Brochure Utrecht Early Music Festival 2019

MUSIC’S FORGOTTEN CAPITAL

23 AUGUST / 1 SEPTEMBER 2019

Foreword

NAPOLI MUSIC'S FORGOTTEN CAPITAL Xavier Vandamme director-manager

Naples, lying in the shadow of Vesuvius and with enchanting Capri close by, was already a popular hub of pleasure and entertainment in ancient Greece. The city boasts an extremely rich and largely untapped musical heritage.

Today we grossly underestimate the importance of Naples. We see a city which, following Italian unification, when it suddenly lost its status as capital, fell victim to an almost fatal anarchy. Who could still imagine that for centuries the world’s eyes were fixed on Naples? That this was a centre of artistic renewal which spread throughout Europe? That its four conservatoires supplied the entire continent with instrumentalists, composers, castrati and other singers?

Naples was a city with over five hundred churches, with countless religious organizations and, for a brief period in the 18th century, four opera houses functioning simultaneously. Music could be heard everywhere.

This festival juxtaposes Naples’ present and past. We see the city where Mozart discovered opera buffa, but also today’s noisy and strange metropolis. We examine the unique social coherence which has for centuries ensured that high and low culture have gone hand in hand. And we look towards the future, because it turns out that Naples is a laboratory with ideas for tomorrow.

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STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg

STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg

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Dinko Fabris (I) Janskerk

Dinko Fabris (II) Instituto Cervantes

Dinko Fabris (III) Janskerk

Nicoleta Paraschivescu Janskerk

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Cordevento TivoliVredenburg

Jones & Baiano TivoliVredenburg

Ensemble Castelkorn TivoliVredenburg

Eva Saladin c.s.

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Storie napoletane Janskerk

Il Ciarlatano Paardenkathedraal

Storie napoletane Janskerk

Storie napoletane Janskerk

Enrico Baiano Lutherse Kerk

Marco Mencoboni Lutherse Kerk

Jean-Marc Aymes Lutherse Kerk

Cristiano Gaudio Lutherse Kerk

Le Miroir de Musique Pieterskerk

Ratas del viejo Mundo Pieterskerk

Tasto Solo Pieterskerk

Ensemble Leones Pieterskerk

Gli Angeli Genève Stadsschouwburg

La Galanía TivoliVredenburg

Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren (11.00u)

Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

Gijsbert Kok Domtoren

Mollet & De Wachter Domtoren

Gli Angeli Genève Stadsschouwburg

Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri Domkerk

Capriola di Gioia TivoliVredenburg

Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri Geertekerk

Cappella Neapolitana TivoliVredenburg

Scherzi Musicali Geertekerk

What’s new?

Janskerk

What’s new?

Janskerk

What’s new?

TivoliVredenburg

What’s new?

Janskerk

Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri TivoliVredenburg

Gli Angeli Genève TivoliVredenburg

Hespèrion XXI TivoliVredenburg

Stile Galante TivoliVredenburg

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Concerto Soave Pieterskerk

Weser-Renaissance Pieterskerk

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Guillermo Pérez TivoliVredenburg

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Huelgas Ensemble Festivalprelude (I) Jacobikerk

Il Ciarlatano Paardenkathedraal

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Huelgas Ensemble Festivalprelude (II) Jacobikerk

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Huelgas Ensemble Festivalprelude (III) Jacobikerk

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Openingsconcert: Passeggiata napoletana TivoliVredenburg

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Marco Beasley TivoliVredenburg

Dialogos TivoliVredenburg Nova Ars Cantandi Pieterskerk (23.00u)

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12.00-18.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

10.00-18.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

10.00-17.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

IVWC Pieterskerk

Singing workshop Marco Mencoboni Vrije School

STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg

IVWC Pieterskerk

Mimi Mitchell TivoliVredenburg

Andrea Friggi Janskerk

Debat Janskerk (10.00u)

Rebekah Ahrendt Janskerk

Conrad Steinmann Instituto Cervantes

Ensemble Aurora TivoliVredenburg

Ludus Instrumentalis TivoliVredenburg

La Cicala TivoliVredenburg

UrgentMusic TivoliVredenburg

L'Arpeggiata TivoliVredenburg

Storie napoletane Janskerk

Il Ciarlatano Paardenkathedraal

Fernando Miguel Jalôto Lutherse Kerk

Giovanni Paganelli Lutherse Kerk

Andrea Buccarella Lutherse Kerk

Il Ciarlatano Paardenkathedraal

Il Ciarlatano Paardenkathedraal

Mara Galassi Lutherse Kerk

La Fonte Musica Willibrordkerk

Melpomen Lutherse Kerk

A nocte temporis TivoliVredenburg

B'Rock + Horsch TivoliVredenburg

Storie napoletane Janskerk Bart Naessens Lutherse Kerk

Acronym Pieterskerk

Louise Acabo Lutherse Kerk

Camerata Trajectina TivoliVredenburg

Zonzo Compagnie Theater Kikker Henk Veldman Domtoren

Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

Bob van der Linde Domtoren

Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren (11.00u)

Wim Van Den Broeck Domtoren

Daedalus TivoliVredenburg

Abchordis Geertekerk

Utopia Pieterskerk

Cantar Lontano Jacobikerk

Talenti Vulcanici Janskerk

Holland Baroque Geertekerk

Graindelavoix Janskerk

Il Dolce Conforto TivoliVredenburg

L'Achéron Geertekerk

L'Escadron volant de la Reine Geertekerk

What’s new?

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What’s new?

Janskerk

What’s new?

Janskerk

What’s new?

Janskerk

What’s new?

Janskerk

Cantar Lontano TivoliVredenburg

Die Neue Hofkapelle Graz Stadsschouwburg

Graindelavoix Janskerk

Graindelavoix Janskerk

Vox Luminis TivoliVredenburg

Le Poème Harmonique Jacobikerk

L'Arpeggiata TivoliVredenburg

Ensemble Odyssee TivoliVredenburg

Tourbillon Geertekerk

Zonzo Compagnie Theater Kikker

Theatro dei Cervelli Pieterskerk

Vox Luminis & Il Gardellino Domkerk

Mitzi Meyerson TivoliVredenburg

Film concert TivoliVredenburg

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NAPLES A PARADISE INHABITED BY DEVILS? The most delicious cuisine in Italy, the most beautiful bay in Europe, a heavenly spot. But also: traffic chaos, refuse wars and organized crime. Naples is sometimes portrayed in harsh terms. Neapolitans themselves describe their city as a place of a thousand contradictions, and as a beautiful woman with dirty feet. The very least that can be said of Naples is that life is lived passionately there, in bright colours and with intense emotions.

Centuries of oppression by Greeks, Romans, the French House of Anjou and Spanish Aragón turned Naples into a city of survivors and cosmopolitans. Naples was also one of the largest cities in Europe. In the 19th century Stendhal wrote that Europe had only two genuine capital cities: Paris and Naples.

