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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250830T203000
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URL:https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/events/la-vendita-del-cuore-umano-th
 e-sale-of-the-human-heart-by-giovanni-legrenzi-1626-1690/
SUMMARY:La vendita del cuore umano (The sale of the human heart) by Giovann
 i Legrenzi (1626-1690)
DESCRIPTION:In his intense and varied compositional activity\, in addition 
 to masses\, motets\, arias and canzonettas\, instrumental sonatas and dram
 as for music\, GIOVANNI LEGRENZI (1626-1690) also had the opportunity to w
 rite a dozen oratorios\, of which only three have survived intact.\nIt is 
 worth mentioning here that\, in the first half of the 17th century\, the v
 icissitudes of the musical oratorio were intertwined with those of the con
 temporary drama for music. From melodrama\, the oratorio takes up the form
 al attitudes and musical content\, but not the scenic apparatus\, since it
  had\, at least in its initial phase\, to perform a purely devotional func
 tion and ‘propaganda fidei’.\nOn the evening of 30 August 20225\, in t
 he Basilica of the Beata Vergine del Paradiso in Clusone\, the ‘Nova Ars
  Cantandi’ ensemble\, conducted by Giovanni Acciai (www.giovanniacciai.i
 t)\, with Ivana Valotti\, at the organ\, and with the extraordinary partic
 ipation of Sandro Cappelletto\, will present the first contemporary perfor
 mance of the oratorio for four voices\, by Giovanni Legrenzi\, La vendita 
 del cuore umano (The sale of the human heart)\, on a poem by Pier Matteo 
 Petrucci (1636-1701).\nFirst performed in Ferrara in 1676\, at the Accadem
 ia della Morte\, this oratorio immediately enjoyed great success\, consoli
 dating Legrenzi's reputation as one of the greatest composers of his time.
  It was repeated in Vienna\, in the chapel of Emperor Leopold I\, in 1692\
 , and four years later\, in Venice\, in the Philippine Oratory of Santa Ma
 ria della Consolazione detta della Fava\, where Legrenzi was to be buried 
 after his death on 27 May 1690.\nThe oratorio La vendita del cuore umano 
  is divided into two parts\, animated by four characters: the Heart\, the 
 Guardian Angel\, Pleasure\, and the World\, in the first part\; and by as 
 many in the second: the Heart\, the Guardian Angel\, Christ and the Devil.
 \nThe first part tells of the human heart that succumbs to the flattery an
 d pleasures of earthly life and declares that it is willing to sell itself
  to the highest bidder\, urged in vain by the guardian angel to desist fro
 m this insane intention. In the second part\, disappointed and repentant f
 or having transgressed the divine commandments\, the human heart desires t
 o abandon the sinful life it has undertaken\; it invokes Christ's clemency
  and obtains salvific forgiveness.\nIn order to make the spiritual tone of
  Petrucci's poem even more pregnant\, it was decided to accompany it with 
 an intense dramaturgical reflection by Sandro Cappelletto\, as St. Philip 
 Neri used to do in the Roman Church of Santa Maria in Vallicella during hi
 s spiritual exercises.\nLegrenzi intones the verses of the Petruccian libr
 etto with airy\, flowing and casual melodies\, precisely following the agi
 le flow of the verses but also careful to keep their dramaturgical tempera
 ture and affective communication high at all times.\nA music that seduces 
 by its spontaneity\, its freshness\, its creative exuberance. A music that
  not only makes Legrenzi's work worthy of being rediscovered and re-propos
 ed in our times\, but even more worthy of being preserved as a cultural he
 ritage\, as a distinctive sign of that style of musical Baroque from Berga
 mo\, so much admired and imitated\, not only in Italy but in every other p
 art of Europe\, during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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CATEGORIES:Festivals
LOCATION:Church of the Blessed Virgin of Paradise\, Paradise Square\, Cluso
 ne\, Bergamo\, 24023\, Italy
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