"Who is free from melancholy? These are the words of Robert Burton in his famous Anatomy of Melancholy, which Geoffroy Jourdain and Les Cris de Paris bring to life in this programme set at the crossroads of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, combining Italian and English madrigals.
The catalyst for this encounter, which is as logical as it is unexpected, is the fifty nuances of a state that is both morbid and creative: the black bile of melancholy.
Melancholy of the night that brews anguish and darkness in its black chalice, melancholy that revels in itself in a vicious and exhilarating pleasure, melancholy that reflects itself in the vanities of existence, melancholy that finally sinks into nightmares and madness.
It's a melancholy that is intimately linked to music, a music in which harmonic audacity and the expressive use of chromaticism and dissonance both exalt and heal it in gentle fumigations.
Types
- Music
- Music
- Classical music