In these concerts, la festa musicale, together with trombonist Nils Landgren, explores new territory in Baroque music: they bridge genres, with the core and starting point of the program being compositions by the Hanoverian court kapellmeisters Steffani, Händel, and Venturini.
General Info
Date: February 26 and 27, 2027
Time: 7:30 PM each day
Location: Orangerie Herrenhausen, Hanover
Duration: approx. 100 minutes including intermission
Tickets: €50 / €40 / €30 / €20, reduced €25 / €20 / €15 / €10
Notes: An event of the Forum Agostino Steffani e. V. in cooperation with Herrenhausen Barock. The box office opens one hour before the start of the event. Tickets entitle you to enter the Great Garden on the day of the event (please note the regular opening hours).
Reduced Prices
Reduced rates apply to pupils, trainees, students and volunteers up to the age of 30, people with a degree of disability of at least 50 and HannoverAktivPass holders. Children under the age of 6 do not need a ticket if they do not have their own seat.
Performers
Nils Landgren – trombone
la festa musicale
Anne Marie Harer – conductor
Program
Works originally by Agostino Steffani, Francesco Venturini and Georg Friedrich Händel
Description
With this program, the orchestra la festa musicale leaves the familiar Baroque shore and explores new ground. Together with internationally sought-after jazz trombonist Nils Landgren, the musicians bridge genres.
The core and starting point of the program are compositions by the Hanoverian court kapellmeisters Steffani, Händel, and Venturini: dance suites and concertos are performed with la festa musicale in their original form, opera arias in instrumental version, and together they form the springboard for improvisations between styles. Sometimes Nils Landgren integrates into the historical sounds with a Baroque trombone, sometimes he inspires the “old musicians” to something completely new. Hanover-composed Baroque music is thus “let off the leash”!
What can you expect from this evening? Nils Landgren does some ancestor research with his trombone, la festa musicale experiments with a musical fresh cell treatment for wild Baroque curls, and the audience experiences a wonderfully entertaining evening!
An event of the Forum Agostino Steffani e.V. in cooperation with Herrenhausen Barock.
