The star Organ concert in Florence The international stars in concert organ
in Florence, from March to December 2011
Wednesday
Music Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze
6th edition, 14 concerts with free admission, by reservation
Auditorium Ente Cassa di Risparmio - via Folco Portinari - Florence
opening Wednesday, March 23 - 21 hours
TINI Mathot & Ton Koopman
Gustav Leonhardt and Ton Koopman, Wolfgang Gerhard Gnann and Rübsam .. . The greatest organ virtuoso of the art back to the stage of the Wednesday Music Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze. Fourteen events scheduled from March to December in the Auditorium of The Street Portinari, all with free admission (reservation required, subject to availability of seats available) for a survey that the banking institution organized in the first person - also pushed by the passion of its director general, Antonio Gherdovich lawyer, great lover of the genre - with the declared intention of raising the cultural attractions of the city.
Under the leadership of artistic director Giuseppe Lanzetta, Wednesday the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, for six years, offer the opportunity to listen to the founders of the European traditions of interpretation, and this year, also a U.S. representative. A gift to Florence, its inhabitants and its visitors.
The objectives of Music Wednesday, in fact, closer to the public at large repertoire of sacred music, baroque and secular, through a program of altissimo livello fruibile a tutti.
Ricca di storia la cornice della rassegna, l’Auditorium dell’Ente Cassa di Risparmio ricavato da una sala seicentesca dell’Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, ed attrezzato con un imponente organo progettato da Clemente Terni. Strumento che racchiude sia la tradizione organaria sia quella spagnola, realizzato negli anni ’70 dalla nota fabbrica Tamburini di Crema su commissione dell’Ente.
L’appuntamento inaugurale di mercoledì 23 marzo vede il gradito ritorno del clavicembalista, organista e direttore d'orchestra olandese Ton Koopman, stavolta affiancato dalla moglie Tini Mathot: concerto a quattro mani incentrato su Carlton, Tomkins, Sweelinck, Guami, Handel, Buxtehude, Mozart and Bach.
Among the guests expected in the coming weeks, Gustav Leonhardt (September 20), Wolfgang Rübsam (September 28), Bernhard Gfrerer (April 20), Andres Uibo (September 14), Gerhard Gnann (October 19), Arnau Reynes (October 26 ), Przemyslaw Kapitula (November 16), Esteban Elizondo Iriarte (15 June) ...
There are representatives of the Italian school, such as Gianfranco Nicoletti (May 11) and Sergio Militello (May 25) and unusual combinations such as those between the saxophonist Gaetano Di Bacco organist Italo Di Cioccio (April 6), including the organist Olympian Medori and flutist Julie Matteucci (November 30), and between Chamber Orchestra conducted by Giuseppe Lanzetta Florentine organist Francesco Filidei (December 14).
As mentioned, admission to concerts is free, subject to availability of seats available by reservation (tel. 055.5384012 - 055.5384348 or email federica.checchi entecarifirenze.it @ - @ emanuele.barletti entecarifirenze.it).
PROGRAMS AND GUESTS OF MUSIC WEDNESDAY
Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze
Since 2011 the bill Wednesday Music Ente Cassa di Risparmio three names stand out really impressive in concert survey: Ton Koopman, Gustav Leonhardt, Wolfgang Rübsam. The first two Dutch già stati ospiti del Festival, si esibiranno in altra veste rispetto ai precedenti concerti: Ton Koopman sarà mercoledì 23 marzo in duo insieme alla moglie Tini Mathot, con un programma che spazia dal Cinquecento a Mozart, mentre Gustav Leonhardt (protagonista di un memorabile concerto al cembalo storico Fleischer, gentilmente concesso dal Museo Stibbert), si esibirà martedì 20 settembre con un programma interamente dedicato all’organo. Wolfgang Rübsam, grandissimo e raro interprete di nazionalità tedesco-americana, suonerà a Firenze per la prima volta, mercoledì 28 settembre, con un impegnativo programma interamente dedicato a J.S. Bach.
