Solve et coagula

Description

This new recording pays tribute to an obscure and mysterious figure of 18th-century Naples: Prince Raimondo di Sangro. At once soldier, scientist, poet, alchemist and Freemason, this figure has left us as his legacy a palace and a magnificent chapel, the setting of the tragedy that was at the origin of the murder committed by the great composer Gesualdo. In this chapel are still preserved artistic and scientific works that are both beautiful and mysterious, which serve as an initiatory journey for the visitor. Guido Morini and Marco Beasley’s intuition was to use this journey and make it the dramatic framework of a singular and innovative work, which they titled Solve et Coagula, a formula dear to alchemists. A true dramma per musica, this work calls on different “historical” creative processes in order to make us discover a unique story, to the rhythm of tarantellas, ostinatos and mysterious fugues...