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Trio Synchordia

Trio Synchordia

Alessandra Aitini, flute

Lorenzo Lombardo, viola

Federica Mancini, harp

Sofia Gubaidulina (1931–2025)

The Garden of Joys and Sorrows

Arnold Bax (1883–1953)

Trio Élégiaque

30’ | Admission with museum ticket

Within the evocative setting of the Fruttiere, this program brings together a contemporary work by Sofia Gubaidulina, animated by hypnotic energy, and a piece of more immediate communicative power: Arnold Bax’s Trio Élégiaque. The performance is entrusted to a young yet exceptionally talented ensemble, long associated with the Festival and its concerts at Palazzo Te: the Trio Synchordia.

The Garden of Joy and Sorrow was born under the strong influence of two contradictory literary phenomena: Sayat-Nova by Iv Oganov, dedicated to the Eastern storyteller of the same name, and the poetry of the German poet Francisco Tanzer. It is a sonic garden in which ecstatic blossoming is translated into a contrast between the brightness of natural harmonics and the unease of narrow, piercing intervals.

Responding to this dimension is Bax’s work, an intimate and poignant song veiled in delicate lyricism. Written in 1916 under the impact of the Irish uprisings, the piece features viola and flute chasing one another through sinuous textures over the harp’s fluid foundation.

Two opposing ways of sculpting sound that, within the breathing space of the Fruttiere, merge into a dialogue of enchantment and reflection.

Text by Desirée Blundi