Monteverdi - Piazzola

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Image courtesy of Festival Perelada.

From Monteverdi to Piazzola presents an encounter across time between Baroque composer Claudio Monteverdi and Argentine creator Astor Piazzola. A spectacle performed by Capella Mediterrània directed by Leonardo García Alarcón, shows how these two musical geniuses approached such fundamental themes as night, love, abandonment, war and death.

From the Venice of the seventeenth-century to twentieth-century Buenos Aires, the magic of the accordion will guide the audience on a voyage during which they will hear instruments ranging from a baroque violin or a lute to an electric guitar or a horn, demonstrating that human fears and passions alike transcend specific times and that music has been and will be a universal language. The show springs from a totally baroque idea: to give life to emotion and expression beyond the specifics of the instruments of any particular time. A permanent dialogue between ancient and modern instruments, between past and present. With powerful staging that leads us along a progression through life and death, fully integrating the two musical aesthetics and scores transcribed for the occasion, particularly for the accordion, the thread running throughout the spectacle From Monteverdi to Piazzola, a unique occasion to enjoy art at its purest.

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