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Gentleman for a Day
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Barbara Heindlmeier | Ensemble La Ninfea

Gentleman for a Day

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Perfect Noise
UPC: 0719279934076
Catnr: PN 2401
Release date: 19 January 2024
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Perfect Noise
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0719279934076
Catalogue number
PN 2401
Release date
19 January 2024

"A little improvisation, a lot ornamentation: that is La Ninfea's approach. In there it proves difficult to remain true to the baroque; in itself not a killjoy, but an alienating hybrid in combination with the historical  story."

De Standaard, 24-1-2024
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Gentleman for a Day
Barbara Heindlmeier & La Ninfea spend a day as a gentleman in baroque London “Gentleman for a Day” is la Ninfea’s second production with Perfect Noise, this time with founding member and renowned recorder player Barbara Heindlmeier as the soloist, also known for her excitingly innovative concepts.

When thinking of a true London gentleman, the first thing that comes to mind are top hats and courteous behaviour, elegance and elevated status. Recorder, too? But of course! Well, the fine gentleman didn’t (yet) have a top hat around 1700, but of course it was excellent manners to have a recorder in your pocket for you to, for example, serenade the lady you adored at any given moment - a welcome occasion for Barbara Heindlmeier and her colleagues to be “Gentleman for a Day”. Everything is included: from getting up in the morning to going for a walk, visiting the royal court and going to the opera, to the obligatory five o’clock tea and preparing for the said serenade.

An exciting and busy day plotted out with music by composers such as G.F. Handel, H. Purcell, M. Locke and J. Playford. The Bremen baroque ensemble La Ninfea stands for the highest artistic standards. They have since made a name for themselves with creative, cross-genre concert formats. This baroque ensemble with a varying line-up is completely dedicated to the art of baroque ornamenation and improvisation. Their own contributions such as the divisions on ‘Strawberries and Cream’ or ‘John come kiss me now’ underline the richness of colour, emotional density and fast-moving contrasts so inherent to this repertoire.
Gentleman for a Day
Barbara Heindlmeier & La Ninfea verbringen einen Tag als Gentleman im barocken London
Mit „Gentleman for a Day“ legt La Ninfea nun seine zweite Produktion bei Perfect Noise vor,
diesmal mit der renommierten und für innovativen Konzepten bekannten Blockflötistin Barbara
Heindlmeier als Solistin, die auch Gründungsmitglied von La Ninfea ist.
Zylinder und zuvorkommendes Verhalten, Eleganz und exklusiver Status, daran denkt man sofort
bei einem echten Londoner Gentleman. Aber an eine Blockflöte? Natürlich!
Nun, Zylinder trug der feine Herr um 1700 (noch) nicht, aber selbstverständlich gehörte es zum
guten Ton, eine Blockflöte in der Tasche zu haben, um beispielsweise der angebeteten Lady
jederzeit ein Ständchen darbieten zu können – ein willkommener Anlass für Barbara Heindlmeier
und ihre Kolleg:innen einen Tag als Gentleman zu verbringen. Vom Aufstehen über Spaziergang,
Verpflichtungen bei Hofe, Opernbesuch bis hin zum obligatorischen five o'clock Tea und der
Vorbereitung auf besagtes Ständchen ist alles dabei.
Ein aufregender Tag nachgezeichnet mit Musik von G.F. Händel, H. Purcell, M. Locke, J. Playford
u.a.
Das Bremer Barockensemble La Ninfea steht für erstklassiges künstlerisches Niveau und hat sich
mittlerweile mit kreativen, spartenübergreifenden Konzertformaten einen Namen gemacht. Den
Farbreichtum, die emotionale Dichte und die schnelllebigen Kontraste dieses Repertoires
unterstreicht das Barockensemble mit variabler Besetzung und - ganz der Verzierungs- und
Improvisationskunst des Barock verschrieben - eigenen Beiträgen wie in den Divisions über
„Strawberries and Cream“ oder „John come kiss me now“.

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Ensemble La Ninfea

La Ninfea (Italian the water lily) “is one of the liveliest and most creative early music ensembles in Germany.” (Radio Bremen) The ensemble feels just as at home in renowned venues such as the Musikverein Wien or the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg as it does in small music societes or schools. This is because La Ninfea is convinced that music belongs to all places and can fascinate everyone, everywhere. La Ninfea's work focuses on concept-based programs, often developed as interdisciplinary projects with puppetry, text or dance, and thus reaches various people interested in culture in a direct and creative way. Historically informed performance practice, detailed research and creative communication do not contradict each other, rather combination they are the driving force for the...
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La Ninfea (Italian the water lily) “is one of the liveliest and most creative early music ensembles in Germany.” (Radio Bremen) The ensemble feels just as at home in renowned venues such as the Musikverein Wien or the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg as it does in small music societes or schools. This is because La Ninfea is convinced that music belongs to all places and can fascinate everyone, everywhere. La Ninfea's work focuses on concept-based programs, often developed as interdisciplinary projects with puppetry, text or dance, and thus reaches various people interested in culture in a direct and creative way. Historically informed performance practice, detailed research and creative communication do not contradict each other, rather combination they are the driving force for the ensemble. “This is how music should be performed: as if the ink wasn't yet dry, spontaneous and fresh, but with the most precise research beforehand.” (Oe1)
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Rachel Harris (violin)

