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L'Arsenale Ensemble

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.

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

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

The term “Ricercare” or “Ricercar” first appeared in the early 16th century and referred to an instrumental composition in free form. The search, or “ricerca”, could, and still can, involve a wide range of compositional approaches. These could take the form of composition workshops with tools ranging from counterpuntal artifices to the most bizarre timbre/acoustic solutions.


recercare_BACH

The first step, recercare_BACH, proposes a re-interpretation (transcription, transfiguration, erosion, etc...) ofthe work by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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 payshomage 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, cello
Lorenzo Tomio, guitar
Ilario Morciano, sax

Livia Rado e Silvia Toffano, sopranos
Francesca Poropat, contralto

Filippo Perocco, conductor