Music for the Spirit III - 2010 Edition Music for the Spirit is a festival of sacred music that aims at enhancing the sacred song in its own context, namely the Sacred Liturgy. The exhibition, which is now in its third edition - despite many difficulties of financial and organizational - is animated from year to year from local and foreign ensembles. This event was conceived in 2008 by Don Stephen Canon, now pastor at the Church of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Trieste, who comments:
"I still can not forget to voice my deep satisfaction - after a burning desire nurtured by time materialized, and so positively - to have these beautiful and timeless works in the context for which they were written: the Liturgy. It is here, in fact, they take a coloring, a beauty and a peculiar and unique significance. "
In order to captivate the attention of a wider public, the event also includes concert performances. Over the past two years Music for the Spirit has landed it in various places in northern Italy, including Venice, Aquileia, Ronchi dei Legionari, beef, always receiving a widely acclaimed by audiences and critics.
The participation of skilled musicians from the United Kingdom is made possible through the efforts of Gabriel Damiani, Italian musician resident at Oxford, who got to take care of communication between parties and provide for organization of events. Among the guests of the various seasons stand out some choirs in London and Oxford.
This year, Music for the Spirit is divided into three evenings to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary:
Saturday, August 14 - S. Sung Latin Mass / Church of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary, Trieste
Sunday, August 15 - Song of the Vespers and Concert Spiritual / Church of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary, Trieste
Monday, August 16 - Spiritual Concert / Church of the Blessed Relief (" Old San Antonio), Trieste
For the third time in Italy, the chorus "Scores Vocal Ensemble" conducted by Maestro Oxford Thomas Primrose, with the participation of the organist Gabriele Damiani, we present some rarities that are worth listening to the finest connoisseurs.
During the Mass, Gregorian chant, in addition to their prescribed by Liber Usualis, will run the ordinary of the Mass "Bell'amfitrit'altera" Orlando di Lasso - a masterpiece of 500, and sacred motets and G. Parsons Gabrieli.
Assumption Vespers instead include the version of the psalms to music by From the imposing Victoria Magnificat by Michael Praetorius.
The concerts on Sunday and Monday ideally follow a thread of time, prime time has the Renaissance and Baroque periods, while the second ranges from Romanticism to contemporary authors.
Scores Vocal Ensemble Scores The Vocal Ensemble was founded in 2006 at Oxford where he made his official debut in the Chorus Christ Church Cathedral with music by Gesualdo and Poulenc. His repertoire, then as now, runs on four centuries of music and also includes the Gregorian chant and the Anglican tradition. The group, initially as a "chorus of students," is now made up almost entirely of professional musicians, most of whom live in London and sings regularly in the most prestigious complexes. Despite its short history, the choir has to its credit numerous concerts in throughout England, in the last three years, the choir was involved in several musical events in Trieste, Venice, Aquileia, Ronchi and in meat, getting anywhere is a consensus in the public and critics.
The choir is composed of:
Sopranos: Leomar Dyke, Sophie Jones, Rebecca Lea, Taya Smith
Contralti: Paul Burke (countertenor), Claire Eadington, Sarah Hayes, James Imam (countertenor)
Tenors: Will Edwards, William Petter, Oliver Winstone
Bass: Nick Ashby, Stefan Berkieta, Oliver Hayes, Basil McDonald
Thomas Primrose, Director The group is led by Thomas Primrose, a graduate in music at Oxford University, where he already was noted as a director of various student and amateur choirs. He studied composition with Robert Saxton and organ with David Titterington. He is currently on the staff of Norwich Cathedral Music. Parallel to adjust to the Cathedral, which is to play the organ, choir singing and directing, Tom has planned numerous concerts as organist and director throughout the UK. Rated accompanist, he has collaborated with renowned singers throughout the United Kingdom. He is the founder, with tenor Ben Johnson, the Southrepps Classical Music Festival, a collection of Lieder and chamber music events which closes with a gala concert attended by many opera singers of international fame.
Gabriele Damiani, organist assistant organist at Westminster Cathedral from 2002 to 2003, was the first and so far the only Italian to hold this role in the history of the cathedral in London. Already organist at the Chapel Royal Chelsea, Gabriel won the European title of Bachelor of Music in London at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he studied organ, piano, harpsichord, orchestration, conducting and improvisation. He obtained a Diploma with honors from the Royal College of Organists (ARCO) Doris Wookey winning the prize for organ composition.
He has about two hundred concerts in Europe and the United States as soloist, conductor, accompanist and continuo in chamber music. Maestro Owen Rees, Fellow in Music and Music Director of Queen's College, Oxford, wrote: "Gabriele Damiani has a way of playing smart and exciting, it expresses in style and maturity through programs imaginative and well balanced."
resident in Great Britain Since 1998, Gabriel worked for seven years at St Edward's School in Oxford, where Professor of Organ, Chapel Organist and Director of the Chamber Orchestra. accompanist for examinations of the Associated Board Royal School of Music, is also working with the choirs Schola Cantorum, and numerous other choirs and orchestras. Gabriele Damiani is the official accompanist of the choir Scores and the organizer of numerous tours of the complex.
Program
Sunday, August 15, 2010 20.45 Civic BV
Chapel of the Rosary
"Renaissance and Baroque"
John Sheppard - haec Dies
Robert Parsons - Ave Maria
Giovanni Gabrieli - Beata es Virgo
Giovanni Gabrieli Jubilate Deo - for 8 voices (body only)
Thomas Tallis - Miserere our
Henry Purcell - Hear my prayer ("Hear my prayer")
Alonso Lobo - Versa est in luctum
William Byrd - Nunc Dimittis
Michael Praetorius - Magnificat
(chorus alternating with verses organ - Music J. Pachelbel)
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Monday, August 16, 2010 15 hours 19
Church of the Blessed Virgin of Succour
"From Romanticism to the present day"
Henry Balfour Gardiner-An Evening Hymn ("Ode to the Vespers ")
Choir and organ
Johannes Brahms Geistliches Lied (" Music for the Spirit ")
Choir and organ
by Denis Bedard Six Paraphrases grégoriennes:
i) Improvisation on "Salve Regina"
ii) Communion on "Lauda Sion"
Body only
Francis Poulenc Salve Regina
Pierre Villette Hymne à la Vierge
Benjamin Britten's Hymn to the Virgin
Alfred Hollins Scherzo : A song of sunshine ("The Song of the Sun") only
Organ John Rutter The Lord bless you and keep you
("The Lord bless you and keep you")
choir and organ
Ralph Vaughan Williams Antiphon - Let All The World
(Antiphon - "People all sing to the Lord")
choir and organ