During this festival Naples will shine in all its colours, but the city’s challenges will also be addressed. How do you build a future on paving stones more than twenty-five centuries old? How can Neapolitans reconcile pagan devotion with a contrary desire for innovation? How do you learn to dance in the shadow of a volcano? In Naples you are confronted with the paradox of life.

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NAPLES – METROPOLIS OF MUSIC EUROPE’S MUSICAL TREASURE CHEST 1266, when Naples came under Angevin rule, saw the start of a cultural boom. Between the 15th and 18th centuries the city grew to become one of Europe’s most important centres of music. Naples proved to have a remarkably favourable climate for artistic innovation. The city was way ahead of its time.

The musical landscape was extraordinarily diverse thanks to the presence of the royal or viceroyal court, the practice of music in churches, fraternities and charitable institutions, financial support from well-to-do citizens and the popularity of song and dance in public life. Neapolitan – not a dialect but a real language – fed not only the traditional canzoni but also the commedia dell’arte and opera buffa, which made Naples the centre of musical drama.

Brilliant polyphonists such as Agricola and De Macque, Baroque greats including Scarlatti and Provencale, and pre-classical masters like Pergolesi and Jommelli: Naples challenges and inspires, all the way to O sole mio and Funiculi funicula.

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MARCO MENCOBONI KOP SUBKOPIN RESIDENCE ARTIST Warm-hearted, flamboyant and generous in all that he does: when Marco Mencoboni appears, you’re in for a treat.

Inleiding As artist in residence this harpsichordist and specialist in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque is responsible for three productions and a singing workshop based on the festival’s theme.

He takes his place at the harpsichord in person to pay homage to keyboard virtuoso Giovanni Maria Trabaci. In a large-scale evening concert based around Diego Ortiz, the Spanish composer in the service of the viceroy of Naples, Mencoboni, together with his ensemble Cantar Lontano, does what he’s best at: experimenting with spatial effects. Finally, he and his ensemble present Durante’s Requiem: ‘An intense production with cast-iron music, in which our soprano Valentina Mastrangelo – rising star of bel canto – can shine to her heart’s content,’ as the maestro describes it.

Su 25 Aug 13.00 / Marco Mencoboni Naples - city of keyboards: Trabaci We 28 Aug 20.00 / Cantar Lontano Diego Ortiz: Vesper in surround sound

Sa 31 Aug 17.00 / Cantar Lontano Francesco Durante: Missa per i morti

Su 1 Aug 10.00 / Marco Mencoboni Singing workshop: Leo's Miserere

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GIULIO PRANDI KOP SUBKOPIN RESIDENCE ARTIST With his energetic approach, keen eye for untapped 18thcentury repertoire, and Inleiding unerring feel for chiaroscuro in Baroque music, Giulio Prandi is an ideal artist in residence for this festival edition.

Prandi’s record of achievements is impressive. He has made his mark as singer, composer and conductor, but is also well known as a passionate musicologist and a scientist with a maths degree. With his Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri he will grace the posters three times, each time with sacred repertoire by Naples’ very finest. Drawing on the oeuvre of Durante, Perez, Jommelli and Pergolesi, Prandi will explore all regions of the High Baroque spectrum, between counterpoint with a wow factor and theatricality, new style.

Sa 24 Aug 20.00 / TivoliVredenburg A majestic vocal interplay: Pergolesi and Jommelli (Friend's Concert)

Su 25 Aug 17.00 / Domkerk La Vergine Napoletana

Tu 27 Aug 17.00 / Geertekerk Between church and theatre: Jommelli and Scarlatti

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FEBI ARMONICI NAPLES ON STAGE Natural disasters, wars and social catastrophes: Naples’ turbulent history is bursting with drama. Was this why theatrical music genres were so popular...? What is certain is that by the end of the 17th century Naples could compete with Venice in terms of attracting fans of musical drama, in part thanks to Alessandro Scarlatti – the most important opera composer of his generation. In the 18th century Naples became the birthplace of opera buffa. The influence of the commedia dell’arte is great, with the common rogue Pulcinella playing a central role as the personification of the city of Naples.

Following the example of the Febi armonici – opera troupes who painted Baroque Naples red – various ensembles will be heading for the boards during this festival edition. Artist in residence Marco Mencoboni’s ‘Baroque in surround sound’, a film concert with live organ improvisation, Il Ciarlatano and La Serva Padrona van Pergolesi and Scarlatti’s amazing oratorio Agar et Ismaele: auditorium lights out, spotlights on!

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NAPLES – CITY OF KEYBOARDS PARADISI, TRABACI, DE MACQUE, DURANTE, SCARLATTI, MAYONE, SALVATORE, GRECO In Marco Mencoboni, Jean-Marc Aymes and Enrico Baiano Neapolitan keyboard repertoire has some dyed-in-thewool ambassadors. Are you also curious about the talent of tomorrow? The series of keyboard concerts showcases several of the most promising young harpsichordists.

Cristiano Gaudio, who made an impression at the harpsichord competitions of Bruges and Milan, tackles Durante.

Giovanni Paganelli is conducting research into Domenico Scarlatti’s involvement with partimento and as well as his concert will also give a lecture in the series What's new?.

Andrea Buccarella, who also appears at this festival with his Abchordis Ensemble, will play keyboard music by Greco. Miguel Jalôto from Portugal, who studied in The Hague, gives a recital of works by Giovanni Salvatore. The very young Louise Acabo from France is particularly impressive: last year, at the tender age of nineteen, she won first prize at the prestigious Corneille Competition in Rouen.

Sa 24 Aug Enrico Baiano Su 25 Aug Marco Mencoboni Mo 26 Aug Jean-Marc Aymes

Tu 27 Aug Cristiano Gaudio We 28 Aug Bart Naessens Th 29 Aug Louise Acabo

Fr 30 Aug Miguel Jalôto Sa 31 Aug Giovanni Paganelli Su 1 Sep Andrea Buccarella

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THOMAS HÖFT CO-CURATOR After Björn Schmelzer’s successful stint at last year’s festival, writer, director and dramaturge Thomas Höft takes up the gauntlet as co-curator this year. This colourful figure from the theatre and opera world in Germany and Austria is seen as a cheerful and socially engaged visionary.

He knows the world of early music like the back of his hand.

Höft curates the styriarte festival, founded in 1985 to forge closer ties between Nicolaus Harnoncourt and his hometown of Graz. Höft has also run an early music platform in Cologne and was responsible for the latest edition of the music festival Potsdam Sanssouci. In Storie napoletane – a series of morning discussions and lectures – Höft lays bare the links between artistic, political and social subjects. In addition he is in charge of staging Agar et Ismaele, a biblical oratorio by Scarlatti thought to refer to the conflict between the Judaeo-Christian and Islamitic traditions. The icing on the cake is the comic opera intermezzo Il Ciarlatano.

