‘Magdalena Kožená & La Cetra’
Past event
Cancelled
Postponed
14 Dec.'22
- 20:00
Blind Love
Magdalena Kožená can sing anything. The mezzo-soprano proves it yet again by bringing Monteverdi's The Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda to life. This work, premiered during the 1624 Venice Carnival, is included in the pre-Baroque composer's collection of Madrigals of War and Love. With stage directions for the narrator - here played by the excellent mezzo-soprano - it marks a step forward in the theatricalisation of the madrigal and is therefore avant-garde, as are the other richly inventive vocal works that join it in this programme, such as the formidable Sequenza III by Luciano Berio, and Arianna has a Problem, based on Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna, which the Czech composer Marko Ivanović dedicated to his compatriot in 2016.
Passacaglio (Per ogni sorte di strumento musicale op. 22)
Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Ottavo libro, Madrigali guerrieri e amorosi)
Aria V sopra la Bergamasca (Sonate, arie e correnti op. 3)
Disprezzata regina (L'incoronazione di Poppea)
Folle è ben si crede (Curtio precipitato et altri capricii composti in diversi modi vaghi e leggiadri a voce sola, op. 13/6)
Ballo detto Pollicio (Canzoni overo sonate concertate, op. 12)
Si dolce è'il tormento (Quarto scherzo delle ariose vaghezze)
Arianna has a problem
Sonata XV (Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Libro II)
Sequenza III for voice
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Henry Le Boeuf Hall
Rue Ravenstein 23 1000 BRUSSELS