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Activities of the year 2023

Publication of the 12th CD

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Mass of Saint Narcissus.
Music from Josep Pons (Girona 1770 - València 1818).



Friday 22n december 2023.
Basílica of Sant Feliu
At 19 hours (7 in the evening)

VESPRES D'ARNADÍ
Plays from Corelli, A. Scarlatti, Händel, Geminiani
Conductor: Dani Espasa

Entry price: 15 €
Ticket sale at www.entrapolis.com and at the Empúries Bookstore.
Organization: Música Antiga de Girona

VESPRES D'ARNADÍ is a baroque orchestra created in 2005 by Dani Espasa and Pere Saragossa to offer versions full of emotion, freshness and spontaneity, using historical instruments and criteria. With an intense concert activity, the ensemble performs in important halls and festivals in Europe such as Peralada, Barcelona, Seville, Santander, Madrid, London, Halle, Prague and Ostrava, among others.

The program offers Christmas works from the Italian and English Baroque, “concerti grossi” written for chamber orchestra without vocal performances.

  A. Corelli (1653-1713) born in central Italy, is one of the key figures of the Italian Baroque who influenced the rest of the European Baroque due to the perfection of his dialogues between various instruments, the concerti grossi, spread throughout Europe thanks to the new sheet music printers. His music provides a new musical language to better express the new cultural values spread in Italy with the triumph of the Counter-Reformation. He seeks in his works an instrumental, rhythmic and harmonic balance of subtle contrasts that make up a refined and majestic style at the same time, while using a clear and melodious polyphony that followed the musical models of the Italian church of the time. This is how he achieved instrumental works that are easy to listen to, easy to follow and still very attractive today, three hundred years after they were first released.

  A. Scarlatti (1660-1725) was a contemporary of Corelli but of Neapolitan culture, typical of a much more polarized society than the Roman one and in which music had a different value. He brought new drama to his compositions and innovated in several areas of opera music mainly. His technique of developing melodic motifs made a fortune He adopted Corelli's concertino-ripieno form for several instrumental works

  G. F. Händel (1685-1759) belongs to the generation after Corelli and to cultures, Germanic first and English later, quite different from Italian. During his stay in Rome he was dazzled by Corelli's invention of the "concerto grosso. which he adapted for the English audience. With a great capacity for work and a very remarkable assimilation of the various styles he knew, he was one of the first musical entrepreneurs and with his operas he had to please a bourgeois audience that paid to see them. His fusion of Italian melody and Germanic harmony allowed him to compose some works that became the most popular everywhere.

  F. Geminiani (1687 1762) was a virtuoso violinist and Italian composer who emigrated to England where he composed much of his work in the late Baroque period. He is considered an innovator in modulation and harmony.


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Monday 18th december 2023
Telenotícies comarques en TV3
Minute 26:25 of the link by clicking on the image
                                                                                  



Sunday 17th december 2023.
Mercè's Auditorium. Girona.
At 19 hours (7 in the evening).
An hour before the concert (18 hours) there will be an explanatory talk.

Música dels convents gironins (Music of the Girona convents)
Plays from Soler, Gaz, Gaudí, Arquimbau and other anonymous people from Girona.
Conductor: Marc Díaz

Entry price: 15 €
Ticket sale at www.entrapolis.com and at the Empúries Bookstore.
Organization: Música Antiga de Girona

The concert presented by Música Antiga de Girona is a collection of some of the scores of Girona convents from the 17th and 18th centuries that come from the cathedral archive, where part of the music of the 13 convents in the city is preserved. The present concert includes scores in chamber music format, with four voices - two sopranos, contralto and tenor, but no bass - and the continuo made with positive organ, cello and lute. This music is all vocal, as the instrumental has been lost, and was composed by the capella masters of the time who signed, or did not, the scores depending on certain circumstances. The texts are all in Latin or Spanish, and from 1770 the first compositions in Catalan began to recover. The topics discussed are very diverse, from the celebration of the patron saint of a convent to the entry of novices into some female convents of Girona's high society. The works that we present are all unpublished, they bring the appeal of a high quality and show the musical evolution of the city from the old style of the s. XVII (Francesc Soler) until the classicism of Domènec Arquimbau, at the end of the s. XVIII.


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