Opening concert: TivoliVredenburg Fr 23 Aug, 20.00 Scarlatti: Agar et Ismaele Stadsschouwburg Utrecht Th 29 Aug, 20.00

Storie napoletane Janskerk Sa 24 Aug, 11.00 Mo 26 Aug, 11.00 Tu 27 Aug, 11.00 Th 29 aug, 11.00 Sa 31 Aug, 11.00

Il Ciarlatano Paardenkathedraal Sa 24 Aug, 14.30 Su 25 Aug, 11.00 Fr 30 Aug, 14.30 Sa 31 Aug, 14.30 Su 1 Sep, 11.00

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STORIE NAPOLETANE KOP SUBKOP ABOUT NAPLES STORIES Naples is a city with many layers: from antiquity to the present, from rich to poor, from religion to the Camorra.

Inleiding Co-curator Thomas Höft has invited a series of fascinating guests to take part in a collective search – including lectures and discussions – for the Naples of the past and the present.

Special attention will be paid to the solidarity among the population. Naples is the only European metropolis free of gentrification: all layers of the population live and coexist side by side. Also under the microscope will be the avant-garde, the growth in tourism, the scepticism concerning political and judicial integrity, the femminielli as a third gender and the contemporary image of Naples as created by authors such as Elena Ferrante and Roberto Saviano.

Pianist Olga Pashchenko will add lustre to the Storie Napoletane. Whether food for thought or food for the soul: these stories exist to be told – and passed on.

Sa 24 Aug 11.00 / Janskerk Siamo Pulcinella: the Neapolitan commedia dell'arte

Tu 27 Aug 11.00 / Janskerk Camorra: the power of La famiglia

Mo 26 Aug 11.00 / Janskerk The city as a theatre

Th 29 Aug 11.00 / Janskerk A paradise, inhabited by devils

Sa 31 Aug 11.00 / Janskerk Naples as the laboratory of the future

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PERGOLESI'S IL CIARLATANO MINI-OPERA WITH ADRIAN SCHVARZSTEIN The fusion of high and low culture is one of the most surprising characteristics of Neapolitan art production: the result – and the proof – of intensive contact between all strata of the population. Where popular music and art with a capital ‘A’ meet, vulgarity and nobility become interwoven: from the popular tarantella by Rossini to opera buffa as the fruit of commedia dell’arte and dramma per musica.

Neapolitan culture’s popular bias was the reason for choosing Pergolesi’s Il Ciarlatano, which is being staged by the makers of Musica Fugit in 2017, with Adrian Schvarzstein as stage director. That stage consists of a Piaggio Ape – an Italian three-wheeled scooter converted into a fold-out theatre.

This spicy mix of high culture and cheeky nonsense will be performed five times in the Paardenkathedraal Theatre, plus another five times, unannounced, as a pop-up opera, at surprising locations outside the city centre.

Sa 24 Aug 14.30 / Paardenkathedraal Su 25 Aug 11.00 / Paardenkathedraal

Fr 30 Aug 14.30 / Paardenkathedraal Sa 31 Aug 14.30 / Paardenkathedraal

Su 1 Sep 11.00 / Paardenkathedraal

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EARLY MUSIC YOUNGSTERS THE FUTURE ON THE STAGE During the Fringe, the International Van Wassenaer Competition and many festival concerts, you have over the years had the chance to discover a huge quantity of upand-coming early music talent. In 2019 we are giving new ensembles an extra boost, with even more concerts by musicians who, with a fresh approach and full of ambition, are making a name for themselves.

As always the festival programme features the names of many Dutch musicians or graduates of Dutch conservatoires. The story of international success for Vox Luminis, founded in The Hague, is well known, but there are also young musicians such as Lucie Horsch and Eva Saladin, and ensembles including Odyssee and Stile Galante, waiting to take over the baton.

Where Dutch ensemble culture is headed will also become the subject of a debate. Is the Netherlands still the model country it was in the 1980s and 90s, or has something changed? What sort of course do our ensembles steer in international waters? What role do governments play in that context? A debate for anyone who cares about music in, and from, the Netherlands.

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INTERNATIONAL VAN WASSENAER COMPETITION EARLY EDITION The Utrecht Early Music Festival has now hosted the biennial International Van Wassenaer Competition three times: a trial of strength in which young ensembles, playing historical instruments in exciting Baroque programmes, compete for the highest honour.

2019 marks the start of a new chapter. From now on the competition will take place annually, and its focus will alternate between Early, Baroque and Late repertoire. This means that the competition is growing considerably and will now assume its rightful place among the most relevant and original European competitions. During this festival edition, for the first time, you can expect ensembles specialized in music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Jury Krijn Koetsveld (chair) Katarina LivjaniĆ Guillermo Pérez Carine Moretton Anna Danilevskaia Roberto Festa Th 29 Aug 10.00-16.30 hrs / Pieterskerk Semi-final Free admission

Sa 31 Aug 10.00-16.30 hrs / Pieterskerk Final Free admission

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SUMMER SCHOOL & WHAT'S NEW? ALTERNATIVE LISTENING The intriguing microcosm that calls itself Naples harbours a treasure trove of stories. And we tell these stories too.

From ancient Greek hymns to Baroque celebrations on the water: the amply filled morning programme of the Summer School gives you a better feel for the festival theme. We are proud that scholar in residence Dr Dinko Fabris will deliver three morning lectures sketching a picture of Naples’ busy musical life in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Later in the day there is What’s New?, a fresh format for inquisitive music lovers. In these short presentations (with free admission) enthusiastic performers and researchers share their most recent findings. Discoveries, surprises, insight, nuance and perspective: after an exciting half hour you’ll be totally up to speed again.

Sa 24 Aug 9.30 / Dr Dinko Fabris (I) 18.30 / Job IJzerman Su 25 Aug 9.30 / Dr Dinko Fabris (II) 18.30 / Elizabeth Dobbin Mo 26 Aug 9.30 / Dr Dinko Fabris (III) 18.30 / Job ter Haar

Tu 27 Aug 9.30 / Dr Nicoleta Paraschivescu 18.30 / Laila Neuman We 28 Aug 9.30 / Dr Mimi Mitchell 18.30 / Dr Mariafederica Castaldo Th 29 Aug 9.30 / Dr Andrea Friggi 18.30 / Franziska Fleischanderl

Fr 30 Aug (no Summer School) 18.30 / Dr Inês d'Avena Sa 31 Aug 9.30 / Dr Rebekah Ahrendt 18.30 / João Santos Su 1 Sep 9.30 / Conrad Steinmann 18.30 / Giovanni Paganelli

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STIMU-SYMPOSIUM THE HISTORICAL VIOLIN This edition of the STIMU symposium – the annual gathering of academics, performers and builders – focuses on the revival of the historical Baroque violin. Exactly thirty years after the Stichting voor Muziekhistorische Uitvoeringspraktijk (STIMU) organized their first, pioneering international violin conference, we are organizing an update which looks towards the future.

