Second Edition – 2021

“PEOPLE AND LANDS”

The Orizzonti Festival is in its second edition and returns to the public with many confirmations and some news. The original spirit remains unchanged: experimentation with original programs based on the transversality of repertoires and on the variety of staff. The strong theming of each concert continues together with the indispensable dynamic of perceptive immersion: starting from the pleasure of sound discovery to arrive at the set of possible reflections on the world we live in. Making the sound bearer of meanings starting from an intimate concert experience and an atmosphere of shared knowledge, an intimacy that finds its confirmation in the new location of the Cloister of St. Peter’s Basilica.

The Perugian Opificio Sonoro ensemble is confirmed first partner music of a series of internationally renowned soloists, as well as an accomplice in the redefinition of the concert formula. The small videos that introduced some songs in the past edition will still be produced, and different border areas between performative art and installation will be explored.

The Festival will then be enriched by an extra concert and the days will therefore become four. Furthermore, in order to guarantee a greater fusion with the Friends of Music billboard hosting Orizzonti, the festival will be divided into two events of two days each, we will have a Horizons Spring and a Orizzonti Autumn .

If in the first edition the main theme was “identity” and its own metamorphoses (between the passage of time and technological hybridizations), the contents of the second edition can be summarized by the title “People and Lands” . In a historical moment in which society is questioning itself on issues such as migration, citizenship and cultural belonging, the festival proposes a musical and sound reflection on the possible links that intertwine man with his land and culture.

It starts with the concert Folks from the East (People from the East), centered on the generation of Soviet composers after Shostakovich. Although for Schnittke, Gubajdulina, Ustvolskaya and Denisov the specter of imprisonment – due to their own music – was not as strong as in the case of their teacher, being inserted into the black list Soviet Union has undoubtedly marked their lives and consequently their artistic production. A very similar fate befell Arvo Pärt who left Estonia due to increasingly stringent tensions with Soviet officials. None of them will give up their own poetry, and each will decline this force of resistance in completely original ways, including mysticism, spirituality, religious sense or reinterpretations of tradition. The Sidera saxophone quartet will perform transcriptions of pieces by the Estonian composer intertwined with pages by the Russian masters for solo or duo instrument entrusted to Opificio Sonoro.

The second concert of Orizzonti Spring it takes us to the open air, that is, in contact with an ecology of listening that we could define outdoor . En plein air we meet Salvatore Sciarrino and a selection of passages from his Opera for Flute performed by Matteo Cesari (who recorded the complete): pages capable of redefining the voice of an instrument and of historical impact equal to Paganini’s Capricci for the violin. The space of the breath and the fast articulations lead us to Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonatas interpreted by Chiara Cattani. Here, the speed becomes a running and dance step and the dissonances / insect bites unfold in the melodic relaxation that recalls the opera aria.

We then intercept Sciarrino again with Airy (recently composed piece for ensemble here entrusted to Opificio Sonoro) and, reflecting on how the “naturalistic sound mimesis” of the composer from Palermo (but Umbrian by adoption) imposes the invention of a new way of playing the instruments, we arrive at those who have decided to take up the challenge by building new ones.

The evening then continues with the new generation: Mattia Parisse and his production of urban “new lutherie” in which wood crosses copper cables and remnants of consumer technology.

The Orizzonti Festival will return in November with two other events on the theme “People and Lands” – Folk Intimacy is En abîme – with new combinations of music from the past (Couperin, Chopin, Debussy and Ravel) and pages of our days (Giacinto Scelsi, Tristan Murail, Gérard Grisey and the Brazilian “Guinga”), with the participation of the very vital clarinetist – and fellow citizen – Gabriele Mirabassi.

Marco Momi

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ONLINE TICKETS

Single seat: 1 concert Euro 10.00

Single seat: 2 concerts Euro 15.00

It is also possible to buy tickets for the Horizons Festival at the offices of the Perugia Classical Music Foundation in Piazza del Circo, 6 in Perugia from Thursday 20 to Friday 28 May 2021 (except Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 May) from 15:00 to 18:00 .

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PROGRAM

THURSDAY 27 MAY 2021

“PEOPLE AND LANDS”: Folks from the East

Arvo Pärt: Fratres (1977/2015) *

Alfred Schnittke: Fugue (1953) for solo violin

Arvo Pärt: My heart’s in the Highlands (2000/2017) **

Edison Denisov: Sonata (1972) for solo clarinet

Galina Ustvol’skaya: Sonata No. 6 (1988) for piano

Arvo Pärt: Für Alina (1976) for piano

Arvo Pärt: Summa (1977/2009) *

Sofia Gubaidulina: Sonatina (1978) for solo flute

Arvo Pärt: Solfeggio (1963/2015) *

Sofia Gubaidulina:
Four Preludes from Ten Preludes (1974) for solo cello

Arvo Pärt: Magnificat (1989/2017) **

* version for saxophone quartet by A. Pärt
** transcription for saxophone quartet by G. Antongirolami

SIDERA SAXOPHONE QUARTET : Gianpaolo Antongirolami, soprano sax – Michele Selva, alto sax – Michele Bianchini, tenor sax – Daniele Berdini, baritone sax

SOUND WORKSHOP : Claudia Giottoli, flute – Raffaella Palumbo, clarinet – Chiara Franceschini, violin – Umberto Aleandri, cello – Filippo Farinelli, piano

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FRIDAY 28 MAY 2021

“PEOPLE AND LANDS”: En plein air

Mattia Parisse: FEECS
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in E major K 380; Sonata in D major K 96 for harpsichord

Mattia Parisse: Mechanical Pipes

Salvatore Sciarrino: A crystal grows fast (2017); A Tibetan in Paris (new skylines to breathe) for flute (2018)

Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in C major K 513; Sonata in C major K 159; Sonata in A minor K 175 for harpsichord

Salvatore Sciarrino: Venus that the Graces bloom (1989); How are spells made? (1985) for flute

Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in B minor K 27; Sonata in D minor K 141 for harpsichord

Mattia Parisse: GurdyGurdy

Salvatore Sciarrino: Arioso a 5 (2018) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

Matteo Cesari, flute – Chiara Cattani, harpsichord – Mattia Parisse, sound artist

SOUND WORKSHOP
Andrea Biagini, flute – Raffaella Palumbo, clarinet – Chiara Franceschini, violin – Umberto Aleandri, cello – Filippo Farinelli, piano

Marco Momi, director
Simone Pappalardo, sound direction – Nicola Cappelletti, sound direction