and it is precisely in Medici Florence that music transforms into language, an expression of
feelings and interiority: love, joy, happiness, melancholy and passion yes
they dress with the musical notes of the songs on the program selected from the works of the most
great composers active in Italy between 1500 and 1600. Given the affinities
stylistic, and in homage to the place that will host the concerts, we will also present a
suite of songs from the English reign of Elizabeth I.
Among the authors from across the Channel we will meet John Dowland, Henry Purcell and Robert
Johnson; among the Italians the very Florentine Cosimo Bottegari, lutenist of the court
Medici, Jacopo Peri, Giulio Caccini, also employed in the service of the Grand Duke
Ferdinando I de Medici, and Girolamo Frescobaldi and Claudio Monteverdi considered
among the greatest geniuses of the musical panorama of all time.
As regards the tools used, those that are used in both will be used
musical traditions played a role of primary importance: the lute, the theorbo
(instrument born in Medici Florence) and the harpsichord (instrument from
from which the luthier Bartolomeo Cristofori, right in Florence, derived the fortepiano
ancestor of the modern piano).
These will alternate both in solo pieces and in the accompaniment to the voice of
Laura.
The musicians involved, Giacomo Benedetti and Andrea Benucci, professionals who have long been active in the field of ancient music, will perform the music making use of the performance techniques typical of the
historical period covered.
Concerts in various places in Tuscany.