Symposium curator Dr Mimi Mitchell, who recently received her doctorate, based on this subject, from the University of Amsterdam. For three days she will be keeping her finger on the pulse of contemporary violin practice based on historical principles. In combination with the symposium there will be various morning concerts offering a place of honour to the youngest generation, including Eva Saladin from the Netherlands.

Mo 26 Aug 9.30-17.00 / TivoliVredenburg STIMU-symposium

Tu 27 Aug 9.30-17.00 / TivoliVredenburg STIMU-symposium

We 28 Aug 9.30-17.00 / TivoliVredenburg STIMU-symposium

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UTRECHT EARLY MUSIC CARILLON FESTIVAL O CARILLON MIO! The Utrecht Early Music Festival will follow the familiar pattern: with concerts from dawn until long after dusk, a marathon prelude and a postlude, a whole range of activities, a music market, a competition, a fringe and... a carillon feast!

With music tailor-made for hammer and bell, rising stars and international talents cast a different light on the festival theme, whilst their sounds accompany you from one festival location to the next. Would you like to enjoy their playing without distractions? Then Flora’s Hof (on the corner of the Domplein and the Servetstraat) is the ideal place from which to listen.

Fr 23 Aug 18.30 / Malgosia Fiebig Sa 24 Aug 11.00 / Malgosia Fiebig Su 25 Aug 16.00 / Malgosia Fiebig Mo 26 Aug 16.00 / Gijsbert Kok

Tu 27 Aug 16.00 / Chantal Mollet & Jasmijn De Wachter We 28 Aug 16.00 / Henk Veldman Th 29 Aug 16.00 / Malgosia Fiebig

Fr 30 Aug 16.00 / Bob van der Linde Sa 31 Aug 11.00 / Malgosia Fiebig Su 1 Sep 16.00 / Wim Van den Broeck

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CHAMBER MUSIC IN THE MORNING KOP SUBKOPIS BEAUTIFUL SMALL With the series of eleven o’clock concerts, every festival day begins under a lucky star,Inleiding offering a mix of young talent – such as Eva Saladin and Josef Žák – and celebrities like Erik Bosgraaf, Christina Pluhar and Nuria Rial.

Anyone wanting to start the day calmly can begin with a concert on a small scale, Platte suchtekst as those involving the harp55 5 sichordist Enrico Baiano and cellist Catherine Jones, or the 5 sonatas for recorder and strings performed by La Cicala. Or would you prefer to get into top gear straightaway? In that case there are expressive madrigals of d’India, Trabaci and Strozzi sung by Nuria Rial. Or, last but not least, La Tarantella, L’Arpeggiata’s popular musical feast.

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Sa 24 Aug 11.00 / Cordevento Su 25 Aug 11.00 / Jones & Baiano Mo 26 Aug 11.00 / Ensemble Castelkorn

Tu 27 Aug 11.00 / Eva Saladin c.s.

We 28 Aug 11.00 / Ensemble Aurora Th 19 Aug 11.00 / Ludus Instrumentalis

Fr 30 Aug 11.00 / La Cicala Sa 31 Aug 11.00 / UrgentMusic Su 1 Sep 11.00 / L'Arpeggiata

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FESTIVAL WITH A HEART Music is often born of a desire to stir people, to make them think and to let them dream. Are we today still capable of operating this powerful emotion machine? To connect people and to enhance the world by means of music? The unforgettable production Musica Fugit (2017) – a performance in which concertgoers were shepherded through the city like refugees – was in that respect a milestone in the history of the festival.

More than ever we want to show our social engagement and to employ music as space, and as a language, for discussion. In this way co-curator Thomas Höft, with his Storie Napoletane in the Janskerk – our alternative festival centre – ensures the sociocultural embedding of the festival theme. With the pop-up opera Il Ciarlatano we visit different neighbourhoods of Utrecht to acquaint a new audience with early music. We are proud of our new social partner, De Tussenvoorziening. Their clients join in with our teams of volunteers and we encourage our audience to sign up as a Buddy ('Maatje'). Finally, with seventy free Fringe concerts and the collection of voluntary donations for The Encore ('De Toegift'), we are also making great musical experiences available to people with limited income.

Please find more information about these projects at oudemuziek.nl/hartslag

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13.00 Huelgas Ensemble (I) Jacobikerk

15.00 Huelgas Ensemble (II) Jacobikerk

FRIDAY 23 AUGUST

17.00 Huelgas Ensemble (III) Jacobikerk

18.30 Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

20.00 Opening concert TivoliVredenburg

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Friday 23 August

Jacobikerk

13.00, 15.00, 17.00 hrs

FESTIVAL PRELUDE HUELGAS ENSEMBLE / PAUL VAN NEVEL THREE CENTURIES OF INNOVATION IN NAPLES Passe-partout three concerts € 54 / € 45 Indiv. tickets 1: € 23 / € 20 / € 10 – 2: € 20 / € 17 / € 10

Order nos 01 (13.00) / 02 (15.00) / 03 (17.00)

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For centuries, Naples set the tone in the field of musical innovation. New Neapolitan developments were eagerly adopted throughout Europe. Naples became synonymous with quality, prestige and cutting-edge artistic invention.

This Huelgas triptych of concerts will illustrate why. We start with the sumptuous ‘musica irregularis’ (1400-1500)

by Tinctoris, Oriola and Cornago, who were in service at the Aragonese court. In the second part (1500-1600) it is the turn of Nenna, Rodio, Ferretti and the forgotten kapellmeisters Felis and Raval. The third concert (1580-1640) features groundbreaking Manneristic repertoire which flouts the boundaries of tonality and shamelessly flirts with decadence.

13.00 Festival prelude (I) Musica irregularis (1400-1500)

15.00 Festival prelude (II) L’affinamento del gusto musicale (1500-1600)

17.00 Festival prelude (III) Stravagante pensiero (1580-1640)

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TivoliVredenburg

20.00 hrs

OPENING CONCERT PASSEGGIATA NAPOLETANA WITH ANTONIO FLORIO, ERIK BOSGRAAF, WESER-RENAISSANCE BREMEN, MARIA MARONE ET AL. € 39 / € 35 / € 10

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During the opening evening the musical panorama of Naples unfolds before our eyes. In TivoliVredenburg we stroll from hall to hall and from one feast to the next.

Maria Marone sings Neapolitan songs. Weser-Renaissance Bremen performs 16th-century madrigals. Erik Bosgraaf plays Alessandro Scarlatti. And of course Pulcinella, the likeable scoundrel from the Neapolitan commedia dell’arte, puts in an appearance.

The evening’s crowning glory is provided by Antonio Florio, the man who has been unearthing Neapolitan repertoire for the past thirty years. With his Cappella Neapolitana he pays homage to San Gennaro, the popular saint who is said to protect the city from Vesuvius’ eruptions.

NB: Do you have trouble with stairs? A number of concertgoers can use the lift.

When ordering online choose the Lift ticket option, or make your request via the order form.

