Music of the Baroque: The Elements

Laurence Cummings, music director of the Academy of Ancient Music, explores life’s basic building blocks—earth, air, fire, and water. The watery Neptune splashes through Rameau’s Suite from Naïs and Ebb und Fluth, Telemann’s own “Water Music.” Vivaldi leads the earthly charge in the “Autumn” Concerto from The Four Seasons. All the elements dance and twirl in Rebel’s shockingly imaginative Les Elémens.

RAMEAU             Suite from Naïs
TELEMANN         Ebb und Fluth (Ebb and Flow), TWV 55:C3
VIVALDI                “Autumn” from The Four Seasons, RV 293
REBEL                    Les Elémens*

Music of the Baroque Orchestra
Laurence Cummings, conductor and narrator*
Gina DiBello, violin