Intimate dialog - music for theorbo (lute) and voice - a Japanese master plays an extraordinary instrument from the Middle Ages. Florie Leloup (Belgium), vocals, and Yuichi Sasaki, theorbo
Theorbo - a Japanese master plays an extraordinary instrument from the Middle Ages
"A huge guitar with at least 14 strings" - this is how a young German knight once described the theorbo to his fiancée. Among the few masters who are still able to play this rare yet enchanting instrument today is the Japanese Yuichi Sasaki, who has been living in Germany for several years. Together with the young Belgian soprano Florie Leloup, he is now coming to Rügen to give a concert in the venerable Sagard church on Sunday, July 14, at 6 pm. He will be playing and singing works from the heyday of the theorbo in the 17th century. The instrumentation of one voice and lute or theorbo is particularly suitable for this repertoire due to its musical flexibility and intimacy.
The program includes works by Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Luigi Rossi, Franz Tunder and other masters of the early Baroque in Italy and Germany.
"The music of this period is rich in musical innovations. The text comes to the fore again and with it the individual feeling and the individual. The emotional state, "l'affetto", is of the utmost importance in this music.
