L’ANGELO E LA STELLA. Capolavori sacri del Barocco tedesco
From 31 October to 31 October Italy / Modena
The concert is an artistic and spiritual encounter between two giants of the Baroque: Giacomo Carissimi, master of the Roman oratorio, and his French pupil Marc-Antoine Charpentier with their masterpieces, the Historia di Jephte and Le Reniement de Saint Pierre, which share an intense dramaticism and a final chorus of heart-wrenching beauty. Rome, around the middle of the seventeenth century, was a hub of musical innovation, with Giacomo Carissimi as one of its greatest protagonists. Marc-Antoine Charpentier studied with him, remaining deeply influenced by his style. Alongside the two oratorios, the concert also features the sinfonia by Lelio Colista, another protagonist of mid-century Rome and a precursor of Corelli, and Charpentier's Stabat Mater, a surprising work that renounces all dramatic expressiveness to offer an almost mantric contemplation of sorrow.
