VINCENZO GALILEI CHOIR OPENS THE CORSANICO FESTIVAL FOR 2018
In the evocative artistic setting of Corsanico’s Pieve di S. Michele Arcangelo the Corsanico 2018 festival opens with the prestigious patronage of the Senate, of the Tuscany Region, Province of Lucca and Comune di Massarosa.
It’s the 37th year of the International Classical Music Festival organized by the Cultural Association “Friends of the Vincenzo Colonna Organ of Corsanico” with Graziano Barsotti as artistic director.
There are ten themed concerts, five in July and five in August, which will all include the historical organ now recognized throughout the world. The intrument is a masterpiece of Venetian organ art built in 1602 by Vincenzo Colonna.
The opening of the festival, on Friday 6 July, will feature Pisa’s Vincenzo Galilei choir (from the Scuola Normale Superiore) and the organist Pietro Consoloni, conducted by Gabriele Micheli, with “Psalms in music from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century”.
All concerts start at 9.15pm
Admission €. 10,00
Info: cell. 328 5391833 http://www.corsanicomusica.it, grazianobarsotti@libero.it
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE
Friday, July 13, features Sara Galanti (violin) and Antonio Galanti (organ) with a program of instrumental European music from the eighteenth century.
‘BOCCHERINI’ HORN ENSEMBLE
The horn ensemble of Lucca’s Boccherini Orchestra performs on Tuesday 17 July in a repertoire ranging from the baroque to the nineteenth century, entitled “Discovering the Horn” (the evening is free admission).
RECITAL BY GUITARIST FLAVIO CUCCHI
Saturday, July 21, the well-known guitarist Flavio Cucchi will present “From Vivaldi to Chick Corea”.
HOMAGE TO ANTONIO BAZZINI
Lina Uinskyte (violin) and Marco Ruggeri (organ) perform a seventeenth to nineteenth-century repertoire as “Homage to the composer Antonio Bazzini in the bicentenary of his birth”, on Friday 27 July.
CONCERT IN MEMORY OF DAVID BELLUGI
Friday, August 3, Ivano Battiston, accordion, Luca Magni, flute and Mariella Mochi, organ, will commemorate, in a classic program, the famous flautist David Bellugi who often played at Corsanico and who died recently.
CONCERT FOR ORGAN AND BAROQUE TRUMPETS
Friday, August 10th, an ensemble of baroque trumpets and organ, with Andrea Macinanti on the organ, will perform a brilliant repertoire, “The Palatine Concert”, recalling the music of European royal courts.
GRAND OPERATIC GALA
Wednesday, August 15 will be the traditional “Gran Galà Lirico” with Francesca Maionchi-soprano, Laura Masini-mezzo-soprano, Nicola Simone Mugnaini-tenor, Graziano Polidori-bass, and Nadia Lencioni, piano. The program includes music by Mascagni, Puccini, Verdi, Rossini and Chopin.
VIVALDI EVENING
Saturday, August 18th, there’s a Vivaldi evening: “Serata Vivaldi” with the Ensemble Bisentium playing a basoon concerto and The Four Seasons, with Federico Lodovichi, bassoon and Daniele Iannaccone, violin.
BACH EVENING
On Saturday 25th August an evening of Bach, “Serata Bach” (concertos by J. S. Bach), will conclude the Corsanico Festival 2018, with the Greve in Chianti Chamber Orchestra, with Cristiano Rossi as conductor. solo violins: Cristiano Rossi, Luca Rinaldi and Agnese Balestracci.