
17th century baroque music in stylus phantasticus by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Biagio Marini, Giovanni Battista Fontana, marco Uccellini, Johannes Kapsberger, A. Piccinini and more.
24.02.2021 // 19:00 // Oslo Ladegård
Astrid Kirschner, baroque violin
Jadran Duncumb, theorbo
MAGNUS STAVELAND
17th century baroque music by Claudio Monteverdi, Johannes Rosenmüller, Dietrich Becker, Johann Pachelbel, Barbara Strozzi and Antonio Bertali
11.03.2021 // 19:00 // Gamle Aker kirke, Oslo
Magnus Staveland, tenor
Oslo Circles
PREVIOUS CONCERTS
PROJECTS
One Charming Night
An evening with David Hansen & Oslo Circles
Arias & theatre music
by Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
David Hansen, countertenor
Oslo Circles
Seicento Italiano!
Music of Falconieri, Marini, Fontana, Cazzati, Pandolfi Mealli, Kapsberger
Oslo Circles
The end of all good music is to affect the soul. - Claudio Monteverdi
Samuel Pepys' secret diary
Exerpts from
Samuel Pepys' diary
and music by Playford, Purcell, Marais, Falconieri, Locke, Hume
Anders Baasmo Christiansen, actor
Oslo Circles
De Profundis
Early German baroque music with three gambas
by Dietrich Buxtehude,
Johann Pachelbel,
Johann Christoph Bach,
Johann Michael Bach,
Johann Rosenmüller and Nicolaus Bruhns.
Halvor F. Melien, bassbaritone
Oslo Circles
In Bach's living-room
A family meeting with music for violin and traverso & bc by Johann Sebastian Bach,
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Jacob Bach and
Anna Magdalena Bach's Notenbüchlein
Oslo Circles
LAMENTO
Early Italian Maria lamentations.
Music by Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Merula, B.Ferrari, Uccellini, Leonarda, Cazzati
Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzosoprano
Oslo Circles
Canzoni da sonare
Early Italian instrumental music after vocal models.
Music by Frescobaldi, Uccellini, Sances, Picchi, Marini, Falconieri and Selma y Salaverde.
Oslo Circles
1685
Music written
or published in 1685, or by composers born in 1685.
Music by J.S.Bach, G.Fr.Händel, A.Corelli, A.Steffani, J.Playford, A.M. Charpentier
Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzosoprano)
Njål Sparbo (bassbaritone)
Oslo Circles
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