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European Union Baroque Orchetra (EUBO) – Delirium Amoris / French Taste (Live from St Nicholas’ Church, Tallinn, Nov 15th 2018)

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French taste or “le goût français” brings French Baroque masterpieces into St Nicholas’ church on November 15. The European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO) will perform the spectacular music from this era.
The program includes important French Baroque composers: the founder of the French violin school Jean-Marie Leclair, one of the leading French opera composers André Campra and organist, composer and author of musical method books Michel Corrette. EUBO will also bring to the audience the music of Georg Muffat, including the concert’s title piece Delirium amoris.
The European Union Baroque Orchestra is an orchestra like no other – it is is re-created anew every year, selecting from the finest young musical talent from all over the EU. Naturally, the orchestra plays on Baroque instruments and according to the tuning standards of the era. EUBO’s artistic director is known Baroque music specialist Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
Acclaimed Baroque violinist Amandine Beyer will conduct and be the soloist of the Tallinn concert.
Limited number of tickets available at Piletilevi.

The European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO) is like no other orchestra: its modus operandi since its foundation in 1985 has been to audition and select new personnel annually. EUBO’s ephemeral existence makes its concerts special: live performances enjoying all the technical accomplishment of the best young baroque musicians in Europe, allied to an infectious undimmed sense of discovery and enjoyment. “The skilful playing of this extraordinary pan-European orchestra… augurs well for the future of Baroque music-making in Europe.” (International Record Review, 2014) Members of EUBO come from all over the European Union to gain performing experience, working together under the inspirational leadership of Music Director Lars Ulrik Mortensen and some of the world’s finest Baroque musicians. Ton Koopman, Margaret Faultless, Enrico Onofri, Rachel Podger, Riccardo Minasi, Paul Agnew, Gottfried von der Goltz and Stefano Montanari have all been guest directors in recent seasons.

Tours take the talented young orchestra to all corners of Europe − from celebrated city concert halls, to seaside summer festivals, to monasteries nestling in autumnal forests, and to winter celebrations in beautiful churches. And at the centre of these great arcs of European travelling EUBO has established residencies in several cities, most notably as “orchestra-in-residence” in Echternach, Luxembourg, where, with the support of its local partners, it is creating a centre of excellence for Baroque music. Over the years EUBO has recorded several CDs, the last four under the direction of Lars Ulrik Mortensen. The CD release Peace & Celebration, featuring choral and orchestral works by Handel, was recorded live in concert in Londonwith the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, in September 2013. Gramophone magazine praised the refreshing spontaneity of this live recording. The rapturous dialogue of Mortensen and his youthful crew…put some more experienced Baroque bands to shame.” EUBO’s recording Pure Handel with soprano Maria Keohane was shortlisted for the 2014 Gramophone Awards: “a generous celebration of this estimable organisation’s (EUBO) continuing high achievement. These are live-wire performances, technically excellent and propelled with exactly the right degree of driving energy…” (Gramophone, August 2014).

Between 2015 and 2018, the activities of EUBO are an integral part of EUBO Mobile Baroque Academy, a Creative Europe co-operation project, co-funded by the European Union and organised by EUBO and its nine partners. The orchestra has been honoured with the status of Cultural Ambassador for the European Union in perpetuity. Flying the flag for Europe, “EUBO is” as former EC President Barroso says, “a perfect symbol of the power of integration, a subtle and potent instrument of harmonisation between people and nations”.

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