Music is the Cure
or La Ninfea's musical medicine chest
The concert that makes you healthy and immortal...
Music is the Cure!
A concert hosted by the ensemble that plumbs the darkest depths of musical healing and the brightest praises of recovery, with pieces by composers such as Marais and Purcell. Put together as part of a birthday concert for a pharmacist, the programme was also released on CD in March 2020. It brings together pieces about illness, recovery and even remedies: oil of barley, drosera (sundew), medicine for spider bites or a musical gallstone operation. The medicinal themes find their way to the stage in compositions by Purcell, Kircher, Lully, Charpentier and Marais.
The CD for the program was released by Perfect Noise in March 2020.
Album: Music is the Cure
A baroque kaleidoscope of exquisite chamber music and musical remedies: 1 common thread, 6 musicians, 20 instruments, 27 different instrumentations.
Press:
“The members of La Ninfea are people who not only search for notes with a sense of research, but also put them into practice. They really make use of all the freedom for creativity that baroque performance practice offers. The way they use their arsenal of no less than twenty instruments ensures a successful outcome.”
“A grandiose program, highly entertaining and polished. So if you are currently in quarantine, you should definitely not miss out on consulting La Ninfea's musical medicine chest. The musicians cure boredom immediately. Definitely listen to it!”
“The album Music is the Cure! Or La Ninfea's Musical Medicine Chest not only offers unusual works of music history, unusual arrangements, improvisations and instruments, but is also balm for the soul in these times.” (WDR 3 Tonart)
“...depth of thought, musical intelligence, virtuoso brilliance and a rarely heard mastery of the color palette [...] I have rarely heard the recorder so nobly, so tastefully.”
(Windkanal)