The art of preluding

Free wil or destiny

"That al life is a dream, and dreams, dreams are"

These verses belong to Life is a Dream, and were written in 1636 by Pedro Calderón de al Barca. In this play there is the duality between the destiny foreseen by beings superior to man against the free will or the freedom of choice of the human being.
With this dialectic of thought that deeply marks the Baroque, we present our interpretation through music, representing this bifurcation with the Preludes.

Preludes are improvised compositions that allow the musician to tune and warm up on stage before performing a piece. The freedom of tempo allows better opportunities for fantasy and imagination, for mood change, for passion and emotion.

Prince Sigismund, son of King Basil of Poland, is, in this programme, the musician who carries out a fantasy. The prelude allows us to move from one tonality to another with eloquence and meaning, letting the musi- cian decide which path he wants to take and how he wants to get from his origin to his destination.

The moment in which Segismundo returns to the palace without being fully aware ofwho he really is and believing that everything is a dream, that moment, we say, is the moment that the musician must avoid. The Preludes are not predestined, the interpretation of the preludes should not respond to that false free will that does not work, because in them it is not all strictly improvised, there are some basic rules that a musician must know and must take into account if he does not want to fall into chaos, in meaningless sleep, in throwing a servant through a window
without having importance, because at the end of the day, actions have consequences.