Event programme

Chat with ensemble Cuerdas al pasado (SI/HR)

Artists’ message to visitors: Baroque music is an inexhaustible source of music that never ceases to amaze. Bach and Handel, best known to a wider audience, are only the top of the mountain, to which countless paths lead, on which every well-read individual can discover something new. The performers of the Cuerdas al Pasado programme work not only in the field of early music, but we all look at music as something eternal, and baroque music inspires us with its beauty, artistry, effects and, finally, its eternity. We believe that this is not museum music that should be kept in a sterile, over-insured atmosphere, but that it needs to be given freshness, so we invite the audience to a journey that they have probably never been on, and we believe that they will be pleasantly surprised by what they see and hear.

The mission statement of the ensemble: The ensemble's mission is to explore baroque music from the areas of today's Italy and Spain. Even then, various influences of African, Latin, and Arabic music were strongly present in this music, which is still potentiated today, for example, in flamenco music. This is also why in our work we do not look strictly at the performance of the notes, but we want to enrich the music with improvisation and various modern approaches, which we believe that, if they had known, the musicians of the time would have accepted them with enthusiasm.

Recording: Radio Slovenija, Program Ars