Around Handel’s work “Israel in Egypt,” the Ensemble Baroque de Rennes offers a mixed repertoire, at the crossroads of Baroque East and West, at the crossroads of paths. Artists propose works related to Handel’s music and his oratorio, focusing on themes of travel and exile, exchange and welcome. Music cites and borrows, drawing from the past, and it is the mixture and encounter that allow the creation of always new pieces, in a living future.
The Ensemble Baroque de Rennes is part of La Pie qui Joue’s various projects, a company composed of professional musicians. They aim to make us hear the little voice that lies within each of us, a voice with open ears, thirsty for sharing and curiosity, a voice that loves to sing, dance, and encounter stories.
These stories may be ancient, but they still resonate with our present, transforming themselves. These musics are sometimes an opportunity for solitude, sometimes an opportunity for encounters. We can talk, sing, listen, dream, doze off, forget – together or alone, for a short time or a long time.
