IThe Sound of Ancient Music September 9, 16 and 24, 2023.
A journey through music from the late Middle Ages to the Baroque. The aesthetics and charm of playing on ancient instruments.
The fourth edition of Suoni in Certosa! kicks off on Saturday 9 September 2023, the event that the Dissonanzen Association is proposing in collaboration with the Campania Regional Museums Directorate and the Certosa and Museum of San Martino, on two Saturdays with extraordinary evening openings, on 9 and 16 September at 20.30 pm, and on Sunday 24 at 11.00 am.
The exhibition, conceived for the art- and history-rich spaces of the Certosa e Museo di San Martino complex, which dominates the city of Naples, silently observing its slow but constant changes for centuries, this year is dedicated to a repertoire that extends from the end of the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century on ancient instruments - viola da gamba, recorder and baroque transverse flute - contextualized in a period in which musical literature dedicated to them proliferated.
The first concert A deux violes on Saturday 9 September at 20.30:XNUMX pm is dedicated to the viola da gamba with the duo formed by Marco and Amalia Ottone, who perform a singular program on the beginnings of the French repertoire for this instrument. Already in the Renaissance, thanks to the many diplomatic relations, the viola da gamba, a substantially Italian instrument, will begin the “conquest” of France, a nation that, between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, will bring it to its maximum splendor. Louis XIV “imposed” the viola da gamba as a very fashionable instrument, hosting at his court musicians such as Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray, who composed a solo repertoire of fine workmanship.
Participation in the concerts is included in the museum entrance ticket (ordinary €7, reduced 18-25 years €3, free up to 18 years), which can be purchased both on site and online at Coopculture:
https://www.coopculture.it/it/prodotti/biglietto-certosa-e-museo-di-san-martino/
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The concert program examines some of the most significant authors who have written for viola da gamba, starting with that Monsieur de Saint-Colombe who was the teacher of Marin Marais, and remains in our recent memory linked to the novels of Pascal Quignard, including the book on which the film Tous les matins du monde, by the director Alain Corneau, was based. This figure of a musician, after centuries of oblivion, has returned to the attention of the public thanks to the numerous recordings made especially by Jordi Savall (author, moreover, of the soundtrack of the film). The sonatas for two violas by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier are placed in the tradition of Saint-Colombe and Marais with results that mix, with great elegance, depth and pleasantness of listening.
The second concert, performed by the young talents Alessandro De Carolis and Lorenza Maio and the established musician Tommaso Rossi, is entitled A tre voci and focuses on the oldest repertoire of 1487th-16th century polyphony. The program bears witness to the experimentation of the use of wind instruments - and in particular recorders - in the performance of scores initially conceived for the human voice. The Italian polyphonic repertoire between the late Middle Ages and the late Renaissance unfolds in a path that ranges from the anonymous pieces of the XNUMX Bolognese manuscript QXNUMX, to the music of the Neapolitan Andrea Falconieri, passing through authors such as Johannes Ciconia, Johannes Tinctoris, Alessandro Agricola, Vincenzo Ruffo, Pomponi Nenna, Giovanni de Antiquis.
The third concert, entitled Follie solitarie, sees Laura Pontecorvo, one of the greatest experts of the Baroque transverse flute, confront herself with different literatures and instruments: from the Assisi transverse flute, a seventeenth-century instrument kept at the Franciscan Convent, to the flute built in the France of Louis XIV by Jean-Jacques Hotteterre, to the flutes built in Germany in the early eighteenth century (Oberlender and Buffardin), combined with contemporary Franco-German repertoire.
Program
Saturday 9 September 2023 – 20.30pm
A deux violas – The viola da gamba in France
Marco Ottone and Amalia Ottone, violas da gamba
Music by Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Marin Marais, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Antoine Forqueray.
Saturday 16 September 2023 – 20.30pm
Three-voice – Vocal-instrumental polyphonies between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Tommaso Rossi, Alessandro De Carolis and Lorenza Maio, recorders
Anonymous music from the manuscript MS Q. 16, Johannes Ciconia, Johannes Tinctoris, Alessandro Agricola, Vincenzo Ruffo, Pomponio Nenna, Giovanni de Antiquis, Andrea Falconieri.
Sunday 24th September – 11.00am
Solitary Follies – A Solo Flute Journey Between the 17th and 18th Centuries
Laura Pontecorvo, transverse flute
With the participation of Tommaso Rossi, transverse flute
Music by Jacob Van Eyck, Marin Marais, Jean Daniel Braun, Pierre Philidor, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach.
Article published on 7 September 2023 - 16:10