Christian Heim (viola da gamba)

Nadine Remmert (harpsichord)

Composer(s)

Georg Friedrich Händel

Georg Frideric Handel was a composer from the Baroque period. Handel wrote primarily music-dramatic works: 42 operas, 29 oratorios, more than 120 cantatas, trios and duets, which comes to a total amount of almost 2000 arias! Furthermore, he composed English, Italian and Latin sacred music, serenades and odes. Among his instrumental music are several organ concertos, concerti grossi, overtures, oboe sonatas and violinsonates, along with many solo works for harpsichord and organ.  Together with Johann Sebastian Bach, who was born in the same year (1685), Handel is viewed as one of the greatest composers of his time. He was extremely prolific and wrote in total more than 610 works, many of which are still performed today.  Compared to his contemporaries Bach, Telemann...
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Georg Frideric Handel was a composer from the Baroque period. Handel wrote primarily music-dramatic works: 42 operas, 29 oratorios, more than 120 cantatas, trios and duets, which comes to a total amount of almost 2000 arias! Furthermore, he composed English, Italian and Latin sacred music, serenades and odes. Among his instrumental music are several organ concertos, concerti grossi, overtures, oboe sonatas and violinsonates, along with many solo works for harpsichord and organ.

Together with Johann Sebastian Bach, who was born in the same year (1685), Handel is viewed as one of the greatest composers of his time. He was extremely prolific and wrote in total more than 610 works, many of which are still performed today.

Compared to his contemporaries Bach, Telemann and Scarlatti, Handel was by far the most cosmopolitan. When Handel was a child, his father, who was a surgeon at the court of Saxe-Weissenfels, imagined a juridical career for him. But his musical talents did not go unnoticed at the court, which forced the father to let him study music. In Hamburg, Handel befriended Mattheson. Together they visited Buxtehude, the greatest organ player of his time, in 1703 (two years before Bach did). At that time, Handel was already an excellent musician, but it wasn't until his stay in Italy - the land of opera - that his talents and skills truly started to flourish. Back in Germany, he received a position at the court of Hannover, where the noblemen had a connection to the British throne. Thanks to these connections, Handel decided to move to London, after which a puzzling history of intrigues and political games started. For example, it is unclear what the exact political message of his famous Water Music is, which was composed for a boat ride on the river Thames by King George. Initially, Handel focused on Italian opera during his stay in London, but from the 1730s onwards he started composing English spoken oratorios, with the celebrated Messiah at its peak.


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Henry Purcell

Westminster Abbey is not just the place where British monarchs were crowned, it's also the place where many English great men were burried. Among those was also Henry Purcell. This final resting place had a double meaning for him: firstly, with his status as a composer he deserved a spot in the abbey, but secondly this was also the location where he worked during the reign of Charles II and William & Mary.  Most people will recognise the last aria of Purcell's beloved opera Dido and Aeneas: 'Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.' More abstract, but less trenchant are his brilliant Fantasias (for viola da gamba) which Purcell composed in the early 1680s. These are small, at times daringly expirimental works, which...
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Westminster Abbey is not just the place where British monarchs were crowned, it's also the place where many English great men were burried. Among those was also Henry Purcell. This final resting place had a double meaning for him: firstly, with his status as a composer he deserved a spot in the abbey, but secondly this was also the location where he worked during the reign of Charles II and William & Mary. Most people will recognise the last aria of Purcell's beloved opera Dido and Aeneas: "Remember me, but ah! forget my fate." More abstract, but less trenchant are his brilliant Fantasias (for viola da gamba) which Purcell composed in the early 1680s. These are small, at times daringly expirimental works, which he carefully dated. Yet, Purcell mostly developed himself as a composer of vocal music, with numerous odes, 'welcome songs', motets (anthems), songs for domestic use (both sacred and secular, both monophonic and polyphonic) and music for theatre.


