MONOLOGUES (FINLAND)
Thu 9.8.2018 at 7 pm
Pyhän Laurin kirkko, Vantaa (BRQ festival)
Helsinki Chamber Choir
Nils Schweckendiek, conductor
CARLO GESUALDO: excerpts from the 6th Book of Madrigals
CLAUDIO AMBROSINI: Soliloquy
SALVATORE SCIARRINO: excerpts from 12 madrigali
Tickets: 22,50–33 € Ticketmaster
The master of madrigals Carlo Gesualdo meets two contemporary Italians, Salvatore Sciarrino and Claudio Ambrosini, in a programme for vocal sextet. Gesualdo is well-known for his emotionally rich vocal music with wild chromaticism and highly expressive, even painful harmonies. He has been an inspiration for many later composers, among them Sciarrino, whose 12 Madrigali set nature-themed haikus by the Japanese 17th-century poet Matsuo Basho.
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