Event info

For the final concert of the Reykjavík Early Music Festival, Barokkbandið Brák invites its listeners to a feast of music by a generation of Europe’s most celebrated baroque composers. The thread connecting all these composers is 18th-century vocal superstar Faustina Bordoni: before she married J. S. Bach’s friend Johann Adolph Hasse, she developed her skills singing operas by Leonardo Leo, until her move to London saw her become a central figure in the musical scene, which rivals Handel and Porpora were both vying to dominate.

Faustina is embodied in this concert by Icelandic soprano Herdís Anna Jónasdóttir in cantatas by Handel and Porpora, framed by virtuosic instrumental works including Bach’s D minor violin concerto, performed by Brák’s artistic director Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir, and Leonardo Leo’s cello concerto in D major, performed by French baroque cellist Vladimir Waltham.

Flytjendur:
Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir, barokkfiðla
Herdís Anna Jónasdóttir, sópran
Vladimir Waltham, barokkselló
Barokkbandið Brák

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