THE FRINGE PRESENTS - Con obligo di cantare - Kersten Cottyn, harpsichord - Dec 14, 2023 at 18.00

December 14, 2023 at 18:00
Sockerbruket 17, 4th floor
THE FRINGE PRESENTS
Con obligo di cantare
- A 17th-century style sing-along concert
Kersten Cottyn, harpsichord
***
LIMITED NUMBER OF SEATS
Reserve your spot by sending an email to [e-mail]
070 - 825 74 11
CHEESE FEE
100 SEK
***
Much like the taste of Italian oil from freshly harvested olives, there is something about the quality and purity of the early Italian keyboard repertoire that is hard to put into words. It is simply something to be savored again and again. Having played this repertoire since my childhood, it is a privilege to revisit it for this occasion, bringing my Italian harpsichord built by Graziano Bandini (after Mattia di Gand, 1685).
The program begins with a Recercada by Marc’Antonio Cavazzoni, whose keyboard music was published in 1523 and marks the beginning of independent keyboard music in print.
Another 500-year anniversary to celebrate is William Byrd, whose music was influenced by the Italian style and who combines in this Fantasia both forms of vocal music and Renaissance dances, where you can even hear the cosmos with its planets and their eternal movements.
In Girolamo Frescobaldi’s keyboard music, which is the main course of the evening, the harpsichord speaks a humanlike language. The pieces in this program are based on famous songs of the time, where people believed that the human voice is a substance that, with the help of air and vibrations, affects the body and modifies the liquid balances in the body. Perhaps little known is that he also composed the famous song “We wish you a merry Christmas,” where the audience will be kindly invited to join in singing.
- Kersten Cottyn
PROGRAM
MARCO ANTONIO CAVAZZONI (C. 1490-C. 1560)
Recercada
GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI (1583-1643)
Capricci, libro primo: capriccio VII sopra l’aria “Or che noi rimena”
Toccate e partite d’intavolatura di cimbalo, libro primo: toccata ottava
Capricci, libro primo: capriccio V sopra la Bassa Fiammenga
WILLIAM BYRD (1543-1623)
Fantasia in a minor
GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI
Capricci, libro primo: capriccio XI con obbligo di cantare la quinta parte, also known as l’aria “We wish you a merry Christmas”
BIO
Kersten Cottyn is an organist and harpsichordist specialized in early music, with a specific interest in ensemble playing. Kersten has collaborated with artists such as Currende Consort, Hildebrandt Consort, Göteborg Baroque, Wouter Dekoninck, Erik Van Nevel, Liuwe Tamminga, Lene Langballe, Anna Maria Friman Henriksen, Samuel Johansson, and Sir John Elliott Gardiner. As an artist, she likes to explore different musical worlds and sounds. Her interest in folk, jazz, and electronic music leads to creative experiments with her collective ‘Cypress Sounds’. Kersten has been teaching organ, harpsichord, and early music in music academies in Belgium and was a guest professor at the School of Arts in Ghent. She currently works as an organist in Valla Church on the Isle of Tjörn (Sweden) and is the Director of the Youth Organ Festival for Gothenburg's International Organ Festival.
Harpsichord built by Graziano Bandini (2019)
FILM
Jon Liinason