Early Music America

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Sacred music
from Monteverdi untill Mozart

A varied program with compositions spanning several centuries.

The masters of the past devoted the best part of their labour to create musical gems for their religion.

The interpretation that composers through the centuries gave to these devote expressions are very contrasting. In the celebrating Laudate Dominum, Claudio Monteverdi praises the Lord, bringing in many different musical instruments, that are imitated with a great diversity in sound (tubae, cymbalum, tympanum,...), while in the Laudate Dominum of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the intimate feelings of the composer are being exposed in a deeply poetical manner.
Even though, this program is religious in its content; a complete pallet of human emotions is on display.

This program can be brought as a duo (voice and harpsichord) as well as in a trio with voice, harpsichord and lute.

 

 

This program takes the audience to a musical island of love.

We visit love there in its many facets: its sweetness, its exhaltation, its suffering, its cruelty. Works by Frescobaldi, Monteverdi, Marcello, d’India and Vivald.