Seven Nights is a Baroque chamber music program with harpsichord unfolding through seven musical scenes that mirror the rhythms of daily life while tracing a journey of emotional transformation.
Night has long been a realm where imagination, memory and hidden thoughts awaken. In dreams, shadows take shape: fantasia, longing and fleeting visions. Yet the night may also reveal darker emotions, when sleep, which should bring solace and tranquility, turns instead into a place of torment and grief slowly transforms into anger. And yet there are moments when we turn to the night rather than the day, when dreams triumph over reality as a realm of escape and consolation, where longings and desires seem almost able to come true.
The program brings together Renaissance and Baroque vocal music, including Robert Johnson’s Care-charming Sleep, the French chanson Toutes les nuits, and Alessandro Scarlatti’s cantata Appena chiudo gli occhi, alongside Baroque sonatas, creating a dialogue across centuries about love, loss, dreams and the mysteries of the night.