A sentimental journey through 17th-century Rome, Ensemble Mare Nostrum performs music by Alessandro Stradella. The most beautiful arias for soprano from the great composer’s Oratorios and Operas, which, with triosonatas for two violins and basso continuo, trace a path through genres and sonorities particular to the last decades of the Roman seventeenth century.
The music in this program is pervaded by longing and dreaming. The Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture inspired by William Shakespeare’s play is performed in its own right because Mendellsohn composed it for orchestra and chorus and conducted it at the age of 17. As many years passed before he was commissioned by the King of…
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In the seventeenth century Rome saw a proliferation of multifaceted and surprising artistic productions, in which the great polyphonic school developed close to private academies and operas performed in the public theater of Tor di Nona. An exciting journey from the Middle Ages through Renaissance and Baroque melodies to the folk songs of today. In…
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Great composers design their works just as architects do. Then, using sounds as building materials, they move on to making them.The space they occupy is an inner space, but like the outer space, in order to communicate meaning, interest and ultimately well-being, the space must become an alternation, or rather a sequence, of different elements.…
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The Trio in E-flat major for piano, clarinet and viola KV. 498, was included by Mozart in his personal catalog on August 5, 1786. According to an unverifiable anecdote, the piece was supposedly composed by Mozart during a game of skittles. This is precisely where its nickname of the Skittle Trio(Kegelstatt-Trio) comes from. Along with…
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Download the playbill In the common perception of the family of musical instruments, the viola is feminine and the violin, although higher pitched, masculine. In this concert, voice and instrument alternate as sisters or lifelong friends, in pieces by great composers who, almost all of them, continuously traversed musical Europe and beyond to Russia, in…
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Mozart composed Piano Concerto No. 12 in 1782 for a Vienna audience, a year after he left Salzburg following his break with Archbishop Hyeronimus Colloredo. The change also had an effect on his writing, which was animated by a renewed stylistic freedom from the client’s wishes, allowing Mozart to show off his technical versatility and…
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The pieces on the program are based on the repertoire of “city” gypsy violinists – who inspired, in the late 19th century, also Franz Liszt and from the traditional folk music of remote villages, often isolated for centuries.Joy, sorrow, rebellion, and a desire for freedom are the feelings that are released through wonderful melodies and…
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It is hard to say when this happened, but at some point the sea, this endless perpetual motion, this unfathomable depth, became a female image. It is natural for musicians to see in the image of the sea creative freedom, the infinity of possibilities, the perpetual movement of imagination. And so, every time they tell…
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