Summer Festivities of Early Music
11th International Music Festival
The Rise of Virtuosity
Prague, July 22 – August 8, 2010
The notion of virtuosity will be central to the eleventh annual Summer Festivities of Early Music – though not in a mere sense of astoundingly agile fingerwork or immaculate breath control. For true virtuosity serves beauty, and as a phenomenon can be experienced most profoundly when in harmony with emotion. This summer no fewer than nine musical encounters will feature musicians from all over Europe, all them true masters of their instrument, able to play and sing with technical bravura as well as with profound commitment and humility. In the Hvězda Summer Pavilion, the Troja Chateau, at Brevnov Monastery, Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia, or at the Martinic Palace, as the case may be, these musicians will transport us back to the age in which the first virtuoso performers were born.
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Boemo furioso
Recently Discovered Virtuoso Works of F. Jiránek in Vivaldi style
(F. Jiránek – Concertos and Sinfonias, A. Vivaldi – La notte)
Sergio Azzolini – baroque bassoon (Italy)
Marina Katarzhnova – concertmaster (Russia)
Collegium Marianum – baroque orchestra (Czech Republic)
Jana Semerádová – artistic leader, flauto traverso (Czech Republic)
Thursday, July 22nd 2010____________7.30 pm
Rudolfinum, Dvořák Hall, Náměstà Jana Palacha, Prague 1
Clavis ad cor meum
Sonatas by J. Benda and C. Ph. E. Bach
Miklós Spányi – clavichord (Hungary)
Saturday July 24th, 2010____________8 pm
Břevnov Monastery, Teresian Hall, Markétská 1, Prague 6
FantasĂas y Glosas
Virtuosity in Spanish Music of the 16th and 17th Centuries
(A. CabezĂłn, D. Ortiz, J. Arcadelt)
Accademia del Piacere (Spain)
Fahmi Alqhai – viola da gamba, artistic director (Spain)
Rami Alqhai – viola da gamba
Enrique SolinĂs – vihuela & baroque guitar
Alberto MartĂnez Molina – harpsichord
Monday, July 26th, 2010____________8 pm
Troja Chateau, U Trojského zámku 1, Prague 7
Violino Virtuoso
The Heyday of Violin Art in 17th-Century Bohemia
(H. I. F. Biber, J. H.  Schmelzer, G. Muffat)
Harmonie Universelle (Germany)
Florian Deuter – violin / artistic director
MĂłnica Waisman – violin
Dane Roberts – violone
James Johnstone – harpsichord /organ
Wednesday July 28th, 2010____________7.30 pm
Refectory of Dominican Monastery, Jilská street, Prague 1
The Art of Diminutions
Ornamented Madrigals of D. Ortiz, O. Lasso and L. Rossi
Bruce Dickey – cornetto
La Violetta (The Netherlands)
Paulina Victorina van Laarhoven – viola da gamba, artistic director
Thursday July 29th, 2010____________7.30 pm
Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia, Anežská 12, Prague 1
La Famosa Cantatrice
Homage to Italian Divas of the 17th Century
(B. Strozzi, F. Caccini, L. Luzzaschi)
Maria Skiba – soprano (Poland)
Gerd Amelung – harpsichord
Monday August 2nd, 2010____________7.30 pm
Martinic palace, Hradčanské náměstà 67/8, Prague 1
The King´s Solo
Flute Concert in Sanssouci, the Palace of Frederick the Great
(J. J. Quantz, C. P. E. Bach, F. Benda)
Jana Semerádová – flauto traverso
Barbara Maria Willi – harpsichord
Wednesday, August 4th 2010____________8.00 pm
Břevnov Monastery, Teresian Hall, Markétská 1, Prague 6
Il Canto d´Orfeo
Tenderness and Love in Arias by L. Rossi, D. Castello and B. Ferrari
Il Trionfo del Tempo (Belgium)
Jan van Elsacker – tenor
Thursday August 5th, 2010____________6.30 pm
Summer Pavilion Hvězda, Prague 6 – Liboc
Voyage en Europe
Baroque Ballet Performance in Four Acts
France of the Sun King
Drama in England
German Nostalgia
Carnival in Venice
La Compagnie L´Eventail – dance company (France)
Marie-Geneviève Massé – choreography
Olivier Bériot – costumes
Marie-Geneviève Massé and Jean-Marie Abplanalp – set design
Carlos Perez – ligting design
Collegium 1704 – baroque ensemble (Czech Republic)
Václav Luks – artistic director
Sunday, August 8th, 2010____________8.00 pm
Hybernia Theatre, Nám. Republiky, Prague 1
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