Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible | I Fagiolini

I Fagiolini

Online sales are no longer available for tonight’s concert, however we still have tickets available in all areas, which will be on sale at Door C of the Sheldonian Theatre, from 6.00pm tonight.

I Fagiolini with guest speaker, and Leonardo expert, Professor Martin Kemp

Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, pioneer of flight, anatomist, scientist – yet according to Vasari, Leonardo’s first job outside Florence was as a musician. ‘Music cannot be regarded other than as the sister of painting‘, said Leonardo, so for the 500th anniversary of his death in 2019, I Fagiolini and Martin Kemp offer reflections of his images in vocal music: aural fantasia dei vinci – art through the prism of music, in works by Tallis, Victoria, Monteverdi, Bach, Howells and Daniel-Lesur. The title ‘Shaping the Invisible’ – Leonardo’s phrase – is a new commission by Adrian Williams and poet Gillian Clarke for eight voices, celebrating Leonardo’s scientific investigation and obsession with flight.

A series of Leonardo’s works will be projected during the concert, and the concert programme has been released on CD by CORO: COR16171.

‘I Fagiolini’s consort and solo singing are exemplary…’ Gramophone

‘If there’s a more enterprisingly theatrical vocal group than this one, I’ve yet to encounter it…’ The Telegraph