Orpheus and the Lyra Viol
6.09.2026 at 4:00 PM
Ratusz Staromiejski ul. Korzenna 33/35
PROGRAM
- Gabriel Voigtländer – Als Orpheus schlug sein Instrument
- Dieterich Stöeffken – Suite in D: Allemande-Courante
- John Dowland – Fantasia
- G. Voigtländer – Ein Sommerliedlein
- J. Dowland – Muss denn mein Herz in traurn, Balletto la pace
- William Corkine – Coranto
- Diomedes Cato – Fantasia Ut Re Mi
- G. Voigtländer – Von dem wanckelbaren Glück
- Daniel Norcombe – Tregian’s Ground
- J. Dowland – Lachrimae Pavan
- G. Voigtländer – Klaglied
- W. Corkine (after J. Dowland) – If my Complaints
- G. Voigtländer – Gute Freunde
- J. Dowland – The Most High and Mighty Christian IV. King of Denmark His Galliard
- D. Norcombe – Division in D
- John Dowland – “Sleep wayward thoughts” (Gdańsk lute tablature)
- Diomedes Cato – Canzona Diomedis
- William Corkine – Ayres from Books I and II
Art d’Echo
The ensemble Art d’Echo was founded in 2010 by viola da gamba player Juliane Laake. Since then, she has used this ensemble featuring varying line-ups to realize her own musical projects. The musicians selected for these projects all outstanding specialists in their field enrich her work with their immense musical inspiration and profound knowledge of performance practice. The focus lies on the diverse repertoire for the viola da gamba, showcased through ambitious program concepts. Numerous CD recordings, radio broadcasts, concert and festival appearances, and multiple award nominations bear witness to the ensemble’s successful work.
CDs by Juliane Laake and Ensemble Art d’Echo have received multiple nominations for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics’ Award), the International Classical Music Award (ICMA), and the OPUS Klassik.
Michael Freimuth
Michael Freimuth lives near Kiel and has travelled as a soloist and continuo player with leading baroque orchestras under renowned conductors in Europe, the USA, Japan and South Korea. He studied guitar and lute in Essen, Vienna and Cologne. Important teachers were Karl Scheit, Konrad Ragossnig and Konrad Junghänel. Michael Freimuth focuses on lute and guitar music of the 16th – 19th century. He owns an original lute from 1740 and a harp guitar from 1847. Following the lute works by Silvius Leopold Weiss from Schloss Rohrau, another CD recording of previously unknown compositions was released in 2017 with sonatas by Michele Platano.
Georg Poplutz
The lied and oratorio tenor Georg Poplutz, highly regarded for his tonal sensitivity and expressiveness, is one of the most sought-after performers of baroque music. He grew up in Arnsberg, Germany, and after completing his teacher training in Muenster and Dortmund, he studied voice in Frankfurt / Main and Cologne with Berthold Possemeyer and Christoph Prégardien. Since 2010, he has been advised vocally by Carol Meyer-Bruetting.
Poplutz performs at renowned festivals and in important concert halls and churches in Germany and abroad Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, Rudolf Lutz, Hermann Max, Ralf Otto, Andrzej Szadejko, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Christoph Spering, Michael A. Willens, and Roland Wilson, among others. Concert tours have also taken him to China, Georgia, Mexico, Singapore and South Africa. Among the numerous radio and currently about 125 CD or DVD recordings in which Poplutz has appeared as soloist are several cantatas for the J.S.Bach-Stiftung St. Gallen (CH) with Lutz, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Passions with Otto, and numerous works for the Heinrich Schütz complete recording with Rademann, which was awarded the „Opus Klassik“ 2020. He also sang in the Oratorio Secondo by Johann Daniel Pucklitz with Szadejko, also awarded this Price in 2022. Two solo-CDs with baroque cantatas and songs were released in 2022, „Das ist meine Freude“ with Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble and Arno Paduch, and „Ich bin mit Gott vergnügt – zuversichtlich durch die Zeiten“ with Telemann Ensemble Frankfurt and Andreas Köhs.
Poplutz also dedicates himself with great enthusiasm to a wide repertoire of songs, together with his long-time piano partner Hilko Dumno. With his organ partner Jürgen Banholzer and his guitar partners Antje Asendorf & Stefan Hladek, Poplutz performed together in Gdansk in 2022 and 2015. Some of the songs are also available on recordings, the latest of which (2023) with poems by Eichendorff by several composers with Rudolf Lutz on the piano, and Songs of Flowers and Trees (2025) with C. Bertucci, Sopran, and T. Dravenau, Piano.
Juliane Laake
Juliane Laake studied viola da gamba at the University of the Arts Bremen and at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. A scholarship holder of the German Music Council and a prize-winner at the International Telemann Competition, she has since made a name for herself at the Leipzig Bach Festival and numerous other prestigious early music festivals: She has performed in cities including Utrecht, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Zurich, Tel Aviv and Sydney, and regularly collaborates with ensembles such as the Lautten Compagney, Weser-Renaissance and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, as well as with renowned soloists such as Hille Perl and Dorothee Mields and outstanding conductors including Hans-Christoph Rademann and Pablo Heras-Casado. Juliane Laake’s extensive discography bears witness to these collaborations.
In her personal concert programmes and CD recordings, Juliane Laake devotes herself with passion to the viola da gamba repertoire in all its facets, particularly the lesser-known works. Numerous world premiere recordings, highly acclaimed by the press, attest to her rigorous research and her highly virtuosic, moving viola da gamba playing.
The Art d’Echo ensemble was founded in 2010 by the gambist Juliane Laake. Since then, she has been realising her own musical projects with this ensemble. The musicians selected for each project—all of whom are consummate and renowned specialists in their field—enrich the gambist’s work with their great musical, artistic inspiration and profound knowledge. At the heart of their work lies the rich and varied repertoire for the viola da gamba, which is brought to life through ambitious programme selections. Numerous CD recordings, radio broadcasts and concert and festival performances, as well as many award nominations, bear witness to the ensemble’s successful work.
The CDs by Juliane Laake – Ensemble Art d’Echo have been nominated on several occasions for the German Record Critics’ Award, the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) and the OPUS Klassik.