SOSPIR ENSEMBLE

Programme

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Toccata arpeggiata / Carlo Gesualdo: Deh, come invan sospiro / Giulio Caccini: Amor, io parto / Barbara Strozzi: L'amante segreto / Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Passacaglia / Claudio Monteverdi: Sì dolce è'l tormento / Jacques Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno / Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Kapsberger / Sonino, scherzino / Biagio Marini: Donna che loda il canto di bellissimo giovanetto / Claudio Monteverdi: Quel sguardo sdegnosetto / T’amo mia vita / Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Ite sospiri miei / Adriano Banchieri: Baci, sospir e voci / Claudio Monteverdi: Sì, ch’io vorrei morire

About this event

The Baroque is one of the longest, most productive, most revolutionary and most influential periods in the history of music. It had its beginnings in 1600 with the birth of opera and lasted until the middle of the 18th century. It was a period in which emotion took precedence over reason, and the rhythm of the text dictated the melody when setting poetry to music. The Sospir Ensemble will take us on a fascinating journey around the vocal music of the early Baroque, when two manners of composing shared the stage – the traditional polyphonic genre of the madrigal and the new style of writing for accompanied solo voice.