You’re in the mood for dance, and when you get the chance:
You are a dancing queen!

Combining these two absolute giants of European music history seems audacious: Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) and ABBA (1972-)! However, even a second listen reveals countless similarities. The originality and catchiness of their melodies, the rhythmic buoyancy, as well as their unrestricted popularity. Under the title Dancing Queen, the Lautten Compagney builds a bridge from the present to a time when it was less the Queens and more the Kings who were to be found on the dance floor. As with the Berlin ensemble’s other cross-epochal projects, ABBA’s music is arranged and played on instruments from the Baroque period and not just juxtaposed with Rameau’s music. The music is sometimes so fused that it is almost impossible to recognise what comes from the pen of the high baroque Frenchman and what comes from the workshop of the Swedish pop quartet.

As a true dancing queen on her instrument, saxophonist Asya Fateyeva dances back and forth between the worlds. With great virtuosity, she elicits both fast runs and the finest lyrical, singing arias from her instrument. She has an endless palette of different sounds at her disposal and improvises with ease over a rock riff, be it by Rameau or ABBA. An ideal partner for the musicians of the experimental and playful lautten compagney BERLIN, with whom she released the highly acclaimed CD Time Travel with pieces by Purcell and The Beatles in 2021.