L'Arsenale is a workshop, a music lab, whose aim is to create/perform new music through the collective experimentation of composers and players.

recercare is a project developed within the ensemble L'arsenale which intends to rewrite, in the widest sense of this artistic expression, pages coming from a vast range of areas.

The first step, recercare_BACH, proposes a re-interpretation (transcription, transfiguration, erosion, etc...) of the work by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Bach headed his Musikalisches Opfer with the inscription Regis Iussu Cantio Et Reliqua Canonica Arte Risoluta whose initials form the word “Ricercar”.

We are aware of Bach’s devotion to Italian music, in particular, the music of Girolamo Frescobaldi whose collection Fiori Musicali he copied out in his own hand.
This is why, in addition to the new works commissioned to young composers, the programme proposes György Ligeti’s Ricercare, where the Hungarian composer pays homage to one of the leading Italian early Baroque composers.

music by: Stefano Trevisi*, Eric Maestri*, Andrew Byrne*, Lorenzo Tomio*, Filippo Perocco*, Nildo Sanvido*, György Ligeti, Marco Lenzi.
* commissioned by L'arsenale

Luca Piovesan, accordion
Massimo Raccanelli, violoncello
Lorenzo Tomio, guitar
Ilario Morciano, sax

Livia Rado e Silvia Toffano, sopranos
Francesca Poropat, contralto

Filippo Perocco, director