Melleo Harmonia Antigua

Baroque Ensemble

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"All the senses are capable of leading us to pleasure"
Compendium musicae, René Descartes (1596 - 1650)

The Baroque is the time of the humours or the affections. In opposition to the Renaissance, in which musical harmony should correspond to celestial harmony, Cartesian rationalism holds that music has as its purpose the production of sensory effects on the human spirit.
What can we say about musical production in the feminine, in a time when men rule, in which women are so often consigned to the cloister of some convent? Do we find in the works bravely signed by women the exploration of the sensitive moods catalogued by Descartes?
With the present programme Melleo Harmonia pays tribute to the female creators of the Baroque, aware of their importance in the history of music, and convinced of the importance of the dissemination of their works, as standards of the multifaceted nature of women.

Jenny Silvestre

Elizabeth Jacques de la Guerre (1665–1729)
Sonata n.º 1 em ré menor
Prelude
Presto
Adagio
Presto-Adagio-Presto
Aria
Presto

Wilhelmina von Bayreuth (1709–1758)
Sonata em lá menor
Affetuoso
Presto
Allegro

Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704)
Sonata Duodecima, Op. 16*

Anna Bon di Venezia (1738–1769)
Sonata em fá maior
Largo
Allegro
Presto

Anna Amalia von Prussen (1723–1787)
Sonata em si b maior
Adagio
Allegreto
Allegro ma non troppo

* © António Carrilho

António Carrilho, flutes
Catherine Strynckx, cello
Jenny Silvestre, harpsichord

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