ART CLASSICS: Metamorphosis with Nicholas Pollock

Name: ART CLASSICS: Metamorphosis with Nicholas Pollock
Start: 2024-10-27T10:00:00+10:00
Location: Art Gallery of Ballarat

Schedule

Sun Oct 27 2024 at 10:00 am

UTC+10:00

Location

Art Gallery of Ballarat | Ballarat, VI

Internationally-acclaimed lutenist and theorbist Nicholas Pollock takes us on a breathtaking voyage into the kaleidoscopic world of the guitar’s ancestors. Transporting us to the momentous brink of the emergence of the world’s most popular instrument, Metamorphosis explores the bridge between the final glorious blaze of harmony from the late Renaissance, into the dawning of the age of the eccentric and ornate Baroque, presenting the compositions of Italian masters of the plucked string – Kapsperger, Castaldi, Caccini, and Piccinini. This intricate musical mosaic is masterfully performed for us on the theorbo, also known in Italian as the chitarrone, literally “the large guitar” – exemplifying the centuries-old human urge to make more sound, and the beginnings of a trajectory that led us ultimately to metal.