Labirinto Musico

is a new ensemble, consisting of leading experts in the field of Early Music who have brought their performances to major cultural cities all over the globe. The name is taken from an article in the Musikalisches Lexicon by JS Bach’s nephew Johann Godfried Walther (1732), which explains the functioning of an ensemble setting.

The members of the ensemble,
Peter Holtslag recorder & transverse flute
Imke David viol & lirone
Rhoda Patrick dulcian & baroque bassoon
Carsten Lohff harpsichord
are of three nationalities, they are all based in Northern Germany and enjoy careers as performers working with colleagues such as Jordi Savall, Gustav Leonhardt, Frans Brüggen, René Jacobs, William Christie and Trevor Pinnock. They have recorded various CDs for companies such as Decca, DG/Archiv, Hyperion, Astrée, Harmonia Mundi and have taken part in radio- and televisionrecordings all over the world.
Two of the musicians are professors at leading music colleges in Bremen, Hamburg and London.

Labirinto Musico concentrates on music roughly between 1580 and 1780 and has two important guidelines in its performances -:
a) the aesthetic aspects of the various stylistic epochs, without making the mistake of dogmatic attitudes and
b) the richness of sounds with all the various instrumentation possibilities between the four members.
Thus, the repertoire reaches from early Italian baroque via French rokoko galanteries to early classical German music.

Labirinto Musico plays both in three-part and four-part settings.

Programmes :

„On the way towards Opera“ (Italian Canzonas and Sonatas towards the Operastyle of Monteverdi’s contemporaries )
„Germany in turmoil“ (Sturm und Drang : Benda, Richter Abel, CPE Bach, Müthel, Kleinknecht)
„Les Folies d´Espagne“ (Ostinati by Böddecker, Marais, Corelli, CPE Bach, Scarlatti)
„The enlarged EU in the 17th and 18th Centuries – Hanse cities and their composers“
( Amsterdam/Sweelinck, Deventer/Reinken, Hamburg/Weckmann, Telemann, Riga/Müthel
„a la francaise“ ( Frankreich von Couperin, Dieupart, Marais )
„The genteel companion“ ( English Musick for Lyra viol (Hume, Simpson), Virginal (Locke) as well as Händel, Babell and Abel