23
25.06.2025
Wed 19 h
Church of Peace Sanssouci
Church concert

Monteverdi on the road

Via Flanders to new horizons

Program

Claudio Monteverdi: Works fromfour decades in dialogue with the Franco-Flemish masters Giachesde Wert, Nicolas Gombert, Adrian Willaert & Cipriano de Rore

Artists

B'ROCK VOCAL CONSORT
Agnes Kovacs, Margaret Hunter soprano
Bart Uvyn, Marine Fribourg alto
Fabian Kelly, Thomas Köll tenor
Hans Wijers, Ulfried Staber bass

B'ROCK ORCHESTRA
David Wish, Ortwin Lowyck violin
Patrick Sepec viola da gamba
Elise Christiaens violone
Toshinori Ozaki theorbe

Andreas Küppers harpsichord, organ & conductor

The year 1599 held ready an exciting experience for the 22-year-old Claudio Monteverdi: in the entourage of his employer, the Duke of Mantua, he was allowed to travel to Flanders, the motherland of the masters of polyphonic vocal art, who had long been active at the courts of Italy. On the way, he immediately absorbed the latest vocal composition style - and remained curious and open to inspiring impulses for the rest of his life. B'Rock followed Monteverdi's unique development path from his beginnings in Mantua the peak of his fame as cathedral music director of San Marco in Venice, from the traditional polyphony of the old masters to the liberated expressive art of a new music that pointed far into the future.

With kind support from
[Translate to english:] Logo Flanders

the representation of Flanders

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