Lamentazione

Subtil weaving between vocal and instrumental lamentations of the Italian Seicento for Holy Week (G. Frescobaldi, G. Carissimi, GF Marcorelli) and contemporary complaints, the concert stretches these fragments of the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah, timeless symbol of despair, whose painful climate evokes the passion of Christ in a premonitory way. Zad Moultaka constructs, in counterpoint, these lessons of darkness his Exercises of light, works on the same texts, inserts instruments and oriental modes.

The two cycles intertwine where learned and popular Mediterranean traditions intersect in the heart of a cathartic and radiating suffering.

Zad Mouktaka started working with Concerto Soave in 2011 to create with the choir the elements The Passion according to Mary. This first encounter around such a sublime theme has further sharpened, if necessary, the desire to deepen exchanges and research on instruments and baroque temperament. Here is born the idea to associate with Lamentations of Jeremiah, one of the jewels of the repertoire of the ensemble, object of a unanimously acclaimed CD, pieces chiseled by the experience of the Passions of Zad Moultaka and his long-term work on oriental instruments, accomplished over the years with his project Mezwej.
The theme of the “lamenti” is particularly suited to musical treatment, as if any complaint sprang between cry and song. In the Mediterranean, it would suffice to be attentive to sound survivals, lodged in the crevices of the rocks and scattered in the dust of time, to hear the supplicating songs of humanity unfold. It is these echoes that Zad Moultaka tears out of the matter to put them in tension in his writing, his “light exercises”.

February 28, 2017 premiere Arsenal de Metz by Concerto Soave, Mezwej & María Cristina Kiehr, soprano, Matthias Spaeter, archiluth, Sylvie Moquet, viole de gambe, Henri Agnel, oud, rebek, Jean-Marc Aymes, harpsichord, organ and direction

March 3, 2017 Mars Festival in Baroque, Marseille by Concerto Soave, Mezwej & María Cristina Kiehr, soprano, Matthias Spaeter, archiluth, Sylvie Moquet, viole de gambe, Henri Agnel, oud, rebek, Jean-Marc Aymes, harpsichord, organ and direction

co-commission Mezwej & Metz-en-scène