The program features the signature of a giant of Baroque music such as Johann Sebastian Bach, a great 20th-century composer like Samuel Barber, and a young Friulian composer, Sebastiano Burelli.
A “triple B” with which Intende Voci Ensemble spans from the Baroque to the 20th century to Contemporary music, touching three cities: June 30 in Trento (Regional Festival of Sacred Music), November 9 in Milan (Novantica), and November 10 in Pordenone (International Festival of Sacred Music).
THE PROGRAM
The concert opens with “Ascolta Maria,” a composition for soloists and SATB choir a cappella by Sebastiano Burelli.
This is followed by three motets by J.S. Bach: “Fürchte dich nicht” (BWV 228), “Komm, Jesu, Komm” (BWV 229), and “Lobet den Herrn” (BWV 230) performed with an octet with real parts and continuo.
Finally, the triptych by Samuel Barber, “Reincarnations,” for a cappella choir. After praying to the Virgin Mary and, through Bach’s wonderful pages, asking for help, finding comfort, and praising the mercy of the good Lord, with Barber, we return to real life, among everyday heroes whom the composer remembers by setting to music the splendid poems of James Stephens. There is Mary Hines to be remembered for her beauty that brought serenity and joy, the nicknamed “Grandfather Anthony,” hanged in the early 1800s on a charge of attempted murder never proven, just because he was an activist fighting for the rights of oppressed farmers. And finally, the marvelous sensation of well-being that the sharing of silence, night, and stars brings to two lovers who find themselves in their blessed dream, in their intact world of beauty in a “reincarnation” beyond time and space. Where the spiritual and the earthly often meet, without the need to define or explain. Simply, in peace.
