JOACHIM HELD - Concerts

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3. January 2010
DE - Hamburg, Opera
Christmas Oratorio - Conductor: Allessandro de Marchi

www.hamburgische-staatsoper.de

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10./14 January 2009
DE - Düsseldorf, Opera
"Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria" by C. Monteverdi

www.rheinoper.de

24. January 2009
DE - Basel, Zinzendorfhaus
Solo Concert "Basler Lautenabende"

www.lauten-abende.ch

6. February 2009
DE - Rendsburg, Marienkirche
Solo Concert

www.st-marien-rendsburg.de

7./8. February 2009
DE - Rendsburg, Nordkolleg
Lute Music for "Gitarrist" - Course

www.nordkolleg.de

20./22./26. February 2009
DE - Munich, Opera
"La Calisto" by F. Cavalli

www.muenchner-opern-festspiele.de

11. March 2009
DE - Nürnberg, "Musica Antiqua" des BR
Concert with Bettina Pahn, Soprano

www.gnm.de

27./29. March 2009
DE - Düsseldorf, Deutsche Oper am Rhein
"L´Incoronazine di Poppea" by C. Monteverdi

www.rheinoper.de

29. March 2009
DE - Leverkusen, Schloß Morsbroich
"Wunderbare Wandlungen der Barockmusik", Solo Concert

www.museum-morsbroich.de

1./3. April 2009
DE - Düsseldorf, Deutsche Oper am Rhein
"L´Incoronazine di Poppea" by C. Monteverdi

www.rheinoper.de

16. May 2009
DE - Harzgerode
Concert with Bettina Pahn, Soprano

www.harzgerode.de

28. May 2009
DE - Eckelshausen, "Eckelshausener Musiktage"
Concert with Bettina Pahn, Soprano

www.eckelshausener-musiktage.de

24./27./30 May 2009
DE - Hamburg, Opera
"Iphigenie en Aulide" by C. Gluck

www.hamburgische-staatsoper.de

2./5./9./12 June 2009
DE - Hamburg, Opera
"Iphigenie en Aulide" by C. Gluck

www.hamburgische-staatsoper.de

18. June 2009
DE - Düsseldorf, Deutsche Oper am Rhein
"Il ritorno d´Ulisse" by C. Monteverdi

www.rheinoper.de

19. June 2009
DE - Düsseldorf, Deutsche Oper am Rhein
"L´Incoronazine di Poppea" by C. Monteverdi

www.rheinoper.de

1.- 4. July 2009
DE - Bad Alexandersbad
Lute Course - Festival Mitte Europa

www.festival-mitte-europa.com

31. July 2009
DE - Wörlitz, Schloß
Concert with Bettina Pahn, Soprano
German Popular & Baroque songs

www.woerlitz-information.de

1. August 2009
DE - Bad Alexandersbad, Festival Mitte Europa
Concert with Bettina Pahn (Soprano)
German Popular songs & Fairy Tale

www.festival-mitte-europa.com

6. August 2009
DE - Hohenweststedt, Schleswig-Holstein-Festival
Concert with Bettina Pahn, Soprano
German Popular & Baroque songs

www.shmf.de

13. September 2009
NL - Den Haag, Anton Phillips Saal
Chamber Concert with Wallfishband and Michael Chance

www.ldt.nl

2. October 2009
DE - Hamburg, Laeiszhalle
Concert with the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Marcus Creed

www.elbphilharmonie.de/laeiszhalle.de

9. October 2009
DE - Kempen
"Theodora" by G. Fr. Händel - Conductor: P. Neumann

www.kempen.de

10. October 2009
DE - Köln, St. Maria im Kapitol
"Theodora" by G. Fr. Händel - Conductor: P. Neumann

www.koelner-kammerchor.de

17./20./23./29. October 2009
DE - Hamburg, Opera
"Iphigenie en Tauride" - Conductor: Allessandro de Marchi

www.hamburgische-staatsoper.de

27. November 2009
DE - Dresden
Chamber Concert with Bettina Pahn, Soprano

www.dresden.de

29. November 2009
DE - Dortmund, Schloß Bodelschwingh
Chamber Concert with Bettina Pahn, Soprano

www.schloss-bodelschwingh.de

2. Dezember 2009
DE - Lübeck, Dom
Chamber Concert with Bettina Pahn, Sopran0

www.domzuluebeck.de

23./27./29. December 2009
DE - Hamburg, Opera
Christmas Oratorio - Conductor: Allessandro de Marchi

www.hamburgische-staatsoper.de

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Musique pour le Roi
French Lute Music of the Baroque
(Release: 2008)

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Label: Hänssler Classic
ASIN: B001ARARUK

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In the seventeenth century France became the centre of lute music in Europe. The French lutenists, no longer content with the generally accepted tuning of the lute, started looking for new tuning intervals to meet their idea of more complex and sophisticated chords and, above all, more volume of tone. Quite different systems of tuning were tried out and resulted in marvellous music. Finally a tuning system in D Minor based on thirds emerged, and this allowed playing in keys which so far were not generally included in the lute repertoire. This D Minor tuning remained the dominant once until the decline of the instrument towards the end of the eighteenth century. The change of the tuning system was accompanied by a change in musical style. In France, representatives of the classical lute music gradually developed slightly different forms of the socalled style brisé, characterized by an elaborate blend of the voices as well as startling breaks within the melodies.

Composers:
Ennemond Gaultier, Jacques Gallot, Charles Mouton, Robert de Visée and François Couperin.

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Pressestimmen

"After his jouney to Italy „Che Soávita“ Joachim Held now stops with his Solo Recital „Musique pour le Roi“ at the Houses of Nobility in France of the Baroque. For this he chose Suites of composers like Jacques Gallot, Charles Mouton and Robert de Visée, who were high esteemed Lutenists who worked near to the highest Nobility like Louis XIV. Since the recordings of Helds teacher, at the latest, Hopkinson Smith these names are known not only to Early Music Enthusiasts. Thank to Joachim Held, who made the lute more popular in the last years, the worth of this precious music will be increased many times.

Superficially the dances follow the normal Suite. Even in the old recordings of Konrad Ragossnig and Anthony Bailes, one could could imagine the internal gestures of this „sound microcosm“, but Held fulfills the concentrated Rhethoric with a variety of Colours and Variability which is only rarely heard. With the Theorbo and 11 - course Baroque lute, which both are from the workshop of Klaus Jacobsen in London, he plays with a admiringly clearness for the contrasts of tension and intensity, which point out the strictness and dignity, Contemplation and Calmness in perfection."
Rondo Magazin
10.10.08 / Guido Fischer

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