"Sereno"

Under the title Sereno, which means "serene", "calm" or "serene", works by four composers will be performed. Despite being written in different eras, these pieces share a particular clarity of tonality, a balance between the two voices and a cheerful, transparent tonal language. Perhaps this bright and luminous character is also due to the key of A major, which the first three works share?

The first work is Ricercare No. 3 by Giovanni Benedetto Platti, whose baroque lines and contrapuntal structure evoke a sense of serenity.

In the duos by Niccolò Paganini and Alessandro Rolla, two voices meet in a lively musical dialog. Despite virtuoso passages, the character of these works remains light, bright and balanced. Pure virtuosity, which one would expect from Paganini in particular, is never in the foreground.

The repetitive structures and flowing rhythmic movements of Philip Glass's duos create a meditative calm and a floating sound effect. Calm and serene, the melody meanders its way like a small river that runs dry at the end.


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