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9.00 Festival centre TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Le Miroir de Musique Pieterskerk

°°° 9.30 Summer School: Dinko Fabris (I) Janskerk

11.00 Fringe Various locations

SATURDAY 24 AUGUST

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Storie napoletane Janskerk

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Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

12.30 Fabulous Fringe Various locations

13.00 Enrico Baiano Lutherse Kerk

14.00 Fringe Various locations

14.30 Die Neue Hofkapelle Graz Paardenkathedraal

Gli Angeli Genève Stadsschouwburg

15.30 Fringe Various locations

17.00 Gli Angeli Genève Stadsschouwburg

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Cappella Neapolitana TivoliVredenburg

18.30 What’s new?

Job IJzerman Janskerk

20.00 Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri TivoliVredenburg

22.30 Concerto Soave Pieterskerk

24.00 Guillermo Pérez TivoliVredenburg

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9.30 hrs

Saturday 24 August

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. DINKO FABRIS (I) MUSIC IN NAPLES AROUND PRINCE GESUALDO DA VENOSA (1566-1613) Janskerk 60 minutes

Language: English

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Dinko Fabris is an absolute authority on Neapolitan music. We are proud that, as scholar in residence for this Festival, he will deliver three lectures sketching a picture of the social and artistic context in which Neapolitan composers and musicians worked. Today he will discuss one of the most colourful figures: Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa.

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â‚Ź5 Order number 05

11.00 hrs

Saturday 24 August

MALGOSIA FIEBIG PERGOLESI'S LA SERVA PADRONA ON CARILLON

Domtoren (best place for listening: Flora's Hof) 45 minutes

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A clever housemaid bags a rich bachelor: the plot of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona is as simple as it is brilliant. Gli Angeli Genève brings this romance to life on the stage whilst city carilloneur Malgosia Fiebig puts the bells of the Dom to work. Arias

by Scarlatti, Carissimi and Stradella complete this open-air recital.

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Free

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11.00 hrs

Saturday 24 August

ERIK BOSGRAAF, RECORDER CORDEVENTO SCARLATTI & FIORENZA: CONCERTOS FOR RECORDER

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 70 minutes

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Acclaimed worldwide as one of the finest recorder players of his generation, Erik Bosgraaf, assisted by the Cordevento ensemble, adds lustre to this first morning of the Festival with a Baroque aubade. Alessandro Scarlatti – patriarch of the Neapolitan school – is joined by Nicola Fiorenza in a miscellany of concerts which display the recorder at its best, from grave to veloce.

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â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 06

11.00 hrs

Saturday 24 August

STORIE NAPOLETANE SIAMO PULCINELLA: THE NEAPOLITAN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE

Janskerk 90 minutes

Olga Pashchenko keyboard Language English Free

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'Who is Pulcinella under that black mask? Is he a man, a devil, a god?' In these terms the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben sought the link between philosophy and comedy. Co-curator Thomas HĂśft explores the stories surrounding the figure of Pulcinella, and is joined in discussion by director and actor Adrian Schvarzstein.

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12.00 hrs

Saturday 24 August

UTRECHT BELLRINGERS GUILD BELLRINGING AND BELL WALKS

Bell towers in the city centre 45 minutes

12.15 hrs: bell walks with guides, western and southern routes.

Assemble on Domplein.

Free, but with a limited number of

Always a memorable moment: to open the Early Music Festival, the Utrecht Bellringers Guild (b)rings the bells of the entire city centre to life.

It begins with all fourteen bells in the Dom Tower, which can only be heard simultaneously a few times a year. Then bells in other churches join in, so that a veritable bell relay fans out over the city.

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participants.

Free

13.00 hrs

Saturday 24 August

ENRICO BAIANO NAPLES - CITY OF KEYBOARDS: PIER DOMENICO PARADISII

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 19 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 15 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 07

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During the 18th century Neapolitan Pier Domenico Paradisi, also known as Paradies, tried, with varying success, to develop his operatic career.

However, he is best known as a harpsichordist and teacher. His fellow Neapolitan Enrico Baiano pays homage to Paradisi with a selection from his volume of scintillating solo sonatas for harpsichord, which became popular throughout Europe.

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14.30 hrs

Saturday 24 August

DIE NEUE HOFKAPELLE GRAZ / MICHAEL HELL ADRIAN SCHVARZSTEIN, STAGING PERGOLESI: IL CIARLATANO

Paardenkathedraal 60 minutes

Julla von Landsberg Livietta Dominik WĂśrner Tracollo Adrian Schvarzstein Faccenda Thomas HĂśft Fulvia Didac Cano Factotum â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10

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With his cheerful opera intermezzo Il Ciarlatano, Pergolesi set a new trend: from that moment on what happened onstage was about ordinary people. The clever farmer’s daughter Lisetta manages to capture a cunning thief, the charlatan, after which the two fall hopelessly in love. Director and commedia dell’arte specialist Adrian Schvarzstein stages the opera in a mobile piece of scenery: a Piaggio Ape, especially converted for the Festival.

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Order number 08

15.00 hrs

Saturday 24 August

LE MIROIR DE MUSIQUE / BAPTISTE ROMAIN TINCTORIS’ SECRET CONSOLATION

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 09

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Johannes Tinctoris ranks as one of the most prominent music theoreticians of the 15th century. He wrote his most famous books in Naples. But he was also a gifted composer, with a particular fondness for the vihuela and the rebec. ‘I love using them – for the secret comfort of the soul.’ Together with four singers, Le Miroir de Musique celebrates Tinctoris with music from the Mellon Chansonnier and the Cancionero de Segovia.

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Saturday 24 August

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Stadsschouwburg Utrecht

15.00 & 17.00 hrs

GLI ANGELI GENÈVE / STEPHAN MACLEOD PERGOLESI'S LA SERVA PADRONA: HOUSEMAID IN CHARGE 1: € 23 / € 20 / € 10 – 2: € 20 / € 17 / € 10

60 minutes

Order number 10 (15.00u) & 11 (17.00u) 18

It is the pearl of the Neapolitan opera, the largest operatic success of the eighteenth century and a beautiful work that began its existence as a simple interlude. La serva padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is bursting with rhythm, humour, venom and subtlety.

The immense success was unexpected: in fact, Pergolesi's mini opera is completely unpretentious. Yet this funny and elegant piece opened the door to the era of the comic opera buffa, which was, half a century later, brought to its culmination by Mozart with his Le Nozze di Figaro.

Bénédicte Tauran Serpina Furio Zanasi Uberto René Claude Emery Vespone Kristelle Paré costumes and decor Lorenzo Malaguerra staging

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17.00 hrs

Saturday 24 August

PINO DE VITTORIO, TENOR LESLIE VISCO, SOPRANO CAPPELLA NEAPOLITANA / ANTONIO FLORIO FESTA NAPOLETANA! TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10

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Firmly rooted in Naples, Cappella Neapolitana has for thirty years now devoted itself to rediscovering the local musical heritage, which results in this truly festive concert. Entirely in the tradition of the sunny south, composers including Mancini, Vinci and Paisiello provide us with a luxurious buffet of ‘deliri, travestimenti, sberleffi e follie’. Leslie Visco and Pino De Vittorio are soloists in this folksy, exuberant music.

