Vestigium Ensemble

Eliot Xaquin Dios Martínez, harpsichord | Andrés García Fraile, viola da gamba | Ana Fernández Anguita, flute

PROGRAMME

Eliot X. Dios: Obertura del Parnaso / Ludwig Christian Hesse: Poco Adagio from the Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Keyboard Obbligato in D Major D-B, Am.B. 585 / *Reinhard Keiser: “T’amerò se m’ami”, from the opera L’Inganno Fedele / *Johann Gottlieb Janitsch: Trio Sonata in G Major IJJ 31 (movement II) / Johann Sebastian Bach: Allegro Moderato from Trio Sonata in G Major BWV 1027 / *Johann Joseph Fux: Adagio from Trio Sonata in G Major K340 / Georg Philipp Telemann: Allegro Assai from Trio Sonata in G Minor TWV 42:g7 / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Andante from Flute Sonata in G Major H 550 / Johann Sebastian Bach: Andante and Allegro from Trio Sonata in D Major BWV 1028 / *Johann Joseph Fux: Allegro from Trio Sonata in G Major K340

* Arrangements by Vestigium Ensemble

Since the times of classical Greece, the muses have been regarded as the goddesses who instigate imagination and artistic creation. They lived with Apollo in Parnassus, the mountain where artists and poets travelled in search of inspiration. Not all the visits were peaceful, as explained in the myth of Marsyas the Martyr, who was a virtuoso of the aulos, a kind of double-reeded oboe, and who would challenge Apollo to a musical contest in which the winner would rule and the loser would be subjected to the will of the other. Apollo, overwhelmed by the satyr's enthusiasm, accepted the competition and offered the muses to be the jury. This concert, which focuses on composers from the German Enlightenment, is a selection of chamber works, arrangements, opera arias and previously unpublished compositions in Sturm und Drang style, which provide the soundtrack to the challenge between Marsyias and Apollo. The narrative, purely musical, uses the instruments as characters, the harmonies as emotions, the melodies as conversations and the rhythm as a depiction of the dance of the muses in joyous moments. In this concert the sound tells the story and the imagination does the rest. Vestigium Ensemble has won the First Prize in the modality of Early Music 2023 of the Juventudes Musicales de España competition.