The NST International Festival stops in Uri (SS)

Timeless notes ago in Uri: Stories and sounds of the Siglo de Oro

There is an invisible thread that unites small communities with the great assets of European culture. It is a thread made of sounds, Ancient stories and gestures that still today, centuries away, they manage to speak to our present. This thread has been following the international festival for years Timeless Notes, that Sunday 13 July 2025 will stop a Uri (SS), Bringing the music of the Spanish Renaissance in the heart of Sardinia.

A concert, a collective story

The concert program, entitled “Spanish stories of the Siglo de Oro”, was born from the collaboration between the Dr. Alberto Sanna e the whole Dolci Accenti, With the aim of transforming ancient music into an accessible story, Although, full of life.

Through passages from ancient collections - in particular the Palacio musical songbook - The public will be accompanied on a sound journey that touches the thousand facets of life in Spain of the 16th and 17th centuries: suspended loves, Village parties, regal complaints, Unbridled dances and songs that mix idioms and cultures. Because Spain of the Siglo de Oro was not a closed world, but a crossroads of peoples, Languages ​​and influences, Mirror of an empire that extended well beyond Europe.

What is the Siglo de Oro?

Il Golden age, literally “Century of gold”, It is the maximum splendor period of the Spanish culture, which extends approximately between the 1550 and the 1650, Under the kingdoms of Filippo II, III his IV. An era in which Spain was world power and the nerve center of the arts: painting, poetry, Theater and - of course - music.

Next to big names like Cervantes, Lope de Vega, El Greco or Velázquez, composers were flourished like Tomás Luis de Victoria, Francisco Guerrero e Cristóbal de Morales, whose works represent one of the leaders of European Renaissance music.

But the Siglo de Oro is not only made of shorts and cathedrals: it is made of roads, of villages, festivals, of ordinary people. It is this "minor" world, daily, That Dolci Accenti He wants to bring to light with the Uri concert.

Why bring ancient music to small towns?

The choice to play a Uri, A small center of the Sassarese, it is not accidental. It is part of the Festival mission Timeless Notes: Bring ancient music outside the great circuits, in the territories where culture can be an opportunity for meeting, listening and identity.

In a world that often runs too fast, slowing down to listen to the voices of the past becomes a revolutionary act. And do it in authentic places, where the community squeezes around art, It is a way to rediscover the transformative power of music.