The sixth edition of the Baroque Music Festival is underway "Like Arrowhead", which opens the concert season of Carlo Faiello's Domus Ars Cultural Center.
The festival will open its doors Friday September 24 at 20.00 pm, then
continue the 26 and 28, and again with the concerts of Friday October 1 and the final evenings of Thursday 7 e Friday October 8.
The Festival will be inaugurated with a first modern performance of Donato Veneziano The Oratory of Saint Anthony of Padua, an oratorio for 5 violins. The commitment of continues without stopping Antonio Florio, who also carries out intense teaching work as the creator and director of the Department of Early Music of the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory of Naples (where he founded the first Italian second level master's degree in ancient music) and who continues his work of researching musical treasures in the libraries of Campania in collaboration with the musicologist Dinko Fabris, a consultant since the birth of the group.
"A focus on 17th century music, rarely performed, to which 18th century music is preferred, mistakenly thinking it is more accessible" - explains Antonio Florio - "A repertoire with which, after 35 years of study, I feel completely at ease. With my work I try to relaunch it because music must primarily be performed. This year, after having dedicated several programs to the still unexplored repertoire of Donato Ricchezza, I will present first modern performances of Gaetano Veneziano".
We range once again from the still unexplored Neapolitan seventeenth century to the historical twentieth century, with a series of unpublished or rare pages performed by professionals of several generations united by the common practice and passion in the didactic furrow that we have traced in Naples in recent years.
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The inauguration features solo voices and baroque instruments of the Neapolitana chapel the first modern performance of another oratorio by Gaetano Venetian (after the Passion and the Oratorio della Trinità already engraved by Florio), a masterpiece from 1692 which summarises the entire lesson of his master Francesco Provenzale, paving the way for modernity.
And Provenzale continues the cycle of the integral of the important works Motets for the Treasure of San Gennaro (1689) in the performance of the group Port-de-Voix directed by Angelo Trancone, with Leslie Visco and Giuseppina Perna.
The baroque violin is the protagonist of an unusual “Harmonious journey” discovering the solo masterpieces of the early eighteenth century with the violinist Alessandro Ciccolini and the harpsichordist Francis Baroni.
La theorbo di Franco Pavan and the voice of Esther Porters accompany the audience in a fascinating and emotional tale through the stories that form the backdrop to a series of arias and madrigals from the seventeenth century and their authors. The conclusion of the Review is dedicated to the mystical union of the voice and the organ in Italian church music of the Baroque era, with the soprano Anna Maria Bellocchio and the organist Gaetano Magarelli.
The real surprise of the 2021 program is certainly the very original recital by Pino De Vittorio with the piano of Francesco Caramiello dedicated to the wonderful repertoire of twentieth-century singer-songwriters, involving composers who we would not expect to be the protagonists of extremely refined melodies, from John Cage a poulenc.
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