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6 December 2025 - 16:54
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11 September 2025 - 19:38
Another afternoon of musical walks with the SpinaCorona Festival which on Friday 21 September offers five concerts from 16.30:21.30 pm until the evening concert at XNUMX:XNUMX pm.
16.30pm SANTA CATERINA A FORMIELLO
Schubert Trio op.99
Stefania Cafaropiano
Daniel Orlandoviolin
Gabriele Geminianicello
The books tell that the Church, the first built in the city, was called a formiello because it was close to the ancient water formals and is among the most important of the Renaissance, the portal of 1659 is by Picchiatti. The dome is an example of unheard-of beauty and after the first restorations at the end of the nineteenth century it saw a final touch of modernity by the marble worker Gandolfi in the mid-twentieth century, when he created the pulpit and the floor whose sixteenth-century tombstones bore coats of arms, writings and Renaissance ornaments. At the center of the nave the burial of the sisters of the congregation of the Rosary of 1625 bears the images of four kneeling women that the trampling of time, gentlemen, has not yet erased. In the setting of this jewel three musicians Stefania Cafaro piano, Daniele Orlando violin, Gabriele Geminiani cello in the masterpiece by Franz Schubert that is at the heights of chamber music, will perform the masterpiece by Schubert composed in 1827/8 and performed for the first time in Vienna on January 28, 1828 in the Residence of Joseph von Spaun. It is one of the very few masterpieces performed while Schubert was alive, of whose wide success, therefore, the musician enjoyed and had full awareness, applause and honors.
17.45pm UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
The Soloists of the ORT
Mendelssohn Octet op.20
“This library is equipped with a “sufficient quantity of books for all sciences”, as they said in the early seventeenth century, when Pedro Fernandez de Castro, viceroy of Naples, reforming university studies, wanted its regulation to be modeled on the University of Salamanca”.
On Friday 21 September the Library will be the setting for the Concert which will see the ORT Soloists perform the octet written by Mendelssohn in Berlin in 1825 but presented to the public for the first time at the Paris Conservatory only in 1832.
19:XNUMX PM SAN DOMENICO MAGGIORE - Chapter Hall
Anthony Pay clarinet
Berio Sequence IX
Stravinsky Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo
Goehr Paraphrase on the Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda by Monteverdi
The history of the convent of San Domenico Maggiore is a marvel, rich in precious memories.
Where the magnificent church and large monastery now stand, there once existed an abbey of monks with a small church dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel of Morfisa.
The large courtyard of the convent is as old as the religion practiced there and for many centuries it was the temple of science, that is, the public gymnasium and the seat of the royal university of studies.
Friday 25 September will be the setting for the Concert featuring the great clarinetist ANTONY PAY, one of the most famous clarinettists in the world, who with his antique clarinet will perform three pieces: Luciano Berio's Sequenza IXa from 1980, Stravinsky's Three Pieces from 1919, Alexander Goehr's Monteverdi Paraphrase from 1973.
20.15pm SAN GREGORIO ARMENO
Thomas Rossi flute
Baroque Ensemble of Naples
Raffaele Tiseo and Marco Piantoni violins, Rosario Di Meglio viola, Manuela Albano cello,
Giorgio Sanvito violone, Patrizia Varone harpsichord
Mancini Concerto in G minor for flute, two violins, viola and basso continuo
Vivaldi Concerto for Strings in C major No. 5 RV 114 “of Paris”
Sarro Concerto in A minor for flute, two violins, viola and basso continuo
Vivaldi Concerto op. X n. 3 in D major RV 428 “Il Gardellino”
The Monastery of San Gregorio Armeno is among the oldest religious buildings in Naples. Some ancients say that it was built on the ruins of the temple of Ceres, others that construction began in the 8th century when a group of nuns, fleeing from Constantinople, brought the relics of San Gregorio Armeno there.
In the fifth chapel are the remains and relics of Saint Patricia, venerated by the Neapolitans to such an extent that the church is today popularly called by her name.
Mancini, Vivaldi and Sarro are the authors of the concerts that will be performed by the Baroque Ensemble of Naples, compositions from the first half of the 700th century, the Concertos by Mancini and Sarri are both from 1725, the Concerto in C minor was written between 1720 and 1724 while the Gardellino is from 1729.
21.30pm SAINTS SEVERINO and SOSSIO
Michele Campanella and Monica Leone pianos
Susanna Bertuccioli harp
The Soloists of the ORT
Ravel Introduction and Allegro
Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals
The second day of walks with Spinacorona will end in the Church of Saints Severina and Sossio where you can also admire the rare late sixteenth-century floor of the nave formed by the tombs of important Neapolitan families of the time and each tombstone is framed by polychrome marbles. The tombs were an important source of income and social prestige for the Benedictines, with the Concert that will see the performance of two pieces by Ravel Introduction and Allegro from 1905 and by Saint-Saens the Carnival of the Animals composed in 1886 when it was performed in a private concert but had its first public performance only in 1922.
All concerts are FREE ENTRY until seats are filled.
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