How many petals of the sky and winged
Con particolare piacere segnaliamo un evento - unico nel suo genere - presentato per la prima volta a Bergamo nel marzo scorso e replicato con successo a Caravaggio due mesi dopo, che ha visto protagonista l'estro creativo del maestro bergamasco Alessandro Bottelli, al quale auguriamo nuovi e meritati successi!
COME TANTI E ALATI PETALI DI CIELO
Sacra fioritura in musica per soli, coro di voci bianche e strumenti
(ispirata alla Pala di S. Bernardino di Lorenzo Lotto – Bergamo, 1521)
Idea originale e libretto di Alessandro Bottelli
Musica di Giordano Bruno Ferri
Ferri, Bottelli, Trovesi
The Church of St. Bernardino Pignolo Bergamo houses for centuries one of the most extraordinary works conceived by Lorenzo Lotto during his stay on earth orobica. This is an altarpiece that depicts, in addition to the Madonna and Child with Saints Joseph, Bernardino da Siena, Giovanni Battista, Antonio Abate and five angels: four pledged to raise a royal green cloth and placed one foot the throne, the act of writing something on the page of a book. The background, beautiful, has a sky that has all the purity and intensity of things those for the first time.
enchanting beauty of its form and the amazing generosity of its colors, the painting seems to have frozen any hope of dialogue between the characters, defined by gestures and expressions that can weave webs of communication.
The idea of \u200b\u200ba composition concert proceeded on the masterpiece of the Venetian painter and from there take the moves to create something using the words and sounds as the preferred way to give voice to what the painting is only hinted at, restrained, was born out of these simple but fundamental observations.
In How many petals of the sky and winged you have to listen, along with distinctly instrumental songs, the dialogue between St. John the Baptist and St. Anthony (Duet), the St. Joseph's profound meditation on the meaning of his unique experience of man and husband (Air), the ecstasy of San Bernardino before the vision of Truth (Air recited), but also the story of the angel writer (Air recited), so different from his other brothers celestial flying around freely over the heads of these (Chorus) Baby Jesus or the words to Mary, and vice versa, in a continuous interweaving of sentences and thoughts, culminating in the grand final concert in which all the characters of the blade Lotto sing different texts simultaneously.
Inspired by the musical genre of the oratorio, the score of this "Sacred Music in bloom 'includes, in addition to seven solo voices (two voices, soprano, two tenors, baritone, bass) and a choir of voices, instruments from ancient connotation (recorder, lute, organ positive) along with other closer to the sound contemporary (saxophone), with a clear, blending tradition and modernity in an indissoluble.
The project is the result of a new collaboration between the poet and writer Alexander Bottelli, songwriter, composer and Giordano Bruno Ferri, whose multi-year agreement has already led to numerous poetic and musical works Two of them ( Pigeons Puccini, A cat all rich ) performed successfully in the past seasons of Music Youth .
It is a special was the presence, inside the orchestra, the famous jazz musician Gianluigi Trovesi Bergamo, engaged both as an improviser that a performer.
The direction was headed by Stefano Montanari, concertmaster of the 'Byzantine Academy', and above all excellent interpreter of baroque repertoire, which in January this year he directed L'elisir love by Gaetano Donizetti in a concert tour in more theaters in Japan.
Sabina Belperio and Gloria Radaelli were the solo voices, with soprano Veronika Kralove, contents and Massimiliano Di Livio Scarpellini Up, baritone Piermarco ViƱas, low Gabriele Sagona.
Other vocal interpreters, a role was the "Schola Cantorum" The Magic Flute "prepared and conducted by Elisa Fumagalli, teacher of choral singing for treble voices at the Institute for Advanced Studies Musical 'Gaestano Donizetti "in Bergamo. Body Positive, Giovanni Togni.