Concerts
Anges & Démons - Vittorio Ghielmi zu Gast bei La Cetra
Gambist Vittorio Ghielmi and the La Cetra Baroque Orchestra present the program "Anges & Démons" with works by Marais, Forqueray, Lully & Rameau.
French dialogs
Works by Marais, Forqueray, Lully & Rameau
In La Cetra's series with renowned guests in dialog with La Cetra, after Jordi Savall, Maurice Steger, Carlos Mena, Sergey Malov, Leila Schayegh and Andreas Staier, the "shaman of sound", the gambist Vittorio Ghielmi, was introduced to you for the first time. In addition to his extensive solo activities, which range from Renaissance music to jazz, the Italian is a conductor, composer, professor and director of the Institute for Early Music at the Mozarteum Salzburg.
Ghielmi's program "Anges & Démons" takes us to the baroque French court of Versailles, where both Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray, who was a good 15 years younger, worked for Louis XIV. Marais was known at the time as the "angel" because of his sweet and sensitive viol playing, while Forqueray was called the "devil" with fearful admiration for his dramatic, sometimes terrifyingly virtuoso style.
A good dozen of Marais' and Forqueray's compositions, mostly for viola da gamba and continuo, are embedded in larger-scale works by the two French baroque stars Lully and Rameau. The evening opens with an unknown movement by the violinist and composer Jean-Féry Rebel, who was also employed at the Académie royale de musique from the end of the 17th century.
The eloquent names of the pieces, typical of the time, such as "le cahos", "bruit de tonnerre", "sarabande de la désolée", "la tempête" or then, less turbulent, "la rêveuse", make you want to get to know them.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Works by Marais, Forqueray, Lully & Rameau
In La Cetra's series with renowned guests in dialog with La Cetra, after Jordi Savall, Maurice Steger, Carlos Mena, Sergey Malov, Leila Schayegh and Andreas Staier, the "shaman of sound", the gambist Vittorio Ghielmi, was introduced to you for the first time. In addition to his extensive solo activities, which range from Renaissance music to jazz, the Italian is a conductor, composer, professor and director of the Institute for Early Music at the Mozarteum Salzburg.
Ghielmi's program "Anges & Démons" takes us to the baroque French court of Versailles, where both Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray, who was a good 15 years younger, worked for Louis XIV. Marais was known at the time as the "angel" because of his sweet and sensitive viol playing, while Forqueray was called the "devil" with fearful admiration for his dramatic, sometimes terrifyingly virtuoso style.
A good dozen of Marais' and Forqueray's compositions, mostly for viola da gamba and continuo, are embedded in larger-scale works by the two French baroque stars Lully and Rameau. The evening opens with an unknown movement by the violinist and composer Jean-Féry Rebel, who was also employed at the Académie royale de musique from the end of the 17th century.
The eloquent names of the pieces, typical of the time, such as "le cahos", "bruit de tonnerre", "sarabande de la désolée", "la tempête" or then, less turbulent, "la rêveuse", make you want to get to know them.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.