The human voice is the first and oldest of instruments. Con Spirit of the Season, the International Festival of Ancient Music Timeless Notes invites the public to rediscover its extraordinary expressive power through a journey that spans over four centuries of music history.
Saturday 4 July, at 22.00, in the evocative setting of Piazza della Misericordia in Castelsardo, the vocal group The joy of love, directed by Laura Gallo, will propose a program that takes the listener from the heart of the Renaissance to the twentieth century, in a continuous dialogue between tradition, spirituality and musical research.
The concert brings together some of the most significant pages of European polyphony, with music by Josquin Desprez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Lodovico da Viadana, Maurice Duruflé and Zoltán Kodály. A moment of particular interest will be dedicated to Giandomenico Martoretta, Southern Renaissance composer active in the second half of the 16th century and linked to the Moncada court. His works, still rarely performed, they represent a heritage of great historical and artistic value that the Festival continues to promote through constant research and valorisation.
Spirit of the Season it is constructed as a single sound story, in which each composition dialogues with the next. The clarity of Renaissance contrapuntal lines meets the harmonies and colors of twentieth-century choral writing, offering the public a listening experience capable of showing the continuity of a musical tradition that, while transforming in languages and forms, its ability to speak to contemporary man remains unchanged.
The stage costumes inspired by sixteenth-century Italian fashion will also accompany the music. The backup singers will wear the leap, also known as hair, refined female headdress typical of Renaissance noblewomen, together with gamurra, helping to create a visual context consistent with the proposed repertoire.
With this appointment, Timeless Notes renews its commitment to the diffusion of ancient music, proposing concerts that combine historical rigor, interpretative quality and valorisation of cultural heritage. An invitation to listen to time through the voice, letting yourself be guided by the beauty of polyphony in one of the most evocative villages in Sardinia.
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