A trip back to 1624 together with Monteverdi

With a trip into the past we go back to the evening that changed the music of the western world. We are in 1624 in an unspecified Palazzo Mocenigo in Venezia during Carnival, when all the nobility are on show. On stage is the Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda presented by Monteverdi. This was a revolution – the first time the strings were used to evoke the noises of a battle. Since then in most operas and other compositions, like Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the instruments in use at the time reproduce the noises of nature and daily life. 

La fonte musica with Michele Pasotti on the tiorba and conducting have had this delightful idea to recreate the program which includes not only the Battle, but some Madrigali senza gesto as well.

Double appointment in Verbania on 20 August: the matinée at Museo del Paesaggio followed by the evening concert at the Church of San Leonardo.