Barroca de cine

The Auditorio de Tenerife, as part of its Chamber Music Cycle, presents the concert Barroca de cine, by the Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife.

In the early 18^th century, French musical taste separated from the prevailing trend of ‘Italianisation’ in Europe, which gave rise to fascinating differences in French music that continue to captivate today's audiences. One example of this is the popularity of programmes of the French Baroque repertoire in the current revival of early music. And this is where cinema has contributed largely to the consolidation of this fanciful image of the sad, glorious past on the other side of the Pyrenees.

The rich ornamentation of the French style and the combination of timbres give rise to distinctive textures. The blending of the viol with other bowed instruments and recorders with oboes are examples of this. As a result of the sophistication deriving from contrasts-melancholy and euphoria, darkness and light, homophony and counterpoint, etc.-, cadence-laden melodies, rhythms, dances and contradances are moulded to the tastes of the opulent court or the everyday simplicities of France in 17th-century Baroque.

Although this is not the first such programme presented by the OBdT, it has much to do with cinema, or ‘de cine’, that Spanish expression that describes something so perfect it seems to exist in a film. The selected compositions, which will accompany a selection of images are much more than a soundtrack, a common musical thread or a pretext. They are the cultural result of a society that created its style, which we acknowledge with this programme and may be better understood through the French films Tous les matins du monde, Le Roi Danse and Vatel.