Cappella-Augustana.org
Title
Cappella Augustana
Description
has been founded by the harpsichordist and organist Matteo Messori and brings together young performers who boast of many collaborations with the best European early music ensembles. The Cappella Augustana is particularly interested in the study of the relationships between Italy -cradle of Fine Arts- and the transalpine countries (often of a Protestant creed) during the late Reinnassance and the Baroque.
The distinguishing characteristic of this ensemble is the investigation and rediscovering of the works of some important musicians today undeservedly excluded from the musical and academic scene, together with the re-proposition of the original vocal/instrumental dispositions and techniques, after the latest studies conducted on the subject. The madrigalistic style of Sebastian Bach's liturgical music (sacred concertos and masses), for example, is considered as strictly related to the seventeenth century "bel canto" tradition (particularly that of the post-Carissiminian Collegio Germanico) and to the stylus luxurians and teatralis of the time.
The most modern and "sensitive" instances of the sacred compositions of Bach's elder son, Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-1784) constitute the temporal deadline of the "Cappella Augustana"s musical research.
