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.