Il Violino Fantastico
Sun, 13 Oct
|Cabriès
It is a tribute to the violin and its extraordinary playing techniques, discovered and invented in the 17th century. The program is conceived around the double meaning of "fantastic", in the sense of marvelous, and "phantasticus", the German-Austrian compositional style of the period.
Heure et lieu
13 Oct 2024, 18:00 – 19:30
Cabriès, 2010 Rue des Écoles, 13480 Cabriès, France
À propos de l'événement
One of its hallmarks is a dramatic play derived from the practice of improvisation, in which short (sometimes dissonant and bizarre) motifs, chromatic sections, fast runs and other such elements are combined in original ways. This is done - as in jazz - mostly on the basis of repetitive melodic and rhythmic structures, called ostinati, which give the pieces concerned a real 'drive'.
At the same time, the creative Italian Baroque violinist and her Argentinian-born sideman, playing on a variety of plucked string instruments, take us on a journey through a "museum of wonders with all the rarities, beauties and curiosities" that were imagined at the time to enthrall an audience with the stroke of the bow and the play of the strings.
The feelings expressed and evoked in Il Violino Fantastico range from the sensuality and eroticism of Solomon's Song of Songs to explosions of joy, anger and moments of nostalgia and heartbreak. All this is rendered by the violin with effects that, even today, are no less special and unheard-of than they might have been for the contemporary ear of Biagio Marini or Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber.
Programs:
Francesco Rognoni (1570?-1626) : Pulchra es, amica mea
Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589-1630) : Sonata seconda
Giovanni Gitolamo Kapsberger (1580-1651) : Toccata prima
Biagio Marini (1594-1663) : Sonata terza “La Variata”
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704) : Passacaglia
Giovanni Gitolamo Kapsberger (1580-1651) : Toccata sesta
Antonio Bertali (1605-1669) : Ciaccona
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704) : Sonata terza