Christina Pluhar | Malena Ernman
Terra Mater – Nature in Music
L’Arpeggiata
The concert Terra Mater brings together two extraordinary artists and personalities: the Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman, in an extensive repertoire ranging from Baroque to the twentieth century, has conquered the leading stages of Europe and also represented her native country in 2009 at the Eurovision Song Contest. She is moreover politically active and at the side of her daughter Greta Thunberg fights for climate protection.
The lutenist, conductor and composer Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L’Arpeggiata have long been established as a fixed star in the constellation of the international Early Music scene and regularly cause a stir with conceptual concert programmes that abound in associations and in which folk and jazz music are anything but taboo.
In their programme Terra Mater – Mother Earth – the intellectual musicians resound in a hymn to creation and brave the musical barrage of the forces of nature. From the surging of ocean waves to the bluster of tempests, from the intoxicating song of the nightingale to the impish call of the cuckoo – the concert unites extravagant instrumental and vocal evocations of nature from the Baroque era along with melodies arranged by Pluhar herself from the repertoire of archetypal and earthy European folklore. An evening reminding us that even the beauty of music is not to be taken for granted as a gift of the nourishing Mother Earth …
