on the occasion of Festa della Musica 2025

free entry
Saturday 21 June, Modena
Garden of the State Archives, 9 p.m.
…IN RIME SPARSE, IL SUONO…
Letture e madrigali su testi di Petrarca, Tasso e Rinuccini
messi in musica da Monteverdi, Marenzio, de Wert
Fonte Armonica Ensemble
in collaboration with Archivio di Stato di Modena

The program celebrates the relationship between poetic text and music in the 16th-century Madrigal. Composers such as Willaert, Arcadelt, de Rore, Marenzio, Gesualdo and Monteverdi sought a profound integration of music and words, using expressive and chromatic effects to enhance the meaning of the text.

The concert allows one to appreciate this fusion by presenting each madrigal alongside its poetic text, highlighting the stylistic evolution that led to an expressive magnificence in the music.

The protagonist of the event will be Fonte Armonica Ensemble, a vocal group specialising in Renaissance polyphony, whose experience in the musical sphere has been consolidated at festivals and exhibitions, also in the Modena area, such as Grandezze & Meraviglie, festivalfilosofia, Modena Organ Festival, ArmoniosaMente.

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