Ravenna Festival
Ex tenebris ad lucem
Luce e tenebre nella musica medievale fra l’XI e il XIV secolo
laReverdie
musiche di
Tommaso da Celano, Perotinus Magnus, Wipo von Burgund, Hildegard von Bingen, Guillame Du Fay e altri autori
“The contrast between […] darkness and light, like that between summer and winter, was more strongly marked than it is in our lives”, wrote Johan Huizinga in The Waning of the Middle Ages: day and night, light and darkness marked the difference between good and evil, life and death, soul and body. Affliction, distress and downfall match darkness in the Dies irae by Thomas of Celano, while the sun and stars dress and crown Mary in Guillaume Du Fay’s setting of Petrarch’s Vergine bella. Our musical journey will stretch between these extremes, the xi and the xv centuries, and then leap forward to the present with three compositions by Doron Sherwin and Elisabetta de Mircovich, long-time members of laReverdie, a reference ensemble for medieval music for more than 20 years.
