Performer: L'Arpeggiata| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Wednesday 12-Jun-13 08:00pm |
 Hagia Eirene Museum, IstanbulChristina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata Istanbul Music Festival |
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| Hagia Eirene Museum, Istanbul, Cankurtaran Mh, Istanbul 34122, Turkey Wednesday 12-Jun-13 08:00pm Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata L’Arpeggiata returns to Hagia Eirene after their captivating performance at the festival last year. Exploring fresh musical grounds at each and every concert, this time the ensemble will take the audience on a voyage across the Mediterranean basin with traditional tunes from its coasts - and featuring a majestic figure from the world of fados: Mísia.The programme will feature traditional songs from the coasts of Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Turkey.Tickets 120, 90, 60 tl - student 30 tl - balcony 180 tl. | ||
| Sunday 7-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Château de Versailles: Chapelle Royale, Paris Via Crucis Versailles Festival |
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| Château de Versailles: Chapelle Royale, Paris, Place d'Armes, 78000 Versailles, 78000 Paris, France Sunday 7-Jul-13 07:00pm Via Crucis Over the past decade, the Austrian harpist Christina Pluhar has imposed a musical style forged from a range of experiences: period instruments with their warm timbre backing singers drawn from all the Latin world who produce melodic emotions and styles inspired by popular and ancestral traditions. This melting-pot of sonorities and temperaments, skilfully prepared and guided by Christina Pluhar, gives an astonishingly timeless result that echoes the deepest emotions expressed through the centuries, reviving the simplest and most direct piety, the rhythms of the popular dances that shaped the music of all the Mediterranean, and always the "meaning" of music, which celebrates each passion of our lives, each stage of humanity. The public has fallen under the spell of these swaying rhythms that enliven the most moving lamentations and the sheer perfection of the Arpeggiata ensemble, whose performances give an impression of improvisation and who regularly sing with the greatest artistes such as Philippe Jaroussky. Christina Pluhar has devised the Via Crucis programme to put into perspective works evoking the Passion of Christ from the 17th century seen through the prism of the living Italian and Corsican musical tradition. Holy Week is still celebrated with fervour in the Western Mediterranean, where the tradition of these ceremonies has been kept very much alive in Corsica, Sicily and all southern Italy. The Via Crucis, the Way of the Cross, which gives its name to the programme, is a traditional celebration in the form of a procession and hymns. The typically spectacular and poignant expression of redemptive suffering with which it is imbued is strikingly evoked in the intricate works of the first successors of Monteverdi that are presented here. The liturgical pieces from Italy in the years 1630-1650 which fervently celebrate the Passion are characterised by an almost schizophrenic hesitation between sorrow and exultation: between the Sorrow of the Virgin at the foot of the Cross and the Joy of the Resurrection so near, between the suffering of Christ on the cross and the exultation in the Revelation that has been accomplished. This celebration of redemptive suffering, of the meaning of pathos, and of edification through pain, are perfect illustrations of baroque religiosity. Via Crucis invites us to follow the stages of the Passion of Christ: we will hear Mary weeping and Jesus caught up in his agony, but we will also hear the angels in flight… The link-up between the works of the baroque period and those of the Italian and Corsican musical tradition crystallises the emotional impact of this commemorative ceremony celebrated by the Arpeggiata ensemble, with the contrasting voices of Raquel Andueza and Vincenzo Capezzuto, and the Corsican Barbara Furtuna vocal quartet. Coming to us from a still lively tradition, these pieces of music draw us into the rich heritage of popular piety which enchants us like the finding of a long-lost treasure. Image credit: © Agathe Poupeney | ||