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Order number 12

18.30 hrs

Saturday 24 August

WHAT’S NEW? JOB IJZERMAN PARTIMENTO: A NEW METHOD CREATED

BY OLD MASTERS Janskerk 30 minutes

Language: Dutch Free

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Throughout the 18th century Italian masters wrote exercises in improvisation and composition – partimenti – for their pupils. This method proved to be a great success and spread throughout Europe. Job IJzerman teaches at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and recently published the study book entitled Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento, with which he wishes to breathe new life into this old teaching method.

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22.30 hrs

Saturday 24 August

CONCERTO SOAVE / JEAN-MARC AYMES TRABACI: MARCUS PASSION (WORLD PREMIERE)

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10

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A premiere: an Early Baroque passion which will be heard again for the first time in the modern age. Giovanni Maria Trabaci was a style pioneer who broke with the Neapolitan unison tradition, and was the first composer to write a complete passion cycle. With Jean-Marc Aymes’ unerring nose for quality, this concert belongs at the top of your list of favourites.

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2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 14

24.00 hrs

Saturday 24 August

GUILLERMO PÉREZ MACHAUT, LANDINI, CICONIA: ESTAMPIES AND CHANSONS ON ORGANETTO

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 45 minutes

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Guillermo PÊrez’s marvellous little organetto has the last word today. The Spanish keyboard virtuoso follows in the footsteps of the minstrels working at the Aragonese court in the 14th century. With estampies, chansons and madrigals by composers such as Machaut, Landini and Ciconia, his miniature organ accompanies us musically towards the quietest hours of the night. ₏ 15 / ₏ 13 / ₏ 10 Order number 15

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Saturday 24 August

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TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

FRIEND'S CONCERT CORO E ORCHESTRA GHISLIERI / GIULIO PRANDI A MAJESTIC VOCAL INTERPLAY: PERGOLESI AND JOMMELLI 1: € 39 / € 29 / € 10 – 2: € 37 / € 27 / € 10

70 minutes / no intermission

Order number 13 18

Destitute and ravaged by tuberculosis, he died at the age of 26: the tragic fate of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Today Pergolesi ranks among Naples’ leading musical export products. The comic intermezzo La serva padrona serves as his calling card, but the young genius had many more strings to his bow. His Mass in D major is a wonderful illustration of the compositional practice which had developed in Naples: Kyrie and Gloria are composed in the form of a theatrical vocal interplay between soloists, ensembles and choir.

In contrast to his contemporary and fellow Neapolitan Pergolesi, Niccolò Jommelli chose to pursue an international career. His setting of the psalm Dixit Dominus is an excellent example of the stile nuovo, its highlights being a virtuosic soprano quartet and an impressive vocal sextet.

Artist in residence Giulio Prandi will lead a large cast of singers and instrumentalists.

Francesca Boncompagni soprano Maria Chiara Gallo alto

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8.45 Workshop bellringing by hand Domtoren

15.00 La Galanía TivoliVredenburg

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Ratas del viejo Mundo Pieterskerk 9.00 Festival centre TivoliVredenburg

SUNDAY 25 AUGUST

9.30 Summer School: Dinko Fabris (II) Instituto Cervantes

11.00 Fringe Various locations

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Catherine Jones & Enrico Baiano TivoliVredenburg

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Die Neue Hofkapelle Graz Paardenkathedraal

12.30 Fabulous Fringe Various locations

13.00 Marco Mencoboni Lutherse Kerk

14.00 Fringe Various locations

15.30 Fringe Various locations

16.00 Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

17.00 Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri Domkerk

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Scherzi Musicali Geertekerk

18.30 What’s new?

Elizabeth Dobbin Janskerk

20.00 Gli Angeli Genève TivoliVredenburg

22.30 Weser-Renaissance Bremen Pieterskerk

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8.45 hrs

Sunday 25 August

UTRECHT BELLRINGERS GUILD WORKSHOP BELLRINGING

BY HAND

Domtoren 8.45-11.00 uur

Language: Dutch

Climb the Dom Tower with the bellringers to follow a bellringing workshop which lasts an hour, during which the theory of bellringing by hand is explained to you. After that you can ring the practice bells yourself in the Egmond Chapel, following which you attend the Sunday morning bellringing.

You will need to sign up for this event.

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Free, but sign-up necessary via info@klokkenluiders.nl

Sunday 25 August

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. DINKO FABRIS (II) MUSIC IN SEVENTEENTHCENTURY NAPLES: FROM TRABACI TO CARESANA Instituto Cervantes 60 minutes

Language: English â‚Ź5 Order number 16

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Few people know as much about Neapolitan musical life as Dinko Fabris. During this Festival, as scholar in residence, he will deliver three lectures sketching a picture of the social and artistic context in which Neapolitan composers and musicians worked. Today he examines a rich and little-known period: the 17th century of Trabaci up until Caresana.

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Sunday 25 August

11.00 hrs

CATHERINE JONES ENRICO BAIANO SUPRIANI & LANZETTI: SONATAS FOR CELLO

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10

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Catherine Jones and Enrico Baiano will give a concert packed with surprises. Next to a Corellian cello sonata by Geminiani and a solo for harpsichord by Alessandro Scarlatti they will play sonatas and toccatas by Salvatore Lanzetti and Francesco Paolo Supriani. With pioneering techniques and loads of contrast these Neapolitan cello gods delivered a unique contribution to the cello repertoire.

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11.00 hrs

Sunday 25 August

DIE NEUE HOFKAPELLE GRAZ / MICHAEL HELL ADRIAN SCHVARZSTEIN, STAGING PERGOLESI: IL CIARLATANO

Paardenkathedraal 60 minutes

Julla von Landsberg Livietta Dominik WĂśrner Tracollo Adrian Schvarzstein Faccenda Thomas HĂśft Fulvia Didac Cano Factotum â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 18

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With his cheerful opera intermezzo Il Ciarlatano, Pergolesi set a new trend: from that moment on what happened onstage was about ordinary people. The clever farmer’s daughter Lisetta manages to capture a cunning thief, the charlatan, after which the two fall hopelessly in love. Director and commedia dell’arte specialist Adrian Schvarzstein stages the opera in a mobile piece of scenery: a Piaggio Ape, especially converted for the Festival.

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Sunday 25 August

13.00 hrs

MARCO MENCOBONI NAPLES - CITY OF KEYBOARDS: GIOVANNI MARIA TRABACI

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 19 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 15 / â‚Ź 10

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He may not be completely forgotten, but in 2019 Giovanni Maria Trabaci is no household name either. Unjustly, since this productive organ virtuoso wrote not only a ton of vocal music but also more than 150 keyboard compositions. With its daring chromaticism and experimental thematic structures, this repertoire points resolutely in the direction of Frescobaldi. Festival artist in residence Marco Mencoboni selects Trabaci’s boldest works.

