
Salieri Café
22/06/2024
Salieri Café
29/06/2024
Salieri Café
22/06/2024
Salieri Café
29/06/2024
Jewish psalms and songs from Gorizia to Jerusalem
In the section dedicated to Musica Capitale, the Piccolo Opera Festival offers an open look at the many cultures that over the centuries have marked the history of Gorizia, of its ancient County, of a territory always poised on a border. The concert pays homage to the vibrant Jewish identity of the city of Gorizia through a program that runs on two tracks: on the one hand, the text of the Psalms, which inspired various composers active in various historical and musical eras (as seen in the juxtaposition of baroque pieces by Benedetto Marcello with those of 20th- and 21st-century Israeli composers); on the other, the subtle thread that binds the undeniable Venetian cultural imprint on the territories “da Tera” and “da Mar,” running along the Adriatic Sea to the East, to the mosaic of peoples that has always composed not only the Serenissima, but also the equally famous Mitteleuropa. Benedetto Marcello, with his poetic-harmonic Estro (admired by such artists as Goethe, Rossini, and Verdi), setting the first fifty Psalms to music, ensured an important legacy for subsequent generations of musicians, while the other composers chosen for this fascinating journey into lost, but not forgotten, eras and geographies create a living map of these lands (Paul Ben-Haim was born in Frankfurt, Germany, Yehezkel Braun is from Wroclaw, Poland, Alexander U. Boskovich from Cluj Napoca, when it was still Hungary, Antonín Dvořák from Bohemia), of their sounds and traditions, translating them to other landfalls.
Music Program
Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)
Psalm 21 “Lord, do not delay” for baritone and strings
Psalm 42 “Dal tribunal augusto” for baritone and strings
Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984)
Psalm 23 “The Lord is my Shepherd” for baritone and strings
Alexander Uriyah Boskovich (1907-1964)
Psalm 23 “The Lord is my Shepherd” for baritone and strings
Yehezkel Braun (1922-2014)
Psalm for strings
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Biblical songs (nos. 4, 5, 6, 9, 10) for baritone, oboe and strings
– Psalm 23 “The Lord is my shepherd.”
– Psalm 144-145 “My God, I will sing to you.”
– Psalm 61-63 “Hear, O God.”
– Psalm 121 “I lift up my eyes to The Mountains.”
– Psalm 96-98 “Sing to the Lord a new song.”
Date:
22.6, time 18:30
Gabriele Ribis baritone
GO! Borderless Orchestra
Omer Arieli orchestra director
In collaboration with Friends of Israel Association
Free entry. Reservations recommended tickets@piccolofestival.org