Fringe: Les Arcanes Baroques

Fringe: Les Arcanes Baroques

This concert is part of the free fringe programme of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2026.

Founded in 2024, Les Arcanes Baroques brings together four musicians united by a passion for early music and historically informed performance practice. The ensemble focuses on Baroque trio sonata repertoire while also exploring string quartets from the Classical period and beyond. Having met at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, the musicians are developing a distinctive artistic profile and an international career. In 2025, they were selected for the International Handel Competition in Göttingen and won the Audience Prize at the International B. Marini Competition. They also performed at the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

Programme

• Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

  String Quartet Op. 1 No. 2 in E-flat major
  Allegro Maestoso – Rondeau

  1744-1799
• Ignatius Sancho

  Minuet No. 13 in E-flat major
  (from: Minuets, etc. Book 2, 1779)

  1729-1780
• Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

  Quatuor pour le Clavessin avec l'accompagnement de Violin, Viola et Basse
  Allegro – Rondo

• Ignatius Sancho

  Minuet No. 11 in G minor
  (from: Minuets, etc.)

• Franz Joseph Haydn

  Trio Op. 3 No. 4 in B-flat major
  Allegro moderato – Menuetto – Presto

  1732-1809
• Ignatius Sancho

  Air in D major
  Hornpipe in B-flat major
  Minuet No. 9 in D major
  (from: Minuets, etc.)

• Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

  String Quartet No. 2 in G minor
  Adagio – Aria andantino
  (from: Quartettos Concertans, 1778)
  
  Programme subject to change

Musicians

• Benjamin Lenzmeier violin, viola
• Kira Dove violin, viola
• Andreu Gènova i Roldan cello
• Elias Tulchynsky harpsichord, violin