Baroque concert: Requiem and Credo by Antonio Lotti

place du 2 Février

The Strasbourg-based vocal and instrumental ensemble La Frattola presents 4 baroque music concerts. The composer Antonio Lotti (1667-1740) will be highlighted with 3 works: the Requiem in F major, the Credo, and the Sinfonia from his opera Ascanio. The Requiem in F major showcases the inventiveness and mastery of Antonio Lotti: extensive development of the choral fugues, tensions and collaboration, musical motifs borrowed from the era, bold allusions, the delicacy of arias such as the Lacrimosa, the softness and flexibility of harmonic constructions. A text from the period notes that “this wo…