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Over the centuries, music has played a major role in making the fear and uncertainty of epidemics more bearable. Accademia Amsterdam initiates a project with comforting music by Charpentier, combined with light-footed fragments from Dante's story “Decamerone”. The main work on the programme is “Pestis Mediolanensis”, translated as the Plague of Milan, of Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704). This oratorio describes the misery but also the gratitude for the disappearance of the disease.
The concert will take place on June 18.

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Artistic director of Accademia Amsterdam Onno Verschoor, “camped” for three days last autumn in a cold church: the Grote Kerk in Dordrecht. Together with city organist Cor Ardesch he recorded a special CD, in which the organ is assigned a role as a chamber music instrument.
In music by Bach, Telemann and Bach's colleague Krebs, the richness of sound of the organ is fully explored. In an intimate way it mixes and competes with the oboe, the oboe d'amore and the flute.

If you would like to support Accademia Amsterdam, you can do so by purchasing the CD directly through our website.