The Museum of Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence has started to set up a multi-media archive: http://www.palazzo-medici.it/index.php which can be consulted also for musical examples that refer to the history of the palace. You have already access to pieces which were composed during the period in which the Medici family actually lived in the palace in Via Larga, from 1450 ca. until 1539 when Cosimo I married Eleonora di Toledo and moved to Palazzo Vecchio. The pieces have been recorded by the ensemble MUSICA RICERCATA and can be listened to after entering into http://www.palazzo-medici.it/mediateca/audioteca.php.
You may also choose ‘ANTEPRIMA MEDIATECA MEDICEA’ in the Italian homepage and then search for ‘Audioteca’. The following pieces have been inserted so far:
- Three musical versions of Lorenzo il Magnifico’s ballata ‘Un dì lieto giamai’ (Henricus Isaac, Bartolomeo degli Organi and Jacques Arcadelt)
- ‘Palle, palle’ and ‘A la bataglia’ by Henricus Isaac
- A five part instrumental version of ‘Celan sans plus’ by Giovanni de’ Medici (Pope Leo X).
Free entrance – Reservation obligatory: 055/241752
PROGRAMME
Thursday, June 30th, 9 pm
'Italia bella, mostrati gentile'
Canzonette and popular songs from the Italian Unification to World War I
Duo Voxarmonica
Thursday, July 7th, 9 pm
Music for two violins
Gossec, Jarnovich, Saint-George, Berwald, Bartók, Ukmar, Morricone, Schubert
Ladislao Pietro Horvath, violin
Michael Stüve, violin, viola
Thursday, July 14th, 9 pm
Filippo Buonarroti (1761-1837)
The passion of a revolutionary
Italo Dall’Orto, Silvia Baccianti, voices
Gionni Dall’Orto, music
Thursday, July 21th, 9 pm
Harmonies of the 20th century
Vitols, Enesco, Ciurlionis, Suchon, Englund, Skalkottas, Kavallaris, Vladiguerov
Michael Stüve, viola, violin
Angela Picco, piano
Thursday, July 28th, 9 pm
R. Strauus, Capriccio
P. I. Tchaikovsky, Souvenir de Florence
Andrea Tacchi, violin
Susanna Pasquariello, violin
Stefano Zanobini, viola
Hildegard Kuen, viola
Luca Provenzani, cello
Andrea Landi, cello
Free entrance – Reservation obligatory: 055/241752
PROGRAMME
Tuesday, June 29th, 9 pm
Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges between Boccherini and Mozart
Monique Ciola, piano
Michael Stüve, violin
Tuesday, July 6th, 9 pm
Lecture and music
Giorgio Caproni ‘Il seme del piangere’
Italo and Gionni Dall’Orto
Tuesday, July 13th, 9 pm
Contrappunti, Arie, Cacce, Minuetti
for viola tenore, viola contralto, viola d’amore and cello
(Vincenzo Galilei, Michel Corrette, Luigi Boccherini, Alessandro Rolla, Diego Ortiz, Monsieur Milandre and Carl Stamitz)
Angelo Bartoletti, viola
Michele Tazzari, cello
Thursday, July 22th, 9 pm
On Love and Death
Melodrammas by Franz Peter Schubert, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss (texts by F. Hebbel, P. B. Shelley, L. Uhland), from the Romancero Gitano by Garcia Lorca with compositions by Manuel de Falla
Rosetta Ranaudo, lecture
Norberto Capelli, piano
Monday, July 26th, 9 pm
Recital Mikhail Petukhov
Modest Petrovič Musorgskij, Mikhail Petukhov, Franz Liszt
Friday, July 30th, 9 pm
Mozart – Mendelssohn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Quintet in c major KV 515
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Quintet in b flat major op. 87
Quintetto Giotto
Andrea Tacchi, violin
Susanna Pasquariello, violin
Stefano Zanobini, viola
Hildegard Kuen, viola
Andrea Landi, cello
MUSICA RICERCATAs 2010 concert season starts with two concerts under the title “1989/2009: Towards a new Europe” that will take place Tuesday, February 2nd at 8 o’clock p.m. at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome, Viale Bruno Buozzi 113
and
Thursday, February 4th, at 9 o’clock p.m. at the Museum for Modern Art Luigi Pecci in Prato, Viale della Repubblica 277.
The programme has been commissioned by the director of the Austrian Cultural Forum, Astrid Harz, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. The programme includes musical compositions that have been composed between 1989 and 2006 by artists originating mainly from those countries that were particularly involved in the peaceful revolution in 1989 and had to deal with the many refugees in those days: Hungary, Austria and Germany. We will perform pieces by Hans Werner Henze, Kurt Schwertsik, György Kurtág, Iván Eröd, Gottfried von Einem, György Ligeti, Maurizio Kagel, Friedrich Cerha and Gerald Resch.
Performers are the young Austrian mezzosoprano Ida Aldrian, the Trento pianist Monique Ciola, the German violinist Michael Stüve and Roger Low, US born cellist with German citizenship.
The modern pieces alternate with folk-songs arranged by Ludwig van Beethoven for voice, violin, cello and piano. With this we tried to create a bridge across the centuries, from the newly awaken nationalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall back to the German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 – 1803) and his research of the ‘Voices of the Peoples in their Songs’. How much Herder’s thought influenced Ludwig van Beethoven can be seen from the quotation in a letter of this great German composer written to the editor Simrock in 1823: “I consider the hunting of folk-songs far better than hunting people, as do some of our highly praised heroes.”
Entrance to the concerts is free.
Other upcoming concerts will be listed under “Next events”
MUSA MUSEO MUSICA is the title of MUSICA RICERCATAs Florentine concert cycle which takes place in different museums since 1997. The concerts offer a repertory of all epochs of our musical history and usually take place in an ambiente which reflects the historic time of the respective programme.
MUSA MUSEO MUSICA 2009 follows the historic development of the trio forms, from the first instrumental piece known to us, the instrumental motet for three fiddles 'In seculum viellatoris' of the Bamberg Manuscript (13th century) up to the pianotrio.
'Europe in Music' is the title of MUSICA RICERCATA's 2008 Florentine Festival, a serious of seven musical events starting from the evening concert which concludes the International Conference on 'Ancient Greek Music' (October 4th). Seven musical events which take place in precious Florentine palazzi, museums and churches will gradually pass the entire musical history and lead up to the 'New Harmonies of the 20th century'. They will present at least one composer of every Country of the European Comunity.
