Program

This program was born from the collaboration between the Festival and the Orchestra of the University of Pisa: 4 pieces extracted from the Alamanno Musical Fund will per performed for the first time in modern times.

One of the most famous Italian interpreters of early music. From his recent award-winning CD of the 6 Cello Suites for the Arcana label, Valli plays the N.5 BWV 1012 for 5-string cello.

An imaginary day entirely dedicated to Bach. AuserMusici combines in this program three exemplary pieces of Johann Sebastian's perfect mastery of the different styles and forms of the time: a profane Cantata (Non sa che sia dolore), the Brandenburg Concerto n.3 for strings only and Basso Continuo, and the Orchestral Suite n.2. A party made of great music!

Keyboards and plucked instruments between improvisation and new musical signs in 14th and 15th century in Italy and Middle Europe

A very large part of Vivaldi's opus remained buried for centuries in various libraries of aristocratic families. This concert-reading traces the rediscovery of these texts and the consequent Vivaldi Renaissance.

A program which is entirely dedicated to the guitar repertoire of the early 19th century, where the mild sound of the guitar evokes the nascent impulses of Romanticism

In listening to music, as indeed in any artistic experience, the alternation between repetition and the pleasure of novelty are fundamental elements to arise the interest of the public. This is the intention of Follie, Ciaccone e altri Affetti proposed this evening.

From Tuscany to Rome and Veneto, a journey into the madrigal repertoire of the 16th century through pages by composers such as Vincenzo Galilei, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Claudio Monteverdi.

Concerto Grosso, or the Corellian "verb": a new way of playing in the orchestra alternating solos and tuttis invented by Arcangelo Corelli and exported to England by his "evangelists" Barsanti and Geminiani, which was masterfully interpreted by the most Italian of the German composers, Georg Friedrich Handel.