Les Escapades is a German ensemble for early music established in 2000 in Karlsruhe, Germany. The four viola da gamba players, Sabine Kreutzberger, Franziska Finckh, Adina Scheyhing and Barbara Pfeifer, studied in The Hague, Basel and Trossingen. They play in the instrumentation as pure Gambenconsort or in cooperation with other artists or choirs. The name of the ensemble promises unexpected access to the musical world of Renaissance and Baroque music.
Les Escapades give concerts with a wide range of repertoire. This includes the classical English consort of instruments of the 16th and 17th centuries. works and arrangements of Spanish music by the Siglo de Oro or numerous German sacred works, including participation in performances of Dietrich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu nostri. A special feature presented in the production Les Escapades du Roi: Based on the fictional adventures of a young woman at the court of the "Sun King" Louis XIV, the courtly music of the Palace of Versailles. The ensemble also took part in productions of the SWR.
