Baroque songs without words   Concerto Scirocco

The term songs without words automatically reminds us of the Romantics and especially Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, who used the piano to tell poetic stories, describe emotional states and paint pictures. Their origins – narrative tone, language, easily understandable and lyrical melody, clear form – are to be found in the instrumental genres at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. Like the voice, the instruments were also meant to trigger emotions. In the absence of words, rhetoric was used to move and inspire the audience: Just as the worthy and perfect painter imitates everything that nature has created with its variation of colours, so one might imitate the human voice with a wind or string instrument.

The exceptionally vibrant Concerto Scirocco led by Giulia Genini, which relatively few people are familiar with here, invites their audience to experience works full of virtuosity and rhetorical marvels.

Concerto Scirocco
Conductor: Giulia Genini