SIENA

There are songs which, from a first listen, you immediately feel the ability to dig inside. Reading the text, then, you seem to understand almost the plot of the author’s thought. For anyone, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s ‘Sicut cervus’ is an archetype of the description of man’s divine desire or, ‘laically’, of the search for the direction of the path, thanks to a wonderful text, from Psalm 41.

The composition with which the Choir of the Cathedral of Siena ‘Guido Chigi Saracini’, directed by Maestro Lorenzo Donati, opens the concert ‘The rose of voices’, tonight at 9 pm in the Church of San’Agostino. A journey through ‘The choral music of the age of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, between the Renaissance and the Baroque’, an event in the event that closes ‘Sì Siena’, the festival of language between earth and sky which, artistic direction Davide Rondoni, animated the city ​​with a billboard of art, theater, music, dance, poetry, books, more.

‘The rose of voices’, partner of the Accademia Chigiana, is a journey through the works of the great composers of the period, from Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina to Josquin Desprez and then listening to Claudio Monteverdi.

This path continues with ‘Sitivit anima mea’, one of the highest expressions of Palestrina, to continue with ‘Super Flumina’ and ‘Lucis creator optime’.

Choral music in Bernini’s time was also Desprez’s ‘Ave Maria, Virgo serena’ which opens up to Monteverdi’s repertoire. A sequence of sensations, between past and future, alternate in the ‘* Missa in Illo tempore’, passing from the search for peace that distinguishes ‘Kyrie’, to the brilliant focus on the word ‘Gloria’ to abandon oneself to the certainty of the ‘Sanctus – Benedictus’ and exalt the divine joy with the last movement, ‘Agnus Dei’ which, in a rush of apotheosis, wins for elegance and grandeur.

Ant. Leo.