La Ninfea turns 15!
Celebrate with us!
Here you can find information about the 2024/25 anniversary season!
Save the date:
Di 17.9. DANZAS at Wedeler Musiktagen (Tickets now available: Tickets)
Do 19.9. DANZAS in Hannover
So 22.9. ERDBEEREN MIT SAHNE – musikalische Leckerbissen frisch serviert!
at Glocke Bremen (Großer Saal)
Sun 22.9.24 5.00 PM
Erdbeeren mit Sahne – Musikalische Leckerbissen frisch serviert
In cooperation with „Musik im Ohr" Glocke Bremen
Tickets Available Now!
“Strawberries and Cream” by John Playford was a real hit in England in the 17th century! How about bringing it and other famous melodies such as Greensleeves into our modern world? This is exactly what you can experience in La Ninfea's festive anniversary concert for young and old, in which the ensemble presents its own song texts, dances and arrangements with the Bremen Cathedral Girls' Choir - witty, cheeky and modern!
Tip! In the workshop before the concert, small instruments can be made and played during the concert. From 4 pm!
Jörg Hilbert, texts/lute
Mirko Ludwig, Tenor
Catalina Lotte-Fooken & Thomas Lotte, Tango argentino
Johanna Bethge, Choreography Youth Choir
Mädchenkantorei am Bremer Dom (Conductor: Markus Kaiser)
Ensemble La Ninfea
Barbara Heindlmeier, recorder
Christian Heim, viol/recorder
Marthe Perl, viol
Rachel Harris, Baroque violin
Simon Linné, archlute/baroque guitar/cittern
Mira Lange, harpsichord
Stefan Gawlick, percussion
Tickets: 12/8€
Event organizer: Glocke Veranstaltungs-GmbH in Kooperation mit Ensemble La Ninfea GbR
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Coming Soon: Anniversary ALbum „Danzas – From Taboo to Triumph"
Album Release: Fri 13.9.2024
Danzas –
from Taboo to Triumph
Inspired by once forbidden dances, La Ninfea combines what doesn't really belong together - tango & chaconne, sarabande & waltz, from Monteverdi to Mozart, from Handel to Piazzolla. A musical bridge across centuries and conventions - this music has never been heard like this before!
Album Release: 13.9.24
Single Releases: 26.7./13.8./30.8.
Release concerts
Tue 17.9. Wedeler Musiktage with Catalina Lotte-Fooken & Thomas Lotte (Tango argentino) I www.wedeler-musiktage.de
Thu 19.9. Hannover:n »Danzas« at Eilienriedestifts Hannover I www.eilenriedestift.de/leben/kultur/
Sun 22.9. Bremen Die Glocke: »Erdbeeren mit Sahne – musikalische Leckerbissen frisch serviert!« with Highlights from »Danzas« (Catalina Lotte-Fooken & Thomas Lotte: Tango argentino) in Kooperation with „Musik im Ohr" Glocke Bremen I www.glocke.de
DANZAS - from taboo to triumph: Initially frowned upon and forbidden, but finally socially accepted and à la mode: in several waves - around 1600 with the sarabande and ciaccona and around 1900 with the tango - the infectious rhythms of Latin American dances conquered the whole of Europe and led to a kind of dance fever...
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Looking BacK:
Highlights of the Anniversary season 2024/25
Sun 30.6.24 10.00 PM "The Day, the Cicada sang" (Version for Radio)
Concert recording from 23.6.23 from the Sendesaal Bremen with audiostream 1.7.-7.7. here on the homepage
“... [a] firework display of sound colors consisting of breathtaking flute tones, beguiling viola da gamba singing, crystal-clear, sparkling harpsichord playing and powerful, sensitive lute and guitar playing. This was met with jubilant applause and standing ovations.” (Weserkurier)
“The Day the Cicada Sang” allows music and scenery to interweave, creating a dense web of music, words and images. Not only is the music performed, but it itself becomes part of the story; it is its theme, at the same time lending the story its form. It is through being developed that music is brought to life, and here this happens through encounters and exchanges. A Venetian flautist and a Mexican viol player meet, guided by the cicada’s inspiration as the mythical embodiment of art. During their journey (on which they are accompanied by a mysterious, song-collecting flute player and his comical alter ego Mr. Koko), their musical traditions merge into something new. “The Day the Cicada Sang” gathers Venetian, Neapolitan, Spanish and Mexican music of the 17th and 18th centuries, combines virtuosic opera and concert repertoire with sacred music as well as traditional folk music from different regions and tells a unifying story of people and music.
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