A New Early Music Experience
The birth of a new group implies new stimuli, new requirements, new necessities. After years of activism, the promoters of this new adventure feel an urgency to renew the original spirit of the research movement in early music, restoring the evocativeness of sound – its sensory fertility – to the centre of each performance.
The centrality of sound, in fact, is the ideal and real paradigm of a rediscovery of period instruments and techniques, as well as of historical areas: spaces that nourish the noble senses of sight and sound through a perceptual experience of overwhelming beauty.
Consistent with the natures of the group’s founders (Ugo Giani, Fabrizio Lepri, Stefano Lorenzetti), the overall programme is built on constant dialogue between the most advanced findings of historical musicology and experimentation in actual practice – with no antiquarian interests, but rather a mission to render the music ever more alive and ‘speaking’ to a contemporary perspective. To this end, the mixing of diverse genres and repertories from throughout the world, from early music through ethnic to contemporary, is pursued not from the perspective of an immobile juxtaposition, but rather a revealing convergence of learning with perceptual worlds: it is the past that speaks to the present and the present that looks to the past.
