Gli Incogniti · Amandine Beyer

AMANDINE BEYER · GLI INCOGNITI

Amandine Beyer, violin and conductor | Neven Lesage and Gabriel Pidoux, oboes | Alejandro Perez-Marin, dulcian | Eleonora Biscevic and Manuel Granatiero, flutes | Roberta Cristini and Renaud Guy-Rousseau, clarinets | Théo Suchanek and Cyril Vittecoq, cors anglais | Yoko Kawakubo, Flavio Losco, Vadym Makarenko, Alba Roca, Katia Viel and Helena Zemanova, violins | Marta Páramo and Ottavia Rausa, violas | Marco Ceccato and Rebeca Ferri, cellos | Anna Fontana, harpsichord | Francesco Romano, theorbo | Baldomero Barciela, violone | Clément Losco, tabors

A. Vivaldi: Concerto in C major, RV 556 "Per la Solennità di San Lorenzo" / Concerto for 2 Oboes in A minor, RV 536 / Concerto in F major, RV 572 “Il Proteo ò sia Il mondo al rovescio” / Concerto for violin and oboe in G minor, RV 576 / Concerto for flute in E minor, RV 432 / Concerto in D major, RV 562 "Per la Solennità di San Lorenzo".

The Baroque replaces imitation of the classics with invention, dramatisation, ingenuity, the capacity to dazzle. The world upside-down, together with the folly of the world and the image of the theatre of the world, sum up the Baroque period's vision of the world. The violinist Amandine Beyer and her group Gli Incogniti return to the Torroella Festival to present to the public, for the first time, the programme of the next album that they will record in Torroella de Montgrí, Il mondo al rovescio (The world upside-down), a journey through Vivaldi at his most playful, ironic, outlandish and perverse. Drawing from the typical fantasy of 18th-century Baroque illuminist thought, he deliberately upset the established order in some of his concertos, turning the world upside down with an inventive visual and musical game that opens unexpected doors to the mystery of sounds.