Dfter the success of the first part in October, entirely dedicated to the cello, Sicut Sagittae, the baroque music festival at the Domus Ars cultural centre, produced by Il Canto di Virgilio and directed by Antonio Florio, resumes with four new events. On November 28 and 30 and December 1 and 2, the focus will be on some rare musical instruments from the Baroque era. “For the first time, our review has a theme that brings together two complementary parts that are intentionally separated in time to explore the many new and curious proposals of the musicians we bring to Naples. After having dedicated the first part to the cello, the theme of the second part is “Per ogni sorti d'istromenti”, a phrase that accompanied many Italian musical editions between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.” – explains the artistic director Antonio Florio who adds – The second part of Sicut Sagittae focuses on a series of instruments and repertoires of rare listening and great charm. Worth mentioning is the return of the singer-actor Pino De Vittorio in his most typical and authentic popular repertoire, songs from all over the South that he himself researched and masterfully reinterpreted with the support of Marcello Vitale's chitarra battente. Among the unusual instruments we mentioned is the psaltery by Franziska Fleischanderl, one of the most authoritative European performers and researchers of the instrument, accompanied by the archlute of Vinicius Perez. Following, Catalina Vicens with the concert-seminar “Cembalo di Partenope” in collaboration with the Conservatory of Naples, and Patrizia Bovi (founder of Micrologus) who with Crawford Young – on the lute and the rarer zither – will present the first results of her research on improvisers of poetry for music between Humanism and the Renaissance. Then, a production of young musicians trained in our Department of Ancient Music at the Naples Conservatory sees the Porte-de-Voix group, directed by Angelo Trancone, try their hand at an unpublished oratorio by the recently rediscovered composer, Donato Ricchezza (La caduta degli angeli), a manuscript from the Girolamini Archives in Naples that I myself transcribed for them”. “Most of the concerts – adds Dinko Fabris, musicological consultant of the festival – are in collaboration with the artistic doctorate program “docARTES” of the University of Leiden and present the most advanced research in the ancient sector in Europe”.
Article published on November 26, 2018 - 10:57
