L’Arpeggiata / Christina Pluhar & Malena Ernman
Terra Mater
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Livestream of the concert in TivoliVredenburg / Grote Zaal, Utrecht on 1 September 2025 at 20:00 hours CEST.
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About this concert
Not a catalogue of artworks, but one of animals. Or better: a catalogue of musical pieces about animals!
With Terra Mater, L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar and the charismatic Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman (in daily life also the mother of Greta Thunberg) take us on a journey through the beauty of nature. In this programme, you can hear not only nightingale, cuckoo, chicken and frog, but also the whispering wind and the roaring sea.
From Biber to Vivaldi, from English folk songs to Handel: this concert is a real Kunstkammer of carefully curated repertoire that lets nature sing in all its capricious splendour. L’Arpeggiata breathes new life into age-old sounds and connects the past and the present. Playfulness, poetry and passion come together under the care of Mother Earth.
Programme
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Nachtigal (The Nightingale)
1644-1704 -
John Bennet
Venus’ Birds
fl. 1599-1614 -
Tarquinio Merula
La Gallina (The Chicken)
1594/5-1665 -
Thomas Augustine Arne
When Daisies pied (The Cuckow)
1710-1778 -
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
CuCu (The Cuckoo)
Der Fresch (The Frog) -
Traditional / arr. Christina Pluhar
The Frog and the Mouse
England 16th century -
John Playford / arr. Christina Pluhar
Wallom Green
1623-1686/87 -
Traditional / arr. Christina Pluhar
The Taylor and the Mouse
England 16th century -
John Playford
Mulberry Garden
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Georg Caspar Schürmann
Sinfonia pour la tempête
1672/73-1751 -
Georg Friedrich Händel
‘Twas When the Seas Were Roaring, HWV 228/19
1685-1759 -
Pietro Torri
Son rossignol
c1650-1737 -
Claudio Monteverdi
O come sei gentile
1567-1643 -
Giovanni Bononcini
Brilla in cielo
1670-1747 -
John Playford / arr. Christina Pluhar
Newcastle
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Francesco Gasparini
Senti quell’ussignolo
1661-1727 -
Maurizio Cazzati / arr. Christina Pluhar
Ciaccona
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Giuseppe Orlandini
Muore il cigno
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Giulio Taglietti
Il canto del cigno
c1660-1718 -
Georg Friedrich Händel
Crude furie degli orridi abissi
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Malena Ernman mezzo-soprano
- Doron Sherwin cornetto
- Margherita Pupulin, Franciska Anna Hajdu violin
- Ania Nowak viola
- Diana Vinagre cello
- Josep Maria Marti Duran theorbo, baroque guitar
- Leonardo Teruggi double bass
- David Mayoral percussion
- Dani Espasa organ, harpsichord
- Christina Pluhar musical direction, theorbo
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.
Malena Ernman, born in Uppsala, Sweden, is widely regarded as one of the greatest singers in the world. She started her career as a jazz singer but gained international fame as a mezzo-soprano, performing roles in operas like Agrippina and Don Giovanni. With a vocal range of nearly 4 octaves, she is known for her versatility. In addition to opera, she sings contemporary music, often composed specifically for her.