Fiumi barocchi

TRAME / FIUMI BAROCCHI

In between “cantabile” and “sonabile” style. A program that guides us through 17th and 18th century Europe, rediscovering the vitality and magic of ancient music, in an extraordinarily evocative place, Sala dei Fiumi of Palazzo Ducale.
This year a Trama is being woven into another Trama and Fiumi Barocchi will develop a musical journey full of contrasts, in which the same “alphabet” of sounds and harmonies manifests itself in a pluralism of national styles. However, this variety will not only be stylistic, in fact, the comparison will extend to the different forms of ensemble involved, to the voice and instruments as co-protagonists of a profound interweaving among the different parts and generations of the musicians performing. Giving space therefore to those young musicians who also in Italy carry on their own philological and interpretative research projects on period instruments, following what Zefiro Ensemble did in the 1980s.
We will be immersed in timeless music, the one by Teleman, Biber, Bach, Strozzi, Couperin, Marais, Montanari, Mancini, Platti, Scarlatti…an unusual meeting between ancient and contemporary music! Between Fiumi Barocchi and Wunderkammer! A moment that will also bring contemporary composers to Mantua, just as happened for Palestrina, Monteverdi and Vivaldi, just to mention the best known, who found themselves at Isabella’s court.
Here, we thank all the musicians who participate in the festival: with their art, their passion and their generosity they make this journey through time and in the spirit of early music possible.
Alberto Grazzi, Ensemble Zefiro