Apollo's Cabinet - Musical Wanderlust: Charles Burney's European Travels in Pursuit of Harmony (2024) [Hi-Res/MP3]

Murders, drinking songs, Cinderella stories, virtuosic cantatas, European tours, serene polyphony and candlelit rituals all feature in the evocative and story driven programmes of Apollo’s Cabinet. Winners of the Göttingen Händel Competition and the Maurizio Pratola competition in 2022, the group bring a signature mix of acting, dancing, poetry and silliness to bring historical performance to modern audiences. They have furthermore won the Brian Nisbet Prize for their fusion of Music and Poetry and most recently the F. J. Aumann Prize of the International Biber Competition for innovation and new discoveries in Baroque music.

Recently completing a tour of Scotland generously supported by the Tunnell Trust, the group has performed across the UK and Europe including the London Handel Festival, Felix! Festival Köln, The Georgian Concert Society Edinburgh, :alpenarte Schwarzenberg and the Brighton Early Music Festival.

The ensemble is dedicated to educational outreach for children as well as adults, and members have designed and offered workshops and educational concerts in collaboration with the Royal Opera House, Centre for Young Musicians, Brighton Early Music Festival, English National Opera and Wigmore Hall.

This season, Apollo’s Cabinet will be performing their Charles Burney programme at Vienna Konzerthaus, Montafoner Resonanzen and AMUZ Antwerpen, amongst others.

Their latest show was a new interactive musical theatre production about the cold case of Jean-Marie Leclair’s murder, generously supported by Continuo Foundation and Angel Early music and their next CD will showcase the life of soprano and actor Kitty Clive, star of the London theatre stage during the 18th century, which will be released next year.

"Their debut CD is an engaging travelogue. Alexander Armstrong narrates from the diary entries of Charles Burney, the august historian who took two European tours in the early 1770s and made it his business to record the musical state of the continent…it’s all dispatched with plenty of freewheeling spirit."

“Apollo’s Cabinet are adding storylines and scenarios to illuminate already dramatic music, while erasing the interactive gap between stage and audience.”

Tracklist
01. Opening credits
02. Introduction
03. Paris
04. Concerto comique No. 25 in G Minor: III. La Furstemberg
05. Venice
06. Canzonette veneziane da battello: Raccolta di gondoliere 'Mia cara Anzoletta'
07. Florence
08. Concerto in G Minor La Notte, RV 439: I. Largo
09. Concerto in G Minor La Notte, RV 439: IV. Allegro
10. Vienna
11. Balletti à 4 'Pastorella': I. Intrada
12. Balletti à 4 'Pastorella': II. Pastorella
13. Balletti à 4 'Pastorella': III. Hötzer seu Amener
14. Balletti à 4 'Pastorella': IV. Gavotta Tedesca
15. Balletti à 4 'Pastorella': V. Gavotta Anglica
16. Balletti à 4 'Pastorella': VI. Gavotta Styriaca
17. Balletti à 4 'Pastorella': VII. Gavotta Gallica
18. Balletti à 4 'Pastorella': VIII. Gavotta Bavarica
19. Prague
20. Partita XIII in G Major: I. Andante
21. Partita XIII in G Major: II. Allegretto 'Les cloches'
22. Leipzig
23. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 1
24. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 30 'Quodlibet'
25. Kraut und Rüben
26. Hamburg
27. Der geduldige Socrates, TWV 219: Mich tröstet die Hoffnung
28. Ghent
29. Six Sonatas of Two Parts Fitted and Contriv'd for Two Flutes: Sonata II: Largo - Allegro
30. Amsterdam
31. Den man te quart staande, zingt
32. The end of my tour
33. The Despairing Shepherd: I. The sun was sunk beneath the hills
34. The Despairing Shepherd: II. Who seeks to pluck the fragrant rose
35. The Despairing Shepherd: III. Oh! Sylvia
36. An Ode to Music
37. Bonny Jean
38. The Duke of Norfolk
39. John Come Kiss Me Now