Since the 80s, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has continued to revisit Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. In his six concerti grossi, Bach deploys the instruments of the baroque orchestra in different, often audacious constellations.

In the music theatre project PASSIO, we meet ‘modern characters of the Bible’ who have become exemplary or iconic – their suffering being both heartbreaking and vital to remember.

Four outstanding early music virtuosos offer exciting new Händel interpretations with improvisational bravado and together with B’Rock they launch Lee Santana’s outlandish Hendrix variations.

At a time of global concern about the climate and ever louder calls for action, we are looking back at the experience of nature in the age of baroque music. We are doing this on the basis of Neun Deutsche Arien, a superb song-cycle composed by Georg Friedrich Händel and new music by Wim Henderickx

Nature has inspired baroque composers so much, because it lends itself to infinite variations.

Battle of Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Gli Incogniti

Blaring brass and precise drumrolls make Händel's Music for the Royal Fireworks joyful and stately. And his Water Music is musical pomp and circumstance in three high-spirited suites. With the energy, charisma and dizzying technique of violinist Dmitry Sinkovksy you will be on the edge of your seat.

In 2018, B’Rock Orchestra, together with René Jacobs, launched into an odyssey through Schubert’s nine symphonies. Now that symphonies 1, 2, 4 and 6 have revealed their secrets, they are taking a close look at the Fifth and Eighth symphonies. In between times, Nicolas Alstaedt resolves his demons in Haydn’s virtuoso First Cello Concerto.

Under the direction of Dmitry Sinkovsky, who is equally successful as a violinist, conductor and countertenor, and the soprano Robin Johannsen, whose voice and singing technique could already be experienced in Halle in a very impressive way, a flood of Händel's wonderful awaits us.

B'Rock travels to Japan for the very first time to play three concerts with the talented recorder player Lucie Horsch and traverso player Toshiyuki Shibata. With works from Vivaldi, Bach and Telemann, you can be sure of a highly animating evening. コンサートでお会いできて光栄です！

Catharsis in the form of six cantatas and more than two hours of music; that is Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. For the performance, B’Rock is joining forces with Chorwerk Ruhr. This German chamber chorus has worked its way up to the highest ranks among international choirs. Florian Helgath, its principal conductor plus a set of leading soloists, guarantee an impassioned performance of Bach’s Christmas classic.

Naples was one of the undisputed centers of European music in the Baroque period. The opera and the oratorio flourished both here, as did church music and chamber music. This journey to and through Naples, to the composers of the “Neapolitan School,” boils down to undiscovered works and sounds.