Italian Sounds in London Festival 2024 - Is Puccini... Baroque?

Italian Sounds in London is a project started in 2021 with the aim of exploring the cultural and musical connections between Italy and the British Isles.
The well-beaten paths between both countries are a source of inspiration, with stories of musicians travelling around Europe, exchanging material, and influencing each other in ways which has left both countries with lasting flavour of each other.

Is PUCCINI… Baroque?

DAVIDE BASSO – tenor
MARIANA RODRIGUEZ – soprano

ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
violin – Rebecca Harris || piano – Panaretos Kyriatzidis || accordion – Nicola Barbagli || theorbo – Johan Löfving

Programme
A Melancholic waltz, to start: ‘Dominò’
-G. Puccini: “Che gelida manina” from ‘La Boheme’
-Barbara Strozzi: L’Eraclito Amoroso
-G. Puccini: “Ch’ella mi creda” from ‘La fanciulla del West’
-G. Puccini: “E lucevan le stelle” from ‘Tosca’
-C. Monteverdi: ‘Voglio di vita uscir’ Madrigale a voce sola

-interval-

A French Walt, to continue: ‘Gracious’
-J. Dowland: Come again
-G. Puccini: “Recondita Armonia” from ‘Tosca’
-H. Purcell: Music for a while
-G. Puccini: “Nessun dorma” from ‘Turandot’
-G. Puccini: “E l’uccellino” – a lullaby
-C. Monteverdi: Zefiro torna