Molti altri organisti stranieri sono presenti nel cartellone: Wednesday, September 14, for the first time in Florence, the greatest organist and composer of Estonia, Andras Uibo, professor at the Estonian Academy of Music, Artistic Director of the International Festival of Tallinn and heritage of historic organs: in addition to performing its most famous composition for organ, "Apocalypsis-Symphony", will play music by Bach and Buxtehude. Wednesday, April 20
the Salzburg Gfrerer Bernard, professor of organ at the Conservatoire and organist of the famous Franziskanerkirche of his city, with a splendid program dedicated to the Opera Omnia for organ by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
To fully exploit the features of Hispanic organ built by Clemente Terni for the Auditorium Ente Cassa, two organists Iberian nationalities: Wednesday, June 15 Basque Esteban Elizondo Iriarte, always engaged in research and international dissemination of the exceptional organ heritage that exists in the Basque Country and Navarre, through musicological publications, editions of scores and has recorded over twenty CDs especially with the German label AEOLUS. Wednesday, October 26 the Mallorcan Arnaut Reynes, a pupil of the famous concert at the Conservatory of Barcelona Montserrat Torrent, organist at the Basilica of San Francesco in Palma de Mallorca, professor at the University of the Balearic Islands where he worked published research work on many historical organs of the archipelago.
The Polish organist Przemyslaw Kapitula is dell'Arcicattedrale S. John in Warsaw and president of the Foundation's Festival of Sacred Music: Its relevance concert sees him very busy in enhancing the work of important organizations such as Polish Nowowiejski Feliks (1877-1946) and Surzynski Mieczyslaw (1866-1924) which has CD recorded in the Opera Omnia. It will be in concert in Florence Wednesday, November 26.
In collaboration with the Association for the restoration and enhancement of historic organs in the Town of Cortona, the organist Gerhard Gnann, Professor of Organ e Professore Titolare della cattedra di "Musica Sacra" all'Università "Johannes Gutenberg" di Mainz eseguirà mercoledì 19 ottobre un ricco programma incentrato sulla letteratura per organo tra Italia, Spagna e Germania dal Cinquecento ai nostri giorni. Nel 2010 Gnann ha ricevuto il “Deutsche Schallplattenpreis” per un CD suonato sui preziosi strumenti antichi di Johann Nepomuk Holzhey (Sud della Germania) e nel 2010/11 è impegnato in un progetto, unico nel suo genere, per la registrazione dell’Opera Omnia di J.S. Bach sugli strumenti di J.A. Silbermann in Francia, con la casa discografiche AEOLUS.
Per quanto riguarda gli artisti italiani, da sottolineare il duo formato da Gaetano Di Bacco, uno dei più Active Italian saxophone inserted into the international concert scene, professor of saxophone at the Conservatory of Pescara, along with the organist Italo Di Ciocco, Professor of Organ and Composition at the Conservatory: Wednesday, April 6 with a program mainly centered on authors from nineteenth and twentieth centuries, entitled "Saxorgano between the sacred and the profane."
Then there is the young flutist Lucchese Giulia Matteucci, well-established performer, recently won a hearing at the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Malta, Wednesday, Nov. 30 in a duo with organist Medori Olympian, a veteran of "The Musical Wednesday" , with an original program that sees the two musicians involved, both the side and individually, in a repertoire ranging from the eighteenth century authors such as ME and J. Bossi Alain, which falls this year on the anniversary of the birth, up to G. Lanzetta, artistic director of this prestigious event.
Wednesday, May 11 concert organist and Sicilian Gianfranco Nicoletti, who in addition to running an important task of safeguarding and enhancement of old organs (such as honorary inspector in the Region of Sicily) this year he was appointed Director of the Conservatory "A. Corelli "in Messina, where he already taught organ and Gregorian Chant Practice.
