Archaeology of Emotions | New Epiphanies Festival | concert
About the event
“Archaeology of Emotions”
We invite you, together with Dr. Marcin Bogucki, to a concert of early music as part of the New Epiphanies Festival.
- Liam Byrne (viola da gamba)
- Jonas Nordberg (lute)
By studying historical sources and instruments that have survived to our times, we can almost fully reconstruct the sound of music from 300 years ago — but can we recreate the emotions it provoked? This unique project takes as its starting point Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s 1686 treatise on composition, in which the author writes about the emotional character of different keys. Instead of presenting complete works, Liam Byrne and Jonas Nordberg weave a fantasy about the repertoire two friends, shut away in one of Versailles’s rooms, might explore during an evening, combining movements and fragments according to the similarity of their emotional landscapes.
The artists search for operatic fragments by Lully in the viola repertoire of Marais, traces of court dances in the delicate lute music of Robert de Visée, weaving these elements into one evening of chamber music immersed in history but innovative in concept. By grouping pieces according to specific emotions, they open other “doors” to 17th-century music for listeners — less constrained by historical prescriptions and focused on direct expression.
Seating and lying-down spots will be available (please bring your own mat), allowing freer and deeper communion with the music.
Venue: National Museum, Al. Jerozolimskie 3, Warsaw
Date: 17.03.2026 (Tuesday) 19:00
Ticket price: regular 40 zł, reduced 25 zł
Tickets available on the National Museum in Warsaw website.
Duration: 70 min (with an intermission)
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