Café Barock: Nuovi Venti

Instrumental and vocal music from the 16th–17th centuries and something in between

The beginning of the 17th century was a time of upheaval in the history of Western music. The sprawling and dramatic ideal of beauty of the Baroque revolutionized the compositional rules of the sweet and discordant chords of the Renaissance, and virtuosic gestures that drastically departed from the song-based tradition began to appear in instrumental music. However, the vocal music of the Renaissance and the polyphonic musical thinking influenced instrumental music even in the middle of the 17th century.

In the Nuovi Venti concert, Sofia Fernholm and Aura Visala explore this aesthetic intermediate period and its vocal and instrumental music. The program combines renaissance polyphonic vocal works and temperamental instrumental numbers, and in accordance with the customs of the time, the concert performers have also made their own arrangements of well-known renaissance melodies.

Fontana – de Rore – Frescobaldi – Arcadelt – Castello – Storace

Duo 2+

Sofia Fernholm, recorders, harpsichord

Aura Visala, harpsichord, organ and vocals
 

Universum

25.2.2024

15.00-16.30

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