Janequin, Webern, Bloch
Quartetto Rilke

Quartetto Rilke

Giulia Gambaro, violin

Giada Visentin, violin

Giulietta Bianca Bondio, viola

Marina Pavani, cello

Clément Janequin (1485–1558)
Le chant des oyseaux

Anton Webern (1883–1945)
Langsamer Satz

Ernest Bloch (1880–1959)
In the Mountains

30’ | Ticket 8 €

The Museo Virgilio is animated by the naturalistic colors of the “sonic frescoes” of the extraordinary Quartetto Rilke, which, for the first time at Trame Sonore, leads us on a musical journey across different centuries and poetics. A path unified by a contemplative gaze on nature, a key element of the Festival’s new strand, Naturlaut.

The program opens with Clément Janequin and his Le chant des oyseaux, an emblematic work of the French Renaissance, in which the arrival of spring takes shape through vivid sonic realism and a rich interplay of onomatopoeic effects imitating birdsong, transforming music into a living, pulsating landscape. The journey continues into the early twentieth century with Anton Webern and his Langsamer Satz, a work of intense youthful lyricism: a suspended sonic landscape, inspired by the mountains of Lower Austria, in which the chamber writing becomes transparent, introspective, and deeply poetic, far removed from Webern’s later radical language. The program closes with Ernest Bloch’s In the Mountains, leading the listener into a more mystical and meditative dimension, where nature becomes a spiritual and internalized space, rich in echoes and symbolic resonances.

From the imitative vitality of the Renaissance to the rarefied lyricism of the early twentieth century, and finally to Bloch’s evocative mysticism, the audience is guided through a sonic itinerary that transforms nature into poetic experience—between contemplation, memory, and vision.

Text by Martina Sangermano