FESTIM NA BABILÓNIA | MÚSICA E VINHO

Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música Laurence Cummings musical direction Marina Pacheco soprano Tiago Matos baritone   Henry Purcell Cena do poeta bêbado de The Fairy Queen Georg Philipp Telemann Concerto “Les Rainettes” Johann Sebastian Bach Excertos da Cantata do Café, BWV 211 Marin Marais Suite de Ariane e Baco - Georg Friedrich Händel Excertos de Belshazzar   The Orquestra Barroca surrenders itself to wine... Or rather, it surrenders itself to music with the most varied references to this drink with thousands of years of history. Whether it be a scene by Purcell starring a drunken poet, or a suite by Marais centred on the loves of Bacchus, the god of wine. The pleasures of another drink, coffee, are evoked with excerpts from a comic cantata by Bach. The second half of the concert is devoted to Händel's oratorio Belshazzar, based on the biblical account of the fall of Babylon and the liberation of the Jews. Among the excerpts performed is a feast washed down with great quantities of wine, hosted by Belshazzar, the king of Babylon.