EUBO Mobile Baroque Academy

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Celebrating the European Day of Early Music on Monday 21 March 2016

The European Day of Early Music is held every year on 21st March to celebrate the Early Music as a common European cultural heritage as well as to mark the birthday of one of the most famous baroque composers, , born on 21st March 1685. The event is co-ordinated by the European Early Music Network REMA-EEMN.

On Monday 21 March 2016 the EUBO Mobile Baroque Academy joins in the celebrations of the European Day of Early Music by webcasting EUBO’s performance with its Music Director Lars Ulrik Mortensen recorded at the National Centre for Early Music in York (UK) last December. Information on all performances and streamings can be found on the website of the event at http://earlymusicday.eu/events/

Watch the ever-inspiring EUBO performing music for feasts and banquets by Biber and Telemann featuring the natural trumpet. This video showcases the highly accomplished playing of the EUBO musicians giving prominence to Venetian fashion in an oboe concerto by Marcello and including one of the most beautiful examples of the passacaglia in Muffat’s fifth Sonata from ‘Armonico Tributo’.

European Union Baroque Orchestra Lars Ulrik Mortensen, director & Aira Maria Lehtipuu, concertmaster

‘A Taste of the Baroque’

G MUFFAT (1653-1704) Sonata 5 in G from Armonico Tributo Allemanda – Adagio – Fuga – Adagio – Passacaglia

HIF BIBER (1644-1704) Sonata X in g minor & Sonata IV in C from Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes*

A MARCELLO (1684-1750) Concerto for oboe and strings in d minor** Andante spiccato – Adagio – Presto

GPh TELEMANN (1681-1767) Overture, Suite & Conclusion in D from Tafelmusik II*** Ouverture (lentement-vite-lentement) – Air I (tempo giusto) – Air II (vivace) – Air III (presto) – Air 4 (allegro) – Conclusion

* Paul Bosworth, trumpet ** Tatjana Zimre, oboe *** TWV55:D1 & TWV50:D9

“The young EUBO musicians play with a captivating freshness and vitality that is hard to match, though they are also as technically accomplished as the members of much more experienced groups.” (Early Music)

The EUBO Mobile Baroque Academy is a co-operation project organised by the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO) and nine other European organisations with co-funding from the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. The EMBA project nurtures the performance of Europe’s distinctive and shared heritage of , and the education of emerging Europe-wide talent, bringing baroque music to new audiences in innovative ways across Europe.

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