Concert
Paola Quagliata is a singer who has worked in many of Italy’s most important opera houses. Her repertoire consists mostly of baroque and 18th century music, both of which she has studied in-depth and performed with renowned musicians such as Ottavio Dantone, Gabriel Garrido, E. L. Banzo, Rubèn Dubrovsky and Roberto de Simone. However, she also sees herself as something of an omnivore, in the sense that she is open to music of many kinds, especially jazz, her second love after baroque. The cooperation with these great and eclectic musicians convinced her that baroque and jazz can offer the singer the same amount of artistic flexibility.
Her meeting with two great jazz musicians, Davide Corini (Piano) and Luca Garlaschelli (Contrabass), cannot have been fortuitous in this regard. Corini and Garlaschelli have collaborated with many celebrated Italian and American jazz men, such as Franco Cerri, Paolo Tomelleri, Tullio de Piscopo, G.L. Trovesi, Bruce Forman and Michael Rosen. Like Quagliata, they too were keen to explore music of multifarious varieties, and thus the trio was born.
Theirs is a project which, in the arrangements put together by Garlaschelli, seeks to fuse the extraordinary and enchanting lines of baroque melodies with the free and inventive improvisation of jazz. Along with changes in tempo, improvisation is in fact the primary common feature of these two musical styles. But there is also the freedom of expression entrusted to the performer, to say nothing of the swing, a typical mood of jazz, but one that we can also find in much vocal and instrumental music of the baroque period.
Program:
Antonio Vivaldi – Un Certo Non So Che
Antonio Caldara – Sebben Crudele
Antonio Sartorio – Oh Che Umore Stravagante
Henry Purcell – Ah, Belinda (from “Dido and Aeneas”)
W. A. Mozart – Deh Vieni Alla Finestra (from “Don Giovanni”)
Giacomo Carissimi – Vittoria, Vittoria!
Henry Purcell – When I Am Laid (Dido’s Lament from “Dido and Aeneas”)
Antonio Sartorio – Oh Che Umore Stravagante
G. F. Haendel – Lascia Ch’Io Pianga
W. A. Mozart – Ave Verum
G. F. Haendel – V’Adoro Pupille (from “Giulio Cesare”)
W. A. Mozart – Voi Che Sapete (from “Le Nozze di Figaro”)
Henry Purcell – Music For a While