»You’re in the mood for dance, and when you get the chance: You are a dancing queen!« – Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) and ABBA (1972)
It seems audacious to combine these two absolute giants of European music history. However, upon closer inspection, countless similarities can be found. The originality and catchiness of their melodies, the rhythmic liveliness, as well as their unbridled popularity. Under the title »Dancing Queen«, the lautten compagney builds a bridge from the present to a time when it was less the queens and more the kings who could be found on the dance floor. As in other cross-epochal projects by the Berlin ensemble, ABBA’s music is arranged and played on Baroque instruments, and not merely juxtaposed with Rameau’s music. The music is sometimes fused in such a way that it is almost impossible to tell what comes from the pen of the High Baroque Frenchman and what from the workshop of the Swedish pop quartet.
PERFORMERS
lautten compagney BERLIN ensemble
Asya Fateyeva saxophone
Wolfgang Katschner director
PROGRAM
»Dancing Queen«
