It was a very busy night. We had a jazz gig that I couldn't do, and thank you tickets to Luminescence that we couldn't take up and a Motown show band was live at the Germo, but we'd bought tix to the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra at our local concert hall and we had hosted one of their two MDs for a CIMF in the past, so it was meant to be. In the end, the other MD came but it was an excellent performance. This group has a myriad of albums! They play superbly capable baroque with authentic instruments and their members sit in with plenty of important baroque orchestras around Europe. I was not so sure of the first set perhaps, perhaps the fortepiano concerto was less frequently played. The keyboard could get lost in the mix and it wasn't quite so together, but the second set was settled and blissful, probably tunes they play incessantly and they were superb: accurate, together, intoned, expressive. I was eyeing the bass lying on stage in the interval then Dina Kehl came to tune up and we chatted. Violine, gut, frets, tuning (perhaps FADF♯A), bow (big, convex, German). I looked up Dina later and she has all manner of interesting musical projects: take a look. Mostly her task was pretty simple if nicely done, but there were some semiquaver runs that had me in awe, so fast and clear and not at all faked. But as it should be with a group at this level. The music as pretty obvious: JC Bach symph Gmin, Mozart piano conc no.9 Eb, Mozart violin conc no.5 Amaj, Mozart symph no.40 Gmin. And a final, short encore. Impressive but also just so lovely. And nice to meet Dina and to catch up with various friends in the audience. This was a big and satisfying one.
The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra performed at Snow Concert Hall with soloists Kristian Bexuidinhout (pianoforte) and Gottfried von der Goltz (violin, MD) and bass ender Dina Kehl (violone).
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