À voce sola, con sinfonie
Accademia Strumentale Italiana

Please note: this event replaces Darkness and Grace | Catrani, Astronio

Accademia Strumentale Italiana

Cecilia Rizzetto, soprano
Davide Monti, violin
Alberto Rasi, viola da gamba
Maria Christina Cleary, double harp

Love, in Words and Music from Seventeenth-Century Italy

Antonio Bertali (1605–1669)
Sonata a due

Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Ed è pur dunque vero (from Scherzi musicali)

Michelangelo Rossi (1602–1656)
Toccata Seconda for harp

Giulio Caccini (1551–1618)
Dolcissimo Sospiro (from Le nuove musiche)

Alessandro Stradella (1643–1682)
Sinfonia à due

Claudio Monteverdi
Zefiro torna (from Scherzi musicali)

30' | Admission €15

Love is the guiding thread of this journey through seventeenth-century Italy, an era in which music became a theatre of emotions, words, and human passions. Through madrigals, arias, and instrumental works, the programme interweaves Monteverdi’s refined musical language with that of composers such as Caccini, Bertali, Rossi, and Stradella — leading figures of an extraordinary artistic season poised between poetic invention and musical virtuosity.

The vocal works explore the many shades of love: desire, longing, joy, and melancholy. Alongside them, the instrumental compositions expand and reflect the same expressive universe through the elegant dialogue between violin, viola da gamba, and double harp.

Accademia Strumentale Italiana brings this repertoire to life through historical instruments and interpretative sensitivity, giving renewed voice to the evocative power of Italian Baroque music.