L'Arpeggiata & Malena Ernman
Not a catalogue of artworks, but one of animals. Or better: a catalogue of musical pieces about animals!
With Terra Mater, L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar and the charismatic Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman (in daily life also the mother of Greta Thunberg) take us on a journey through the beauty of nature. In this programme, you can hear not only nightingale, cuckoo, chicken and frog, but also the whispering wind and the roaring sea.
From Biber to Vivaldi, from English folk songs to Handel: this concert is a real Kunstkammer of carefully curated repertoire that lets nature sing in all its capricious splendour. L’Arpeggiata breathes new life into age-old sounds and connects the past and the present. Playfulness, poetry and passion come together under the care of Mother Earth.
Programme
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Die Nachtigall (The Nightingale) instrumental
1644-1704 -
John Bennet
Venus Birds
fl. 1599-1614 -
Tarquinio Merula
La Gallina (The Chicken) instrumental
1594/5-1665 -
Thomas Augustine Arne
The Cuckoo
(from: As You Like It, 1741) -
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Der Frosch (The Frog) instrumental
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Traditional England / arr. Christina Pluhar
The Frog and the Mouse
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John Playford
Wallom Green instrumental
1623-1686/87 -
Traditional England / arr. Christina Pluhar
The Taylor and the Mouse
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John Playford
Mulberry Garden instrumental
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Georg Friedrich Händel
T’was When the Seas Were Roaring, HWV 228/19
1685-1759 -
Georg Caspar Schürmann
Sinfonia pour la tempête instrumental
(from: Die getreue Alceste, Hamburg 1719)1672/73-1751 -
Antonio Vivaldi
Fra le procelle
1678-1741 -
Giulio Taglietti
Aria da suonare
c1660-1718 -
Pietro Torri
Son rossignol
(from: Ismene, 1715)c1650-1737 -
Giovanni Bononcini
Brilla in cielo
1670-1747 -
Attilio Ariosti
La dove gl’occhi io gira
1666-1729 -
Francesco Gasparini
Senti quel ussignolo
1661-1727 -
Giuseppe Maria Orlandini
Muore il ciglio
1676-1760 -
Georg Friedrich Händel
Crude furie degli orridi abissi
(from: Serse, 1738)
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Malena Ernman mezzo-soprano
- Doron Sherwin cornetto
- Margherita Pupulin, Franciska Anna Hajdu violin
- Anna Nowak viola
- Diana Vinagre cello
- Josep Maria Marti Duran theorbo, baroque guitar
- Leonardo Teruggi double bass
- David Mayoral percussion
- Dani Espasa organ, harpsichord
- Christina Pluhar musical direction, theorbo
