Duo Barbagliata
Anne-Suse Enßle and Reinhard Führer share a passion for chamber music that touches and compels audiences in concert.
In 2019, they released the project “Caffe=Hauß Zimmermann” with audax records, a recording that emulates common practices of the “Collegium Musicum” in Leipzig through the musicians’ own arrangements for the instrumentation of recorder and harpsichord.
Press reviews (selection, in translation):
“a brilliant idea to put a new spin on the recorder through a fictitious concert at the Leipzig ‘Caffe=Hauß Zimmermann’. Anne-Suse Enßle (recorder) and Reinhard Führer (harpsichord) succeed in this endeavour with a contagious joy of playing and beguiling sensuality.”
(Martin Hoffmann, Fono Forum, February 2020)
“Anne-Suse Enßle uses no less than six different instruments (by Luca de Paolis, the brothers Meyer and Andreas Schwob) to show off each piece’s exuberant playfulness, spiritual power or demand for virtuosic play. The two soloists perform the concert program containing their own arrangements with breath-taking bravura. The sound is always round and full, the recording technique excellent. Whoever has had more than enough of apocalyptic news these days and wants to take some time just for themselves is well-advised to listen to this CD and the occasionally somewhat self-absorbed, yet always inspired beauty of these Baroque soundscape.”
(Dr. Ingobert Waltenberger, Onlinemerker, Februar 2020)
The concert program “Le Rossignol-en-Amour: Sweeping Cascades and Enamoured Nightingales” takes the audience on a journey through the splendour of French Baroque music. This program comprises works from the French High Baroque for one solo instrument accompanied by a harpsichord. Pieces composed strictly in the French tradition are combined with works of an almost Italian character, mirroring the abundance of Baroque musical movements in France. Apart from Jean-Marie Leclair, all composers worked in the orbit of Ludwig XIV’s court. The musical pieces presented in this concert are but a few examples of the richness of pleasurable amusements that were offered at the court of the Sun King daily and the sophisticated culture and artists that the monarch had at his disposal at any time. A few of the pieces were arranged by us for the recorder and harpsichord – a common and popular practice in Baroque times.
The musical illustration of natural spectacles, such as the enamoured nightingale or the cascades of St. Cloud are typical rhetorical devices in Baroque music. Couperin’s concert “Ritratto dell’Amore” portrays different emotional states experienced in the context of love. The audience may hence let themselves be transported to Baroque France for one evening, where they can enjoy musical allegories and dream away to a world where enamoured nightingales are singing at the waterfall of St. Cloud…