The concert
Sergio Militello, director of the 'Diocesan Institute of Sacred Music "of the Archdiocese of Florence, the" Cappella Musicale di S. Maria del Fiore, owner of the monumental organ Organist V. Mascioni of the Cathedral of Florence and member of the Council of the ulna of the CEI (Italian Episcopal Conference) in Rome, Wednesday, May 25 will perform a program entitled "Changes", with the final improvised on the themes proposed by the public.
The sixth edition of the Wednesday Music Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze will end Wednesday, December 14: a side of the Chamber Orchestra conducted by Giuseppe Fiorentina Lanzetta, Francesco Filidei young organist-composer training Italo-French, a former pupil of Jean Guillou and Salvatore Sciarrino and acclaimed guest in the previous edition: will compete in the challenging Concerto in A minor Op 100 for organ and orchestra by Marco Enrico Bossi , which fulfills the one hundred and fifty years after the birth.
Program concerts
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 21
Opening concert
TINI Mathot & Ton Koopman, organ (Netherlands)
Music by N. Carlton, T. Tomkins, JP Sweelinck,
G. Guam, GF Handel, D. Buxtehude, WA Mozart, JS Bach
Mercoledì 6 aprile 2011 ore 21
GAETANO DI BACCO, sassofono sopra e alto (Italia)
ITALO DI CIOCCIO, organo (Italia)
“Saxorgano tra sacro e profano”
Musiche di: A. Marcello, A. Lamproye, I. Di Cioccio,
F. De La Tombelle, G. de Lioncourt, D. Bedard
Mercoledì 20 aprile 2011 ore 21
BERNHARD GFRERER, organo (Austria)
Opera Omnia per organo di W.A. Mozart
Mercoledì 11 maggio 2011 ore 21
GIANFRANCO NICOLETTI, organo (Italia)
Musiche di G. Morandi, V. Petrali, ME Bossi, F.
Mendelssohn B., CJ Grey, C. Saint-Saëns, PA Yon rhapsody
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 21
Sergio Militello, organ music by
Eckelt JV, A Vivaldi, GF Handel, S. Militello
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 21
Esteban Elizondo Iriarte, organ (Spain)
"The influence of English-Italian organ music in"
Music by: A. de Cabezón, F. Correa de Arauxo,
A. de Sola, JB Cabanilles, D. Zipoli, Anonymous (s. XVIII),
J. M ª Beobide, T. de Elduayen, E. Torres, T. Garbizu
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 21
Uibo ANDRES, organ (Estonia)
Music by D. Buxtehude, A. Uibo, JS Bach
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 21
Gustav Leonhardt, organ (Netherlands)
Music by FC de Arauxo, SA de Herrera, G. Frescobaldi,
Anonymous Dutch (XVII), A. van den Kerckhoven, J.
Pachelbel, G. Böhm, JCF Fischer, J. Krieger
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 21
WOLFGANG RÜBSAM, organ (USA-Germany)
Music by JS Bach
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 21
Gerhard Gnann, organ (Germany)
In collaboration with the Association for the restoration and enhancement of historic organs
the City of Cortona
"Music for organ between Spain, Italy and Germany "
Music by P. de Araujo, FC de Arrauxo, S. Duron,
V. Petrali, G. Morandi, JS Bach, G. Bovet, A. Vivaldi / JS Bach
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 21
Arnau Reynes, organ (Spain)
Music by JS Bach, F. Mendelssohn B., C. Franck, A.
Guilmant, A. Martorell, C. Saint-Saëns, M. Dupre, Widor Ch M ª
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 21
Przemyslaw Kapitula, organ (Poland)
Music by J. Pachelbel, S. M. Scheidt Surzynski, JS Bach
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 21
Giuliano Matteucci, flute (Italy)
OLIMPIO Medora, organ (Italy) Music by A.
Vivaldi, GF Händel, G. Ph. Telemann, ME Bossi, G. Lanzetta, J. Alain
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 21
Closing Concert of the sixth edition
ORCHESTRA DA CAMERA FIORENTINA (Director Giuseppe Lanzetta)
FRANCESCO Filidea body (Italia)
Musiche di W. A. Mozart, G. Rossini, M. E. Bossi
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