Concert

Motets, Johann Sebastian Bach

Baroque seasons at Villa Medici

05.02.2026

Franco Sorichetti

Riccardo Martinini

Since 2024, Villa Medici has featured a program of Baroque music. With this concert, Cappella Musicale inaugurates a project to systematically and continuously perform all of Bach’s works.

Between 1723 and 1734, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) established the German Baroque motet with his 7 motets. Masterpieces of polyphonic composition, they differ little from cantatas, except for the solo arias: they are in fact made up of a succession of pieces such as free choruses in fugal style, harmonized chorales and variations on the chorale.

The program by the Cappella Musicale of Villa Medici, directed by Riccardo Martinini, aims to highlight the link between Bach and tradition, as well as with one of the most important masters of the generation that preceded him, D. Buxtehude, while exploring the originality of the free and surprising construction of the parts, such as the daring treatment of harmony and dissonance.

La Cappella Musicale, created last year to bring together singers and instrumentalists in the magnificent setting of Villa Medici to offer concerts of Baroque music, will be accompanied for certain pieces by the young voices of the Laboratoire de Formation, just as the great Bach called on white, very young voices for his works.

Concert program
J.S.BACH: Mottetto Komm, Jesu, Komm BWV 229, a 8 voci in due cori e b.c. ( 8′ ca)
D.BUXTEHUDE: Cantata Jesu, meine Freude a 2 voci, violino e b.c (12′ ca)
J.S.BACH: Mottetto Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227, a cinque voci (20′ ca)
J.S..BACH: Mottetto O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht BWV 118, a quattro voci ( 6′ ca)
D.BUXTEHUDE: Versus dal Salmo Singet dem Herrn, per voce, violino e b.c (4′ ca)
J.S:BACH: Mottetto Singet dem Herrn BWV 225, a 8 voci in due cori e b.c. (13′ ca)
Baroque seasons at Villa Medici
Since 2024, Villa Medici has hosted a program of baroque music.

Il barocco musicale romano I: Giacomo Carissimi

Il barocco musicale romano II: Dead on the Tiber

Winter – Baroque seasons at Villa Medici

Spring – Baroque seasons at Villa Medici

Summer – Baroque seasons at the Villa Médicis (on the occasion of Nuit des Cabanes)

Autumn – Baroque seasons at Villa Medici
Cappella musicale de la Villa Médicis
Soprani chorus 1

Sofia Calenza
Susanna Coppotelli
Iuliia Petyrochenko

Soprano choir 2

Aurelia Colosimo
Giovanna Galelli
Irene Moretti

Alti choir 1

Martina Giannattasio
Margherita Scaramuzzino

Alti choir 2

Federico Mauro Marcucci
Marta Pacifici

Tenori chorus 1

Roberto Manuel Zangari
Marco Ciardo

Tenori chorus 2

Andrea Martucci
Igor Perovic

Bassi chorus 1

Alessio Neri
Valdrin Gashi
Paolo Barbato

Bassi chorus 2

Andrea Cristian Timoleoni
Nicolò Sasso
Michele Micocci

Training workshop and ARTIPELAGO YOUTH CHOIR prepared by Anna Tigli
Flavia Manzo, Asaki Iaquinta, Cecilia Zambianchi, Angelica Latteri, Sofia Virdia, Elena Perucchini, Aska Pefumi, Emma Virdia, Camilla De Lorenzo, Marco Fulvi, Mattia Carini, Vittoria Parylak, Francesco Nori
Violins Toki Takahashi, Lola Ottoni
Cello Antonio Mostacci
Low cello Sabine Mielke
Organ Fabio Marconetti

Conductor and cellist RICCARDO MARTININI

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Thursday, February 5, 2026
20h00
Grand Salon of Villa Medici

€20 (+€2 for online advance booking service), full price
15€, reduced price (over 65, under 26, holders of the Carta Feltrinelli)
12.50€, special reduced price for the Company (i.e. close relatives of the musicians, limited to two per person)

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