L’Arpeggiata / Christina Pluhar & Marco Beasley
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Recorded live at TivoliVredenburg / Grote Zaal, Utrecht, 31 August 2023
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About this concert
Under the motto 'Homo fugit velut umbra', Christina Pluhar and Marco Beasley turned the early music world upside down decades ago. Not only young early music lions were inspired by the duo; audiences also fell en masse for their incantatory music. A few years later, they created a final album together, around Emilio de Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo.
Now, nineteen years after their previous time in Utrecht, the star combo is making the ultimate comeback with their own opera that Pluhar distilled from Baroque music by Monteverdi, Rossi, Ziani and Caccini. In an all-star lineup and with an original libretto revolving around Orpheus & Eurydice and Tancredi & Clorinda - two legendary love couples who meant each other's greatest happiness and downfall - L'Arpeggiata defies the laws of time and space.
Programme
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Scene I (Prologue): La Morte (Danse macabre)
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Emilio de Cavalieri
Sinfonia instrumental
ca. 1550-1602 -
Anoniem
Homo fugit velut umbra (Passacaglia della vita - Danse macabre)
17th century -
Tarquinio Merula
Il tempo di una vita e fragile (La Morte)
1594/5-1665 -
Scene II: Le nozze di Orfeo ed Euridice
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Giulio Romolo Caccini
Al canto, al ballo instrumental
1551-1618 -
Claudio Monteverdi
Rosa del Ciel - Io non dirò (Orfeo, Euridice)
1567-1643 -
Luigi Rossi / arr. Christina Pluhar
Mio ben (Euridice)
1597/98-1653 -
Claudio Monteverdi
Vi riccordi boschi ombrosi (Orfeo)
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Lorenzo Allegri
Canario instrumental
1567-1648 -
Scene III: La morte di Euridice
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Claudio Monteverdi
Ahi, caso acerbo - In un fiorito prato (Messagiera, Orfeo, Ninfa, Pastori)
Tu sei morta (Orfeo)
Ma io in questa lingua (Messagiera) -
Scene IV: Orfeo negli inferni
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Claudio Monteverdi
Possente Spirto (Orfeo)
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Antonio Sartorio
Orfeo, tu dormi? (Euridice)
1630-1680 -
Claudio Monteverdi
Qual honor (Orfeo, Euridice, Spiriti)
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Luigi Rossi
Les pleurs d’Orphée ayant perdu sa femme instrumental
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Scene V (Interlude): La Morte (Danse macabre)
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Pietro Antonio Ziani / arr. Christina Pluhar
Dormite, o pupille (La Morte)
1616-1648 / *1965 -
Scene VI: Il combattimento di Tancredi e di Clorinda
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Claudio Monteverdi
Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Musicians
- Cyril Auvity Orfeo
- Céline Scheen Euridice, Clorinda
- Benedetta Mazzucata Messagiera
- Renato Dolcini Pastore, Spirito, Tancredi
- Marco Beasley Testo, La Morte, Pastore, Spirito
- L’Arpeggiata
- Doron David Sherwin cornetto
- Kinga Ujszászi, Catherine Aglibut violin
- Ania Nowak viola
- Diana Vinagre cello
- Josep Maria Marti Duran theorbo, baroque guitar
- Maximilian Ehrhardt harp
- Margit Übellacker psaltery
- Tobias Steinberger percussion
- Marie van Rhijn, Dani Espasa organ, harpsichord
- Christina Pluhar dramaturgy and musical direction
About the performers
For each project with L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar brings together a group of exceptional, often young, musicians. Since its foundation in 2000, the ensemble’s concerts and recordings have been warmly received by press and public alike. L’Arpeggiata often brings less familiar repertoire back into the limelight, focusing on French, Italian and Neapolitan music from the 17th century, in which improvisation plays a major role. L’Arpeggiata appears at all the major festivals in Europe and is a very welcome guest in Utrecht.
Christina Pluhar studied classical guitar, lute and harp in Basel, The Hague and Milan, where she studied with Paul O’Dette, Andrew Lawrence King and Jesper Christensen. She began her career in the basso continuo group of ensembles such as La Fenice, Hespèrion XXI, Les Musiciens du Louvre and Cantus Cölln. She directs her own ensemble L’Arpeggiata, which she founded in 2000, and which has produced many memorable concerts and recordings ever since.