This programme offers a journey through the vocality of early 18th-century European instrumental music, where melody, that invisible line, sometimes simple, sometimes ornate, connects disparate styles, traditions and geographies.
From the explicit evocation of the human voice in Marin Marais' Les voix humaines or Handel's Lascia ch'io pianga, to the assimilation of vocal and operatic language in the sonatas of composers such as Bach or Telemann, melody becomes the expressive axis of musical discourse.
On the wings of song invites us to listen to Baroque instrumental music as a space where melody, freed from words, continues to speak with a human voice.