HPO Singer & ​Ensemble OrQuesta Baroque by Caletti-Bruni, С (2023/2023), Дирижёр Márcio da Silva, Christ Church St Leonards on Sea, St Leonards-on-Sea, Великобритания

Join us for this exciting performance of early music, brought to life with physical theatre elements by our children's choir, HPO Songbirds, and HPO Singers, accompanied by the specialist early musicians of Ensemble OrQuesta Baroque. Written in the mid-17th century, Cavalli's 'Musiche Sacre' is full of variety, imagination, and experimentation. Cavalli's writing is expressive, engaging, and full of contrasts, with simple hymn-like sections, expressive solo items and intimate moments, contrasted with spectacular motets displaying the influence of opera on his writing, exciting instrumental interludes, dance-like melodies, rhythmic vitality, and frequent metric changes. Cavalli is the master of weaving a web of musico-dramatic characterisations. All in all, 'Music from a time of plague' aptly represents the many dimensions of a community experiencing trauma - something that perhaps still resonates strongly with us today.