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Since 2024, Villa Medici has been honoring its Baroque music program, which this year will run from January to December 2025, following the rhythm of the seasons. This “Spring” concert is the second in this cycle.
The appointment with the Baroque Seasons at Villa Medici presents a monographic concert dedicated to some of the most engaging works by Claudio Monteverdi.
In various formations, from solo voice to six-part polyphony, the Musical Chapel of Villa Medici, conducted by Riccardo Martinini, will perform in the first part of the concert the texts of Renaissance and Baroque poets set to music by Monteverdi, dedicated to the arrival of Spring, the depiction of Nature, the joy and contrasts of new love, and the emerging characters from the Operas L’Incoronazione di Poppea and Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria.
The five-voice Madrigals are taken from the Fourth Book, published in Venice by the publisher Ricciardo Amadino in 1603 and considered among the most fascinating. In these works, Monteverdi continues his expressive innovation and search for innovative techniques in polyphony that had never been attempted before, as well as the gradual use of basso continuo, which would become a mainstay in his later works.
In the second part, the Musical Chapel will tackle the sublime spirituality of the Magnificat, published in 1610 alongside the Vespro della Beata Vergine, composed over Gregorian chant themes, in the version for six voices and basso continuo.
These concerts, conceived by Villa Medici and Riccardo Martinini, are also an opportunity to bring together excellent musicians in a Chapelle Musicale linked to the activities of Villa Medici.
Villa Medici Choral Ensemble
Giovanna Gallelli, Flavia Manzo, Iuliia Petrochenko, soprano 1
Aurelia Colosimo, Elena Perucchini, Ilaria De Boroli, Eva Möritz, soprano 2
Emma Alessi Innocenti, Martina Giannattasio, Marta Pacifici, contraltos
Marco Ciardo, Marco Fulvi, Gennaro Panarello, tenors
Marco Guarini, Paolo Leonardi, baritones
Paolo Barbato, Valdrin Gashi, Michele Micocci, basses
Elisa Ciavola and Giulia Capecchi – violins
Serena Seghettini – viola da gamba
Fabio Marconetti – harpsichord
With the participation of FURIO ZANASI
RICCARDO MARTININI, conductor
Concert program
Claudio Monteverdi
Zefiro Torna e di soavi accenti – for two voices and basso continuo
Quell’Augellin che canta – from the Fourth Book of Madrigals, for 5 voices
Chiome d’Oro – for two voices, violins, and basso continuo
Dormo ancora – from the opera Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria
Addio Roma – from the opera L’Incoronazione di Poppea
Pur ti miro – from the opera L’Incoronazione di Poppea
Romanesca a 2 – for two voices and basso continuo
Amor che deggio far – from the Seventh Book of Madrigals for voices and instruments
Io mi son giovinetta – from the Fourth Book of Madrigals, for 5 voices
Luci serene e chiare – from the Fourth Book of Madrigals, for 5 voices
Magnificat – from the Vespro della Beata Vergine – for six voices and basso continuo
Baroque seasons at Villa Medici
In 2024-2025, Villa Medici will host a program of Baroque music:
Practical information
Tuesday, March 25
8 p.m.
Grand Salon of Villa Medici
15/ 20€
Tickets for the show will be paid for on site on the day of the event, from 7:00 pm until the start of the show, subject to reservation at the following contacts:
Telephone: +39.06.96525937
Mobile / WhatsApp: +39.339.8041777
Mail: [email protected]
The project partner is the prestigious Roman association I Concerti nel Parco.
