Spinacorona, the festival directed by Michele Campanella, at its third edition. From 10 to 13 October, great music on stage

There's a Naples in motion: it's young, modern, vibrant, and curious. It never stops. It's the city of Spinacorona, the festival that for four days and twenty-two concerts—all free and in 14 different venues—offers a glimpse of cultured sound and jazz to those who love music and Naples.
The festival conceived and directed by maestro Michele Campanella – promoted and supported by the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Naples and financed as part of the POC Campania 2014-2020 project “Creator Vesevo on the path among the Unesco gems from Naples to Pompeii”.
The festival reaches its third edition and continues its journey in the heart of the city: from October 10 to 13, to the cry of "Let's rediscover the Naples we have forgotten", the event will resonate bringing a breath of energy and events to follow one after the other. The format follows a precise philosophy: live music for 30-40 minutes and then, again, on the road to the next place where there will be more sounds and melodies performed by other instrumentalists.
The formula of the review offers – in an often unusual guise – prestigious protagonists of the Italian and international scene, gathered in Naples at the invitation of maestro Campanella. The result is always surprising.
This year, Spinacorona will be inaugurated by the very young violinist Giuseppe Gibboni, a rising star on the Italian scene, who will perform on Thursday, October 10 at 12:21 in a prologue concert in one of Naples' hidden gems, the Cappella del Real Manso on Via Nilo. At 2:4 pm, in the church of San Paolo Maggiore, Michele Campanella, together with the ORT Orchestra della Toscana, will perform Concertos no. XNUMX and no. XNUMX by Ludwig van Beethoven.
On the second day of the festival, the ORT Soloists will present at 16.30:1 pm in the University Library (in via Giovanni Paladino) the Sonatas for four no. 3 and no. 18 by Gioachino Rossini. At 19.30 pm, there will be a new appointment in the church of Santa Maria Donnalbina to listen to the Irish cellist and singer Naomi Berrill, for the first time in Naples, in a very particular program from Purcell and Barbara Strozzi to Nina Simone and Simon&Garfunkel. Another move and, at 21:34 pm in the Church of Santa Maria di Monteverginella (in via Paladino), Emanuele Arciuli will be busy at the piano in “American” pages by Adams, Cage and Rzewski. The commitments do not end here: at XNUMX pm, again in San Paolo Maggiore, Monica Leone and Michele Campanella will perform the Sonata op.XNUMXb by Brahms.
Saturday, October 12 offers eight concerts. It begins at 10 in the Church of Santa Maria di Monteverginella where the Argentine José Luis Juri will perform music by Nante and Ginastera; we will then move to via Vicaria Vecchia in the Durante Library, home – at 11,30:13 – of the concert by the Mestizo Sax Quartet; at XNUMX in the Chapter Hall of San Domenico Maggiore the Chagall Quartet will be engaged in the performance of Beethoven's Third Rasumovskij Quartet.
The afternoon program begins at 15 pm in San Paolo Maggiore with the duo Anthony and Joseph Paratore and the percussionists Tommaso Ferrieri Caputi and Vincenzo Miracula: the program features Lutoslawski and the extraordinary Sonata by Bartók. At 16.30:17.45 pm in the church of Santa Maria dell'Aiuto the mezzo-soprano Lucia Napoli and the pianist Marco Scolastra will take the spectators through the pages of Schumann's lieder; at 19.30:21 pm the precious Chapel of Santa Restituta, inside the Cathedral, will host Ralph Evans, Gérard Caussé and Dominque de Williencourt: the program features Francaix and Beethoven; the saxophones of Javier Girotto will meet the piano of Michele Campanella at XNUMX:XNUMX pm at the Donnaregina Museum for a quartet of important authors, Debussy, Ravel, Rachmaninov and Stravinskij. Finally, at XNUMX pm, a decidedly unusual event in the Church of Saints Severino and Sossio will resound the notes of Ferruccio Spinetti and Petra Magoni (Musica Nuda) in a concert entitled Verso Sud.
Eight more events for the last day of the festival, Sunday 13 October, which will open at 10 am in the University Library with the Fiesole Quartet and Vladimir Mendelssohn for the Quintet op.87 by another Mendelssohn, Felix; the sonatas of Saint-Saëns and Poulenc will be the protagonists of the concert for oboe and piano by Paolo Pollastri and José Luis Juri at 11.30 am in Donnalbina while Fabrizio Meloni's clarinet and Takahiro Yoshikawa's piano will meet at 13 pm in the church of Santa Maria di Monteverginella to perform Rota, Poulenc and Honegger.
The afternoon will open at 15 pm with the challenging Goldberg Variations by Bach performed at Santa Maria dell'Aiuto by Monica Leone's piano; then it will be the turn of the Wind Instruments of Santa Cecilia to perform the Serenade K.16.30 and the Overture from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in the Church of San Gregorio Armeno at 388:XNUMX pm.
The last three events of the festival will be held at 18 pm in San Marcellino and Festo, where Stefania Cafaro will perform Beethoven's Sonata op. 111 after Enzo Salomone has read excerpts from Mann's Doktor Faustus; at 19.30:21 pm in Donnaregina Ralph Evans, Dominique de Williencourt and Michele Campanella will play with the Tchaikovsky Trio and at 2019 pm, in the Sala Scarlatti of the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory the guest of honor of "Spinacorona XNUMX", the conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti, will close the Festival with an open rehearsal of pieces by Beethoven and Rossini with the Orchestra of the Conservatory
An agile and ambitious program that winds through the ancient center of Naples: Spinacorona is realized with the organizational support of the Fondazione Festival Pucciniano, the artistic coordination of Giovanni Oliva, the executive production of Progetto Sonora and delle Nuvole and the communication by the studios Artetica and Doppiavoce.
All concerts will be free admission until all seats are taken.