As part of the program for L’Aquila 2026, Italian Capital of Culture, the “B. Barattelli” Concert Society of L’Aquila presents the third event of the 30th edition of the Organ and Early Music Festival “Music and Architecture – Places of Time and Music,” featuring the ensemble The Bowline, founded in 2025 by Teodoro Baù —one of Italy’s leading experts on the viola da gamba—with Margherita Burattini on the harp, Giulio Petrella on the viella, and Paolo Del Toro on the harpsichord.

The program “Mil flores amarillas” (A Thousand Yellow Flowers) explores the art of diminution—that is, the melodic embellishment typical of early performance practice: a living tradition that breaks down the fourth wall between past and present, free-spirited and surprisingly relevant today. A central figure in the repertoire is Diego Ortiz da Toledo (1510–1570), author of the famous *Tratado de Glosas* (Rome, 1553), whose *Recercados* are performed alongside instrumental reductions of vocal works such asthe six-voice*Alma Redemptoris Mater *. Rounding out the program are works by Antonio de Cabezón, Diego Pisador, and Juan Bautista Cabanilles, all exponents of the Spanish Renaissance and contemporaries of Raffaello Sanzio—whose painting *The Visitation*, commissioned by the Branconio family for the Church of San Silvestro in L’Aquila, is arriving in L’Aquila these days after centuries.

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