Lautten Compagney Berlin

Lautten Compagney is an instrumental ensemble based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1984 by Hans-Werner Apel and Wolfgang Katschner, now the principal conductor, it specialises in Early music and Baroque music, notably the operas of Handel.

Lautten Compagney was founded in 1984 as a lute duo by lutenists Hans-Werner Apel and Wolfgang Katschner. The ensemble grew and plays in varied formation, specialising in Early music and Baroque music, notably the operas of Handel. Katschner is the principal conductor, Abel plays in the continuo group. Twice a year the group runs a festival, AEQUINOX, in Neuruppin.

The ensemble has frequently played choral works in concert and recording, collaborating with notable singers and ensembles. In varied formation from chamber ensemble to opera orchestra, they performed with vocal ensemble Capella Angelica, also founded by Katschner, and the Berliner Singakademie, works including Handel's Der Messias and Bach's Passions. In 2007 they recorded cantatas by Dieterich Buxtehude. In 2010 they performed Bach's Köthener Trauermusik in the reconstruction by Alexander Ferdinand Grychtolik in the Sophienkirche Berlin. In 2011 they played Handel's opera Rinaldo, 300 years after its premiere, with Valer Barna-Sabadus in the title role. In 2012 they performed Handel's oratorio La resurrezione, staged by Kobie van Rensburg, and Bach's Christmas Oratorio.For the Rheingau Musik Festival's annual Marienvesper at Eberbach Abbey, they performed Monteverdi's Vespers in 2013 with ensemble amarcord and five additional guest singers.

Program and cast

PERFORMERS
Lautten Compagney Berlin
Wolfgang Katschner musical direction
Dorothee Mields | soprano
PROGRAM
Love's Madness - Henry Purcell & English Folk Songs
N.N.: Bedlam Boys
Henry Purcell: 'Tis women makes us love. A catch
Henry Purcell: Then mad, very mad let us be
Henry Purcell: Fantasia "Three parts upon a ground"
Henry Purcell: I'll sail upon the dog star
Henry Purcell: Jack thou'rt a Toper. A catch
Henry Purcell: The Triumphant Dance
Robert Johnson: A Forsaken Lover's Complaint
Henry Purcell: Oh the sweet delights of love
Henry Purcell: Dance of Bacchanals
Henry PurcellOh Solitude!
Henry Purcell: Fantasia upon one note
Henry Purcell: Sing Ye Druids
Henry Purcell: Often she visits this lov'd mountain
Robert Johnson: Full fathom five
Henry Purcell: Rondeau
Henry Purcell: Beneath a poplar's shadow
John Gay / Johann Christoph Pepusch: Grim King of the Ghosts
Henry Purcell: From silent shades: Bess of Bedlam
Matthew Locke: Curtain tune in The Tempest
Henry Purcell: The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation
N.N.: The Cruel Mother
Henry Purcell: Once, twice, thrice. A catch
N.N.: William and Margaret
Anonymous: The Willow Song
Henry Purcell: Charon the Peaceful Shade
Thomas Ravenscroft: The Three Ravens
Henry Purcell: Ground in c
Anonymous: Ophelia's Mad Song
Henry Purcell: Dido's Lament from "Dido and Aeneas"
Henry Purcell: With drooping wings
N.N.: Bedlam Boys