Traditional Music UNESCO World Heritage

On the Istrian peninsula and along the Kvarner coast, various forms of two-part singing and music have been preserved in the “Istrian scale,” a musical tradition that was added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2009. The style is characterized by vigorous, partly nasal singing, which involves a certain degree of variation and improvisation, based on popular themes. Taking its cue from this, the concert has selected a florilegium of pieces by 20th-century and traditional composers, skillfully blending the languages and cultures of this land between the Alps and the Adriatic: from Val Resia to Friuli, from German to Slovenian to Croatian, along the route of a fascinating musical journey between classical and popular notation, without borders.

 

Music Program

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
49 Deutche Volkslieder

– In stiller Nacht

text by Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld

Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968)

Cade la sera

text by Gabriele d’Annunzio

Roberto Brisotto (1972-)

Epitaphium

text by Marcus Valerius Martial

Bruno Bettinelli (1913-2004)

Three madrigal expressions

– I Gia mi trovai di maggio
– II O Jesu Dolce
– III Il bianco e dolce cigno

Marij Kogoj (1892-1956)

Trenutek

text by Josip Murn Aleksandrov

Lojze Lebič (1934-)

Poletje

Issu

Mateja Petelin (1984):

Oj mati mam’ca

istrian folk song

Ambrož Čopi (1973-)

Eno drevce mi je zraslo

Slovenian folk song

Lojze Lebič (1934-)

Kako kratek je ta čas

Slovenian folk song

Marco Sofianopulo (1952-2014)

Se sintis

Friulan folk song

Alojz Srebotnjak (1931-2010)

Rezijanska

Resian folk song

Croatian folk singing

Uspavanka

Lullaby

Branko Stark (1954-)

Istrian Dance No. 1