conductor Lorenzo Donati
music by Ligeti / Erikson, Penderecki, Donati, Pärt, Clausetti, Pizzetti, di Lasso, Petrassi, Banchieri
programmE
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PART ONE
György Ligeti / Gunnar Erikson
Ligeti improvvisation (improvvisazione su Lux aeterna)
Krzysztof Penderecki
Benedicamus per coro maschile
Lorenzo Donati
Ponetemente per coro femminile
Arvo Pärt
Magnificat
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PART TWO
Pietro Clausetti
L’ombra dei boschi d’Aser
Saltavan ninfe
Ildebrando Pizzetti
Cade la sera
Orlando di Lasso
Oh che bon Echo
Goffredo Petrassi
estratti da Nonsense
N. 1 C'era una signorina
N. 3 C'era un vecchio di Rovigo
N. 5 C'era una vecchia di Polla
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PART THREE
Adriano Banchieri
estratti dal Festino per il Giovedì Grasso avanti cena
Il moderno diletto tutti invita
Mascherata di villanelle
Zia Bernardina racconta una novella
Capricciata e Contrappunto alla mente
Gioco del conte
Gli festinanti
Vinata de brindisi
Il diletto moderno licenza
sopranos
Maria Chiara Ardolino
Ambra Luciani
Sara Mazzanti
Asia Peaquin
Anita Sisino
mezzosopranos
Chiara Casiraghi
Serena Marino
tenors
Santi Castellano
Luigi Rossi
Federico Viola
basses
Lorenzo Chiacchiera
Giovanni Florian
Mathieu Merlet
Daniele Merlino
direttore Lorenzo Donati
Senso, non senso, doppio senso is a promenade concert dedicated to the themes of the sacred, nature and food. The programme, divided into three parts, 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 theme of the relationship between sound, word, meaning and musical interpretation begins in the relationship between vibration and the sense of the sacred. Spirituality, contact with the beyond through sound and word, and encounter with silence and fullness, are presented through works by contemporary authors. The use of improvisational techniques will offer the listener a new and personal relationship, as the ensemble will vary its configuration during the concert.
Part two is mainly dedicated to the historical Italian twentieth century. After the timbric suggestions of Pizzetti and Clausetti, mindful of the experience of the impressionists, the relationship with the text becomes amused and entertaining. Nonsense, a form that is not new, but widely used in the twentieth century, closes the second part of the concert with the compositional games of Petrassi.
The third part of the evening is dedicated to musical fun; the double entendre, the joke, musical games. The excerpts from Banchieri’s Festino, written for Venice’s Maundy Thursday, end a journey that starts from the meaning of the word linked to spirituality, and arrives at the word that winks at food and Eros, always with the plural reading typical of Renaissance works.
Lorenzo Donati
UT - Born in 2014, UT Insieme Vocale-Consonante is a “modular” vocal group that ranges from the madrigal ensemble to the chamber choir. The singers, who come from various parts of Italy, all have great vocal and musical experience. Led by Lorenzo Donati, the ensemble offers thematic projects of ancient and contemporary music. UT has
achieved worldwide fame by winning the European Grand Prix for Choral Music in 2016 in Varna, in Bulgaria. The competition is the most important choral competition in the world and UT is the only choir in the Mediterranean to have won this prestigious award.
Lorenzo Donati - Composer, conductor and violinist, studied in Arezzo and Florence, subsequently perfecting his skills at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Accademia di Francia in Rome. As an artistic director and consultant, he collaborates and has collaborated with various national cultural institutions. He is currently a professor at the Conservatorio “B. Marcello” in Venezia and teaches at theSummer Academy of the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and the Accademia Corale Italian.