(c) Roberta Serra Bologna Festival: Brezza Ensemble
Bologna, Oratorio San Filippo Neri — Main Hall
About the Event
Trained at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, the three musicians bring together traverso, viola da gamba, and harpsichord in a journey through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The programme alternates extemporaneous preludes with works by Handel, Bach, Quantz, Couperin, Leclair, and Rameau, shaped by a narrative that unfolds differently each time: one day at a time.
There is an ancient gesture that prepares listening: the improvised prelude, a brief moment of warming up, tuning, and sonic imagination. Ensemble Brezza places this practice at the centre of a project that revives what was once essential for every professional musician, transforming it into a narrative device—piece by piece, “chapter” by chapter.
PROGRAMME:
THE ART OF PRELUDING
Day 1
Preludio (improvisation)
Georg Friedrich Händel Ouverture from Rinaldo (arr. Ensemble Brezza)
Preludio (improvisation)
Jacques Morel Défense de la basse de viole: Chaconne for three instruments in G minor
Day 2
Preludio (improvisation)
Johann Joachim Quantz Flute Sonata in G major No. 273: Presto ma fiero
Georg Friedrich Händel Flute Sonata No. 2 in E minor “Halle Sonata”
Preludio (improvisation)
Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata for viola da gamba in G minor, BWV 1029
François Couperin Les Goûts‐réunis, Fourteenth Concert: Sarabande
Day 3
Preludio (improvisation)
Jean‐Marie Leclair Sonata in D major: Sarabande
Johann Sebastian Bach Flute Sonata in E minor
Preludio (improvisation)
Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Pièces de clavecin en concerts
Concert No. 5 in D minor: La Forqueray / La Cupis / La Marais
Cast / Production
Ensemble Brezza
Pablo Gigosos traversiere
Marina Cabello del Castillo baroque flute
Teun Braken viola da gamba
Address
Oratorio San Filippo Neri, Via Manzoni 5, Bologna, Italy — Google Maps
