A double finale - Living its 20 years!

To bring the Festival to a spectacular close, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin returns with a program entirely devoted to Baroque dance—that court art form that reigned from Versailles to Vienna, from the minuet to the gaillarde. Purcell, Lully, Schmelzer, Telemann, Vivaldi, Rebel: a dazzling tour of Europe, led by violinist Georg Kallweit and featuring the stage presence of Yves Ytier, concertmaster and dancer. The dizzying variations of the Follia in Vivaldi and Geminiani, the magnificence of Lully, the fantasy of Rebel: a closing concert worthy of the 20th edition of the Festival.

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Suite, from the opera The Fairy Queen, Z. 629

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1623-1680)
Arie con la Mattacina in D major (Ballet Music)

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Suite, from the comédie-ballet Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, LVW 43

Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Concerto Grosso No. 12 in D minor “La Follia” (after Corelli)

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Overture-Suite in B-flat major “Les Nations”, TWV 55:B5 (Völker-Ouvertüre)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Trio Sonata in D minor op. 1 No. 12, RV 63 “La Follia” 

Jean Féry Rebel (1666-1747)
Ballet Suite – Les Caractères de la Danse 

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Georg Kallweit, first violin
Yves Ytier, first violin & dance