Lamento Project
A unique trio combining different passions between music of the 17th and 21st centuries. Led by Polish soprano Dorota Szczepanska, the Hanover based group is composed of Israeli lutenist Alon Sariel and German Jazz bassist Peter Schwebs. Unable to execute their planned 2020 agenda as soloists and ensemble musicians, the three found themselves in their own neighbourhood and were immidiately funded by the NeuStart Kultur scholarship to support their first steps together. Early 2022 will see the release of their Album, under the title Lamento Project.
The program includes music blocks in which one song flows smoothly into another, swinging between baroque and popular music with a hint of jazz !
For a good hour of highly creative arrangements, Handel, Monteverdi, Purcell or Stradella will team up with Sting, Bob Telson, a Mexican folk ballad La Llorona or Priscilla’s song from the computer game The Witcher. Some of the most beautiful lamenti of the Baroque will be presented : Lamento d’Arianna, Dido’s Lament, Lamento della Ninfa, next to the newly composed Miranda’s Lament, based on Shakespeare’s „The Tempest” – by Krzysztof A. Janczak, created especially for Lamento Project.
The concert as a whole conveys the story of lamento as a timeless phenomenon, heterogeneous, full of colors and shades, that ultimately leading to relief !
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