PCM 3 - La Tarantella

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Cadogan Hall5 Sloane Terrace, London, Greater London, SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom

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Performers

L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar	Theorbo, Director

La Tarantella is a sequence of Baroque, traditional and
improvised music inspired by the age-old myth
of the power of music to heal the venomous
bite of the tarantula spider; including works by
Falconieri, Kapsberger, Kircher and Soler.The tarantella, the entrancing dance form found in
several Mediterranean countries, is the unifying
thread here. L’Arpeggiata’s programme recalls the
popular myth that the bite of the tarantula could only
be cured by music and dancing, a remedy known
since the Middle Ages as ‘tarantismo’. The associated
songs and improvisations – tailored to match the
varied symptoms of torpor, excitability and
restlessness afflicting victims of the spider’s poison
– are revived
in a virtuosic
performance that
transcends generic
boundaries. The
innovative
period-instrument
ensemble is joined
by dancer Anna
Dego.

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Proms Chamber Music 3: Sensual rituals with L'Arpeggiata at Cadogan Hall

Frances Wilson, 30th July

In a programme inspired by “tarantism”, the delirium caused by the bite of the tarantula spider, and the sensual rituals and hypnotic healing powers of the Tarantella, early-music and Baroque crossover group L’Arpeggiata transported the audience of Cadogan Hall to the seductive heat of southern Italy with a mesmerizing concert of music by Monteverdi, Strozzi, contemporary Italian composer Marcello

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