Friday 22n december 2023.
Basílica of Sant Feliu
At 19 hours (7 in the evening)
VESPRES D'ARNADÍ Plays from Corelli, A. Scarlatti, Händel, Geminiani
Conductor: Dani Espasa
Entry price: 15 €
Ticket sale at www.entrapolis.com and at the Empúries Bookstore. Organization: Música Antiga de Girona
VESPRES D'ARNADÍ is
a baroque orchestra created in 2005 by Dani Espasa and Pere Saragossa
to offer versions full of emotion, freshness and spontaneity, using
historical instruments and criteria. With an intense concert activity,
the ensemble performs in important halls and festivals in Europe such
as Peralada, Barcelona, Seville, Santander, Madrid, London, Halle,
Prague and Ostrava, among others.
The program offers Christmas works from the Italian and English
Baroque, “concerti grossi” written for chamber orchestra without vocal
performances.
A. Corelli (1653-1713) born in central Italy, is one of the key
figures of the Italian Baroque who influenced the rest of the European
Baroque due to the perfection of his dialogues between various
instruments, the concerti grossi, spread throughout Europe thanks to
the new sheet music printers. His music provides a new musical language
to better express the new cultural values spread in Italy with the
triumph of the Counter-Reformation. He seeks in his works an
instrumental, rhythmic and harmonic balance of subtle contrasts that
make up a refined and majestic style at the same time, while using a
clear and melodious polyphony that followed the musical models of the
Italian church of the time. This is how he achieved instrumental works
that are easy to listen to, easy to follow and still very attractive
today, three hundred years after they were first released.
A. Scarlatti (1660-1725) was a contemporary of Corelli but of
Neapolitan culture, typical of a much more polarized society than the
Roman one and in which music had a different value. He brought new
drama to his compositions and innovated in several areas of opera music
mainly. His technique of developing melodic motifs made a fortune He
adopted Corelli's concertino-ripieno form for several instrumental works
G. F. Händel (1685-1759) belongs to the generation after Corelli
and to cultures, Germanic first and English later, quite different from
Italian. During his stay in Rome he was dazzled by Corelli's invention
of the "concerto grosso. which he adapted for the English audience.
With a great capacity for work and a very remarkable assimilation of
the various styles he knew, he was one of the first musical
entrepreneurs and with his operas he had to please a bourgeois audience
that paid to see them. His fusion of Italian melody and Germanic
harmony allowed him to compose some works that became the most popular
everywhere.
F. Geminiani (1687 1762) was a virtuoso violinist and Italian
composer who emigrated to England where he composed much of his work in
the late Baroque period. He is considered an innovator in modulation
and harmony.
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