Voice, Vocality and Singing

Concert Season

We continue the programme, Voce, vocalità e canto, the musical season curated by Antonio Caggiano, which in 2024 presents an artistic itinerary of eight concerts focused on the voice and singing, in the spaces of the Tenuta Dello Scompiglio.

“The chosen path”, specifies Caggiano, “does not pretend to exhaust such a vast and varied theme, but aims to explore it through multiple facets; the voice, the sound-verse up to the word, monody and polyphony, the song of nature, voices in popular culture, and instrumental singing.”

Following the first part of musical events presented from March to June 2024, the season continues with four concerts, scheduled from September to December.

It begins on 28^th September with the UT Insieme Vocale-Consonante concert which achieved international popularity after winning the European Grand Prix for Choral Music in 2016 in Varna, Bulgaria. The ensemble presents a promenade concert in different places at Dello Scompiglio, titled Senso, non senso, doppio senso (Sense, Nonsense, Double Entendre): a programme that, through the interpretation of the word, leads the audience to savour the relationship between voice and text, between thought and illusion, between illusion and truth.

The second appointment features the duo Caggiano-Sorrentino and the young string quartet, Sincronie, with the concert Many have no speech (title borrowed from a beautiful album by Michael Mantler), which focuses on the voice of the marginalised and those who are not able to carve out their own space within society, as in the case of the piece by Gavin Bryars, in which we hear the heart breaking singing of a homeless person throughout the entire composition, or the piece by Nicola Sani, freely inspired by a canvas by Mark Rothko, an American painter who took his own life because of his depression, but also, and above all to “be out of the way”.                       

The season continues with Recital for Cathy, a tribute by Alda Caiello to Cathy Berberian, which picks up the title of the piece dedicated by Luciano Berio to the great vocalist. Inspired by her illustrious colleague, Caiello creates a place where the two great artists meet and tell their stories.

The season ends with the show, Voci svelate (Voices Revealed), a fascinating dialogue between the voice of Ljuba Bergamelli and the percussion of Ars Ludi, which together create a path that begins with Scelsi’s Canti del Capricorno, passes though the myth of Psychopompos by Battistelli and arrives at the exaltation of nature with Rain Tree by Toru Takemitsu and Elegy by Guo Wen Jing.

Antonio Caggiano
artistic director of Dello Scompiglio musical events

concert

7 December 2024
at 19.30

Ljuba Bergamelli / Ars Ludi

Voci svelate

photo: Leonardo Puccini