Since 2001, a few times each year , musicians gather around the recorder player Jeremias Schwarzer to work on Baroque masterworks for concerts and CD- projects. The members of the Ensemble Vivi Felice are not only experts in the field of Early Music but feel also at home in the classical and romantic repertoire as well as in contemporary music. The variety of musical backgrounds enables projects which connect the profound research work on Early Music with a fresh and current approach to the masterworks of the past for the audiences of today.

Netta Or, Soprano
Kai Wessel, Countertenor
Ensemble VIVI FELICE

In recent years, the Ensemble Vivi Felice has been working on the music of the great Italian Baroque Opera composer Alessandro Scarlatti. Some of his most attractive cantatas have been presented in concerts and recorded on CD in combination with virtuoso instrumental concertos. Through the highly expressive vocal art of the soloists Kai Wessel (Countertenor) and Netta Or (Soprano), one can experience the unique genius of the opera composer Alessandro Scarlatti in these „smaller“ compositions in new ways.

C.Ph.E. Bach (1714-1788): Sonata a minor for basset recorder, viola und b.c.;
G.Ph.Telemann (1681-1767): Sonata f-minor for violoncello and b.c.,
Christoph Graupner (1683-1760): Sonata C-major for recorder, viola and b.c, a.o.

Ensemble Vivi Felice
Jeremias Schwarzer, recorder
Martin Timphus, baroque viola and viola d´amore
Sebastian Hess, baroque cello
Ralf Waldner, harpsichord

Some Baroque chamber music instrumentations are quite different from combinations of musical instruments which we can usually listen to in a concert: C.Ph. E. Bach´s Sonata for basset recorder, viola and harpsichord is for example unique in music history: beside of this composition, the basset recorder is almost never used as a solo instrument! In Vivi Felice´s Baroque Rarities program, the audience can experience rare instrumental combinations and unique colours of sound.