Sollazzo Ensemble

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Photo courtesy of L'Auditori

In this concert, Sollazzo Ensemble performs a series of moralising songs from the late Middle Ages.

“Parle qui veut” (Speak, whoever wants to) which is the title of an anonymous medieval song, is the name of their multi-awarded record (Linn Records, 2017) and also the name of a programme that offers us texts of surprising force.

Six hundred years ago, poets and musicians were already reflecting and singing about human nature and, in a special way, about critical thinking and the importance of the arts. Now, today’s musicians give voice to medieval compositions by French and Italian composers such as Andrea da Firenze, Johannes Ciconia, Francesco Landini, Niccolò da Perugia, Paolo da Firenze and Solage. Surprisingly modern, courtly love is in these songs laden with phrases with double meanings.

Protest, irony and bittersweet humour are sprinkled throughout these 14th-century songs that will make you laugh and reflect in equal parts.

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