Quasi una fantasia

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Works from C.P.E.Bach, N.Matteis, van Eyck, G.Fritz, M. Blavet, Urs Aeberhard u.A.

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Anne Simone Aeberhard, recorders, and Mojca Gal, violin

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Improvisation – it sounds as if it arises in the moment, entirely free and unbound. Yet those who listen closely will notice: even within apparent freedom, fantasias—especially in Baroque music—follow certain patterns, idiomatic turns, and stylistic formulas. “Fantasia” or “quasi una fantasia” often refer to solo pieces that playfully move between structure and spontaneity.

Birdsong behaves in much the same way. What sounds like pure nature and unstructured expression reveals itself, upon closer listening, as a web of recurring motifs—a musical cosmos of its own.

The programme of this concert unfolds like a stream of thought. Transitions are intentionally left open; the sequence of pieces follows no linear dramaturgy, but rather a free, associative logic.