L’eco di Monteverdi

TRAME / L’ECO DI MONTEVERDI

If you tend your ear, it seems that you can still hear in the white aisles of the Basilica of Santa Barbara the music that Claudio Monteverdi composed, directed and played there during his long stay at the Gonzaga court. In honor of this great composer who marked the musical history of Mantua, Trame Sonore offers some of the greatest masterpieces of sacred music in a symbolic place, tracing the thread of the history of music and the city of Mantua, up to the opera of Josquin Desprez and even further back. The main protagonist of this review is the king of instruments: the organ. Some great Italian organists will try their hand at the 1565 Antegnati, the magnificent instrument present in the Basilica, in solo recitals, in an ensemble of instruments and voices, or with the choir. It will be a journey into musical Europe from the 16th to the early 18th century, recalling the music of the time, comparing different views on sacred music from Palestrina to Arvo Pärt, while specialists of this repertoire will offer concerts with pieces by Frescobaldi, Kuhnau, Sweelinck , Trabaci. If you want to immerse yourself in the evocative atmosphere of a church between the Renaissance and the Baroque, in a Europe in full creative ferment, listen to the echo of Monteverdi in Santa Barbara.