SECOND BAROQUE MUSIC FESTIVAL OPENED
FOLLOWING THE TRACES OF VENICE - SEGUENDO LE ORME DELLA SERENISSIMA
Numerous music lovers visited the Native Museum to attend the first of five concerts announced in the framework of the Second Baroque Music Festival entitled “Following the Traces of Venice – Seguendo le orme della Serenissima”, initiated and artistically managed by Professor Domagoj Terzić.
The first concert evening was featured by a Venetian ensemble called “I musici della Serenissima” comprising famous and recognized musicians specialized in Venetian music.
A program entitled “Istria and Venice between Renaissance and Baroque Periods” was performed by Monica Correnti (soprano), Stefano Casaccia (block flute), Claudio Gasparoni (viola), and Luca Ferrini (harpsichord), who put a special emphasis on authors who were born or who worked on the Istrian peninsula such as Francesco Spongia-Usper, Gabriele Spongia, Gabriello Puliti, Andrea Antico da Montona, and Filippo da Laurana.
As the foreword to the catalogue says, “the concert is dedicated to musical literature of old masters from the two Adriatic coasts, and presents a program that is relatively unknown to the wider audience.”
“Never have the musical connections between the two coasts been so fruitful as in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. It can be rightfully said that exactly at that time the traces of Serenissima were left in many countries, and the eastern Adriatic coast was one of the most important destinations of the agitated Venetian artistic laboratory,” reads, among other, the accompanying catalogue.
As for the members of the Venetian ensemble, they are specialized in performing old music, and their researcher's approach to studying the selected period is a combination of their commitment to perfecting their performing skills and respecting the stylistic guidelines of the period in question. The concert performance by the Venetian musicians, attended by a numerous audience, was enriched by an evening-long creative work by Lada Luketić, an academic painter inspired by the Baroque music to create a new painting.
This year's festival was once again organized by the Tourist Association and the European Cultural Center in cooperation with the Native Museum, Public Open College, and the City of Rovinj. It was sponsored by Hypo Leasing Kroatien and the Adris Group.