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Order number 19

Sunday 25 August

15.00 hrs

RATAS DEL VIEJO MUNDO / FLORIS DE RYCKER FABRIZIO DENTICE: SONGS

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

Michaela Riener soprano Soetkin Baptist alto IndrÄ— JurgeleviÄ?iĹŤtÄ— voice 1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 20

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An annual salary of 400 crowns was the small fortune Sir Thomas Chaloner was willing to pay for the services of lute and gamba virtuoso Fabrizio Dentice. In the 16th century this Neapolitan built a career for himself in Milan, Barcelona and Rome.

The ensemble Ratas del viejo Mundo – appearing in Utrecht for the first time – brings together musicians from all corners of the world to rediscover this forgotten Neapolitan.

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Sunday 25 August

15.00 hrs

LA GALANĂ?A / RAQUEL ANDUEZA EL BAILE PERDIDO

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10

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Her crystalline timbre, huge power of expression and captivating personality make Spanish soprano Raquel Andueza a favourite with Utrecht audiences. You will hear her with her own ensemble La GalanĂ­a in genuine Spanish repertoire with a twist: 17th-century dances with texts that were recently reconstructed by the Spanish musicologist Ă lvaro Torrente, and melodies in the Neapolitan style so favoured at that time.

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Order number 21

Sunday 25 August

16.00 hrs

MALGOSIA FIEBIG PERGOLESI'S STABAT MATER ON CARILLON

Domtoren (best place for listening: Flora's Hof) 45 minutes

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The dream prelude to the Stabat Mater polyptych to be unveiled by Gli Angeli Genève this evening: this ‘hammered’ version of Pergolesi’s immortal masterpiece. In the hands of Malgosia Fiebig and arranged by Arie Abbenes, the famous melodies of this lament make an unforgettable impression.

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Free

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Sunday 25 August

17.00 hrs

CORO E ORCHESTRA GHISLIERI / GIULIO PRANDI LA VERGINE NAPOLETANA: DURANTE, D'ASTORGA

Domkerk 60 minutes

Sonia Tedla soprano Maria Chiara Gallo alto Michele Concato tenor Matteo Bellotto bass 1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10

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Artist in residence Giulio Prandi has chosen 18th-century Marian music and follows the Virgin's story from the Annunciation to Golgotha.

Durante's Magnificat was long thought to be Pergolesi’s. It is truly a masterpiece, with impressive parts for the choir and sweet melodies. In his Stabat Mater, d’Astorga expresses Mary’s sorrows with daring chromaticism.

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2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 22

Sunday 25 August

17.00 hrs

SCHERZI MUSICALI / NICOLAS ACHTEN ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI: CHAMBER CANTATAS

Geertekerk 60 minutes

Wei-Lian Huang soprano Nicolas Achten baritone, theorbo, harp and musical direction 1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 23

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Hot from the press and already being performed in concert halls: music from the new recording

by Scherzi Musicali, musical all-rounder Nicolas Achten’s ensemble. The Belgian baritone leads his group through the fascinating Arcadia of Alessandro Scarlatti in cantatas which show the Neapolitan grandmaster at his finest: colourful instrumentation, captivating arias and wonderfully flamboyant theatre.

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Sunday 25 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? ELIZABETH DOBBIN ONE VOCAL AIR, THREE WAYS

Janskerk 30 minutes

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As part of her doctoral research into the performance practice of French Baroque music, Australian soprano Elizabeth Dobbin will present you with various versions of a 17th-century air sĂŠrieux.

The song will be performed according to the instructions of various theoreticians, and you can vote for your favourite version.

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Language: English Free

Sunday 25 August

22.30 hrs

WESER-RENAISSANCE BREMEN / MANFRED CORDES GIOVANNI DE MACQUE: MADRIGALS

Pieterskerk 60 minuten

1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 25

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An expressionistic serenade as the prelude to a thrilling Festival week: this was the task assigned to Manfred Cordes and Weser-Renaissance Bremen.

In Giovanni De Macque – one of the finest madrigalists of the period around 1600 – they found the perfect partner. De Macque, born in Valenciennes, was trained in Naples and evolved from conservative to experimental, writing multicoloured, evocative music on texts about ecstasy and broken hearts.

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Sunday 25 August

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TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

GLI ANGELI GENÈVE & QUATUOR SINE NOMINE / STEPHAN MACLEOD STABAT MATER X 4: PALESTRINA, SCARLATTI, PERGOLESI, PÄRT 1: € 39 / € 35 / € 10 – 2: € 37 / € 33 / € 10

120 minutes including intermission

Order number 24 E

In this evening concert Stephan MacLeod and his ensemble of soloists Gli Angeli Genève join hands to perform the most beautiful Stabat Mater settings from 400 years of musical history.

This journey from despair to salvation includes four milestones, the first being Renaissance polyphonist Palestrina. His eight-part Stabat Mater, composed for the Papal Chapel, is seen as an early highlight of the genre.

With Domenico Scarlatti and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi the programme takes us via High Baroque and Preclassical, finally arriving in a recent past - 1985, the year in which, at the request of the Alban Berg Foundation, Arvo Pärt composed this Marian work in his characteristic tintinnabuli style.

Ana Quintans soprano Aleksandra Lewandowska soprano Carlos Mena countertenor Andrew Tortise tenor Stephan MacLeod bass

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9.00 Festival centre TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Tasto Solo Pieterskerk

9.30 Summer School: Dinko Fabris (III) Janskerk

15.30 Fringe Various locations

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MONDAY 26 AUGUST

STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Fringe Various locations

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16.00 Gijsbert Kok Domtoren

17.00 Capriola di Gioia TivoliVredenburg

Ensemble Castelkorn TivoliVredenburg

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Storie napoletane Janskerk

12.30 Fabulous Fringe Various locations

13.00 Jean-Marc Aymes Lutherse Kerk

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Handleiding Oude Muziek Instituto Cervantes

14.00 Fringe Various locations

18.30 What’s new?

Job ter Haar TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Hespèrion XXI TivoliVredenburg

23.00 Nova Ars Cantandi Pieterskerk

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Monday 26 August

9.30 hrs

STIMU-SYMPOSIUM THE HISTORICAL VIOLIN

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 9.30-16.00 hrs

Dr. Mimi Mitchell curator Language: English

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This edition of the STIMU symposium focuses on the revival of the Baroque violin. Builders, performers and musicologists come together exactly thirty years after the STIMU organized, in 1989, their pioneering international violin conference. It is high time for an update, with attention for the future. You can find the complete programme online from 1 June.

