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Baroque ensemble on period instruments Francis Colpron, artistic director |
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Seasons > 2003-04 Season > Concerts > Invenzioni StravagantiFriday March 26, 2004, 8:00 pm Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours[a] 400, rue Saint-Paul Est — Vieux-Montréal, Québec [métro
Champ-de-Mars] Italian canzonas, sonatas and toccatas from the early Baroque. 
It was in Italy around 1600 that composers began to seek in music a means to express human emotions. Rather than writing intertwining polyphonic lines for voices, they began to feature individual lines in the first operas. They emancipated not only the human voice but also musical instruments. The violin, in particular, first attained perfection and individuality at this time. One of the early triumphs of the Baroque was to create instrumental music that was independent of the words, virtuosic, expressive, and extravagantly imaginative. This music, with its startling freedom of form, sounds as modern to us as it did when it was first heard. |