A baroque feast with Dmitry Sinkovsky

For over twenty years, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra has played at the top of European Baroque orchestras. It comes to Amsterdam with a late Baroque extravaganza of three iconic masterpieces.

Unprecedentedly colorful dance music
The ballet music Les élemens, in which Jean-Féry Rebel describes the four elements, is unique in music history. In depicting the "chaos" in the first bars, we seem to have entered Stravinsky's Paris rather than Louis XV's. Yet Les élemens is also pure French Baroque: colorful and graceful.

Handel's Water Music
Handel's Water Music is also a collection of Baroque dances. But in this case, there was no dancing. The music sounded during a boat ride on the Thames by King George I and his entourage. Some fifty musicians played the music from another boat. Numerous listeners had flocked in their own boats to hear these sumptuous new pieces, according to a newspaper report.
With the flamboyant Dmitry Sinkovsky, who leads the orchestra in good Baroque fashion as first violinist, this becomes a real feast. And he also solos in one of Bach's delightful violin concertos!