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) VIVALDI | “Autumn” from The Four Seasons REBEL | Les Elémens* Music of the Baroque Orchestra Laurence Cummings, conductor and narrator Gina DiBello, violin