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Press

A little improvisation, a lot ornamentation: that is La Ninfea's approach. In there it proves difficult to remain true to the baroque; in itself not a killjoy, but an alienating hybrid in combination with the historical  story.
De Standaard, 24-1-2024

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01.
Curtain Tune from “The Tempest”
01:16
(Matthew Locke) Barbara Heindlmeier, Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Rachel Harris, Ensemble La Ninfea
02.
Air from Fairy Queen
01:38
(Henry Purcell) Barbara Heindlmeier, Christian Heim, Simon Linné, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
03.
Solo: Poco Allegro/Adagio/Poco Allegro – Adagio – Allegro – Adagio/Spiccato – Largo – Allegro – Aria
06:08
(Andrew Parcham) Barbara Heindlmeier, Christian Heim, Simon Linné, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
04.
Divisions on “Pudding and Pies or Greensleeves”
02:56
(John Playford) Christian Heim, Simon Linné, Barbara Heindlmeier, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
05.
Sonata in D minor for recorder and b.c. HWV 386 a op.2/1: Largo
02:10
(Georg Friedrich Händel) Barbara Heindlmeier, Christian Heim, Nadine Remmert , Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Ensemble La Ninfea
06.
Sonata in D minor for recorder and b.c. HWV 386 a op.2/1: Vivace & Hornpipe HWV 461
03:19
(Georg Friedrich Händel) Barbara Heindlmeier, Christian Heim, Nadine Remmert , Simon Linné, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
07.
Sonata in D minor for recorder and b.c. HWV 386 a op.2/1: Furioso
02:22
(Georg Friedrich Händel) Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Nadine Remmert , Simon Linné, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
08.
Sonata in D minor for recorder and b.c. HWV 386 a op.2/1: Adagio
01:38
(Georg Friedrich Händel) Barbara Heindlmeier, Barbara Heindlmeier, Nadine Remmert , Christian Heim, Ensemble La Ninfea
09.
Sonata in D minor for recorder and b.c. HWV 386 a op.2/1: Alla breve
01:50
(Georg Friedrich Händel) Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Nadine Remmert , Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
10.
Sonata in D minor for recorder and b.c. HWV 386 a op.2/1: Andante
02:35
(Georg Friedrich Händel) Simon Linné, Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
11.
Sonata in D minor for recorder and b.c. HWV 386 a op.2/1: A tempo di minuet
01:39
(Georg Friedrich Händel) Barbara Heindlmeier, Christian Heim, Simon Linné, Barbara Heindlmeier, Nadine Remmert , Ensemble La Ninfea
12.
Ladies of London
03:25
(John Playford) Barbara Heindlmeier, Christian Heim, Simon Linné, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
13.
Vaghe fonti from “Agrippina” HWV 6
01:59
(Georg Friedrich Händel) Nadine Remmert , Rachel Harris, Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Ensemble La Ninfea
14.
Sonata in imitation of birds for 2 recorders, viol and b.c: Adagio
01:50
(William Williams) Barbara Heindlmeier, Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Rachel Harris, Nadine Remmert , Christian Heim, Ensemble La Ninfea
15.
Sonata in imitation of birds for 2 recorders, viol and b.c: Allegro
01:35
(William Williams) Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Rachel Harris, Nadine Remmert , Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
16.
Sonata in imitation of birds for 2 recorders, viol and b.c: Grave
01:17
(William Williams) Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Rachel Harris, Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
17.
Sonata in imitation of birds for 2 recorders, viol and b.c: Allegro
01:38
(William Williams) Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Rachel Harris, Nadine Remmert , Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
18.
Strawberries and cream
03:26
(John Playford) Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
19.
Sinfonia from “Giulio Cesare” HWV 17
02:27
(Georg Friedrich Händel) Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Rachel Harris, Nadine Remmert , Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
20.
Triosonata C minor for recorder, violin and b.c: Andante
03:36
(Georg Friedrich Händel) Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Rachel Harris, Nadine Remmert , Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
21.
Triosonata C minor for recorder, violin and b.c: Allegro
02:27
(Georg Friedrich Händel) Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Rachel Harris, Nadine Remmert , Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
22.
Triosonata C minor for recorder, violin and b.c: Largo
02:49
(Georg Friedrich Händel) Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Rachel Harris, Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
23.
Triosonata C minor for recorder, violin and b.c: Allegro
02:08
(Georg Friedrich Händel) Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Rachel Harris, Nadine Remmert , Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
24.
Ground after the Scotch Humour
02:15
(Nicola Matteis) Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Rachel Harris, Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
25.
Engels Nachtegaeltje
02:40
(Jacob van Eyck) Barbara Heindlmeier, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
26.
Curtain Tune on a ground from “Timon of Athens”
02:20
(Henry Purcell) Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Rachel Harris, Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
27.
John come kiss me now
03:06
(John Playford) Barbara Heindlmeier, Simon Linné, Rachel Harris, Nadine Remmert , Christian Heim, Barbara Heindlmeier, Ensemble La Ninfea
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