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Banchetto Musicale 2012

The organizers of the annual early music festival Banchetto musicale that commences on September 9, 2012 are inviting their loyal audiences to nine concerts. With autumn on Vilnius’ doorstep, fans of early – medieval, Renaissance, Baroque – music will be able to enjoy various programmes that will satisfy the tastes of even the most refined music gourmands. Famous collectives from abroad shall entice us on journeys through Europe’s ancient lands while programmes reflecting our country’s heritage shall also be featured.

The festival shall start off with the European Union Baroque Orchestra – a special collective that rounds up a selection of Europe’s gifted young musicians each year. Their Baroque Splash! orchestral performance is sure to delight both regular music fans and melomaniacs in search of the most subtle Baroque nuances. The French ensemble Ligeriana shall transport us to the Middle Ages when troubadours, Minnesingers and trouvers would recite and sing their most inspired lines to their loves. The young Lithuanian ensemble Reversio shall surprise listeners with their novel combination of Renaissance and Baroque music performed on the birbynė, a traditional Lithuanian wood-wind instrument. A programme of poetic Baroque ayres shall be performed by the Berlin duet – soprano Maria Skiba and lute-player Frank Pschichholz, while the cinematic release Voluptas dolendi. I gesti del Caravaggio shall give audiences a broader picture of Baroque surroundings through movement, photography and harp music presenting the works of the famous Italian Baroque painter, Caravaggio. In order to find out where the well known Italian dance, the tarantella, comes from, audiences shall have to come to the special concert by the famous Italian actor and performer Pino de Vittorio, who shall present traditional music from his native Southern Italy. The festival’s exclusive guests – the Spanish ensemble Le Tendre Amour – will be staging the 18th-century opera Los Elementos which features everything that is typically Spanish – a bar, flamenco, castanets, tapas, wine, a mock bull-fight, and of course, Spanish music. And this year there are two festival programmes dedicated to the cultural heritage of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Brevis Choir and Consort is inviting audiences to the royal chapel of Sigismund Vasa for vespers, while the festival’s post scriptum shall recall the Vilnius wedding of Catherine Jagiellon and John Vasa – the progenitors of the Vasa Dynasty in Lithuania.

Vilnius’ churches and other chamber spaces are to be flooded with the sounds of early music this September. Why not launch into autumn surrounded by this veritable musical feast!

 

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