Melopoetica is to perform rhetorically under the baroque mandate of affectus movere – Iason Ioannou.
Melopoetica is a term used by scholars and composers of the 17th and 18th centuries alike, to describe the relationship between rhetoric and music.
Melopoetica or musica poetica, from the Greek melos = melody and poiesis = poetry, is very closely related with the baroque doctrine of the affections (affektenlehre) and the musical pathos. To move, affect and stir the passions is the main aim of the baroque with the ultimate goal of an edifying experience.
Reviews
This was a taut, intelligent, artfully lit show, with some sensational playing from the young violinist Barbara Barros.
Review on the Independent on Sunday, 06/09/2009
It is greatly to the credit of Melopoetica that they can successfully re-introduce such music to modern audiences and present it with flair and virtuosity.
Tilford Bach Society, Ian Sargeant 16/11/2007
Bárbara unfolded a torrential energy showing that she is one of those interpreters that knows that the score is not a sacred text and immutable... the inventiveness, the fantasy and the wisdom exceeds her
recital review by Mariano Jimenez (Musicologist, Composer) 25/10/05
We were impressed by the imagination and color in your programme ... Your playing has charm and exciting individuality
OAE panel 24/10/05