La Vaghezza was the first group to win all three prizes at the prestigious Göttingen Händel Competition in 2018 and also won first prize in the Maurizio Pratola International Competition in 2016.
Interpretation
The album's title, 'Sculpting the Fabric', is inspired by the historical practice of performers adding graces, ornaments, improvisations, and diminutions to the musical score.
Historical Context
During the first half of the 17th century in Italy, while vocal music triumphed, instrumental pieces also gained autonomy, with treatises like Joachim Burmeister's Musica Poetica (1606) illustrating their rhetorical component.
Recording & Production
This album is part of the Collection Jeunes Ensembles by Ambronay Editions, which offers promising European ensembles the opportunity to make their first professional recording.
Performer Biography
La Vaghezza is a trio sonata ensemble specializing in historically informed performance of 17th and 18th-century music.
Compositional Technique
In the 1600s, much of the music's detail was not written into the score but left to the performer's sensibility, with great importance given to added graces, ornaments, improvisations, and diminutions.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The ensemble La Vaghezza's musical interpretations are guided by their search for 'La Vaghezza', an aesthetic concept describing a beauty that is impossible to fully grasp.
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