Roots of love

The Baroque garden of emotions was lush and untamed, with music given the fruitful task of tracing the soul’s innermost transformations and laying bare the flora of the heart. Earthly passion and heavenly devotion meet in arias where love blooms in triumphant splendor, only to be caught, a moment later, in sorrow and loss. A thread of contemporary Finnish verse runs through the concert, giving voice to the same timeless longing that inspired the composers.