Metamorphosis
Astronio

Claudio Astronio, organ

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)

Toccata avanti la Messa (Missa Orbis Factor)

Philip Glass (1937)

Music in Contrary Motion

Girolamo Frescobaldi

Canzon dopo la pistola

Philip Glass

Metamorphosis II

Girolamo Frescobaldi

Toccata chromatica per la Levatione

Philip Glass

Metamorphosis III

30' | Ticket offered by Oficina OCM and Gruppo Tea

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An eclectic performer and tireless researcher, Claudio Astronio is one of the most multifaceted figures on today’s international Baroque music scene. With this program, Astronio approaches the instrument as an extension of the human voice: the heart of the concert lies in the alternation between the works of Frescobaldi and Glass, through which the musician highlights how music — whether ancient or modern — continually seeks to transcend matter itself. The finale is entrusted to Frescobaldi’s Toccata chromatica per la Levatione, a masterpiece of seventeenth-century harmonic daring that, together with Metamorphosis III, completes the circle of this sensory experience.

In this journey across centuries, the organ ceases to be merely an instrument and becomes instead a guardian of the soul, transforming every note into a breath of timeless contemporaneity.

Text by Antonio Pio Caliendo