Ensemble Baroque de Rennes: Baroque Music at the Crossroads of Worlds

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 intersection of paths. Around the themes of travel and exile, exchange and welcome, the artists propose works related to Handel’s music and his oratorio. For music quotes and borrows, it draws its origins from the past, and it is the blend and encounter that allow the creation of always new pieces, in a living future.

The Ensemble Baroque de Rennes is part of the various projects of La Pie qui Joue, a company composed of professional musicians. To make heard that small voice that slumbers in each one of us. That small voice that has open ears, thirsty for sharing and curiosity, that small voice that loves to sing, dance, and meet stories.

These stories may be ancient, but they still resonate with our present, they transform. These musics are sometimes an occasion for solitude, sometimes an opportunity for encounters. We can talk, we can sing, we can listen, dream, doze off, forget… Together or alone, for a short time or for a long time.