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Passe-partout 3 dagen â‚Ź 20

Monday 26 August

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: DINKO FABRIS (III) LA CITTA' DELLA FESTA

Janskerk 60 minutes

Language: English â‚Ź5 Order number 26

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Dinko Fabris is an absolute authority on Neapolitan music. During this Festival, as scholar in residence, he will deliver three lectures sketching a picture of the social and artistic context in which Neapolitan composers and musicians worked. His subject for today is the cultural blossoming at the beginning of the 18th century.

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Monday 26 August

11.00 hrs

ENSEMBLE CASTELKORN / JOSEF Žà K THE VIOLIN IN NAPLES MATTEIS & GUIDO

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10

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‘No mortal ever played the violin better than Signor Nichola.’ The English rubbed their eyes in disbelief when in the late 17th century Nicola Matteis demonstrated his superior playing. Josef Žåk, Czech and violin prodigy of the latest generation, has selected three suites from Matteis’ Ayres for violin and basso continuo. He combines these with work by Giovanni Antonio Guido, who also studied in Naples and developed his career in France.

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Order number 27

Monday 26 August

11.00 hrs

STORIE NAPOLETANE THE CITY AS THEATRE

Janskerk 90 minutes

Olga Pashchenko keyboard Language: English Free

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Naples is theatre through and through. From the Greco-Roman foundations to the present-day blocks of flats: every square and every space forms a theatre. Co-curator Thomas HĂśft searches for stories of Naples, past and present, and discusses these Storie napoletane with German architect Volkwin Marg (subject to change).

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Monday 26 August

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Instituto Cervantes

13.00 hrs

HANDLEIDING OUDE MUZIEK WITH SASKIA TÖRNQVIST € 120 / € 110 incl. book and dinner

Order number 28

All-day programme Max. 40 participants.

Incl. dinner at restaurant Naast de Markt and voucher for a free programme book.

Other Guides take place on 27, 28, 29 en 30 aug.

Language: Dutch

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This is the perfect introduction to the three concerts you are going to hear. What are the differences between the various style periods? What exactly is historical performance practice? You will attend three concerts, and during dinner there will be time to compare your experiences with others.

13.00 Introduction 15.00 Tasto Solo 17.00 Capriola di Gioia 20.00 Hespèrion XXI

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Monday 26 August

13.00 hrs

JEAN-MARC AYMES NAPLES CITY OF KEYBOARDS: GIOVANNI DE MACQUE

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 19 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10

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The harmonic experiments, radical chromaticism and stylistic freedom of Giovanni De Macques prove how exciting Neapolitan keyboard repertoire actually is. Baroque expert Jean-Marc Aymes chooses his favourite toccatas and canzonas from the keyboard oeuvre of this Franco-Flemish composer, whose employers included the Gesualdo family in Naples.

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2: â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 15 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 29

Monday 26 August

15.00 hrs

ANNE-KATHRYN OLSEN TASTO SOLO / GUILLERMO PEREZ A MYSTERIOUS SINGER: ANNA INGLESE Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 30

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Madamma Anna, otherwise known as Anna Inglese, was a highly paid singer at the 15th-century court of Ferdinand I in Naples. How did this lady succeed in developing a professional career in music? As an Englishwoman, was she above all an exotic curiosity? American soprano Anne-Kathryn Olsen puts herself in her namesake’s shoes to create a portrait of her.

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TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

17.00 hrs

CAPRIOLA DI GIOIA / BART NAESSENS & AMARYLLIS DIELTIENS PORPORA: NEAPOLITAN & COSMOPOLITAN € 23 / € 20 / € 10

60 minutes

Order number 31 18

In the course of musical history Naples has dispatched a great number of its sons to conquer the world. Baroque monument Nicola Porpora undoubtedly ranks among the most successful of these sons, with a career which took him to Rome, Venice, Vienna, Dresden and London. With cantatas, opera fragments and instrumental work by this outstanding melodist, the Belgian ensemble Capriola di Gioia paints a portrait of this enterprising Neapolitan.

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Monday 26 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? JOB TER HAAR 'SO MUSSEN SIE ES SPIELEN!' RE-ENACTMENT AS RESEARCH METHOD TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 30 minutes

Language: English

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Imitating historical recordings as precisely as possible can be an interesting research technique in the field of historical performance practice. Job ter Haar, cellist and faculty member of Codarts Rotterdam, is working on his doctorate at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and by means of examples from performance practice will explore both the advantages and limitations of this reconstruction technique.

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Monday 26 August

23.00 hrs

NOVA ARS CANTANDI / GIOVANNI ACCIAI LEONARDO LEO: RESPONSORIA

Pieterskerk 60 minuten

1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 33

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In the twilight you will hear something which was originally meant for royal ears only: Leonardo Leo’s Responsoria, composed for the chapel of the Neapolitan court early in the 18th century. Having lain gathering dust for centuries, the works recently appeared for the first time in a modern edition, and have now been recorded by Nova Ars Cantandi.

Music full of lyricism and drama, free invention and very daring harmonies: well worth discovering.

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Monday 26 August

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TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

LA CAPELLA REIAL DE CATALUNYA HESPÈRION XXI / JORDI SAVALL CHANSONS, VILLANCICOS, DANZAS: THE NEAPOLITAN RENAISSANCE UNDER ARAGON 1: € 39 / € 35 / € 10 – 2: € 37 / € 33 / € 10

120 minutes including intermission

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Aragón and Spain play a major role in the history of Naples. In 1442 Alfonso V ‘The Magnanimous’ won the kingdom from the House of Anjou, thereby briefly bringing about reunification with Sicily. His son Ferrante ruled for almost forty years and transformed Naples into a centre of Renaissance art. Following a short-lived French intermezzo, Naples remained in the hands of the Spanish crown for more than two centuries.

For Jordi Savall the music of this period – chansons, villancicos and villanescas – is familiar territory. In the 1970s this cancionero repertoire was the first music he and his then recently founded Hespèrion unearthed. And now he returns to it, with anonymous songs from the Cancionero de Montecassino and compositions by Willaert, Gombert, Del Encina and De Cabezón.

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9.00 Festival centre TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Ensemble Leones Pieterskerk

9.30 Summer School: Dr. Nicoleta Paraschivescu Janskerk

15.30 Fringe Various locations

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16.00 Mollet & De Wachter Domtoren

11.00 Fringe Various locations

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17.00 Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri Geertekerk

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Marco Beasley TivoliVredenburg

TUESDAY 27 AUGUST

STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg

Eva Saladin c.s.

TivoliVredenburg

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Storie napoletane Janskerk

12.30 Fabulous Fringe Various locations

13.00 Cristiano Gaudio Lutherse Kerk

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Handleiding Oude Muziek Instituto Cervantes

14.00 Fringe Various locations

18.30 What’s new?

Laila Neuman Janskerk

20.00 Stile Galante TivoliVredenburg

22.30 Dialogos TivoliVredenburg

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Tuesday 27 August

9.30 hrs

STIMU-SYMPOSIUM THE HISTORICAL VIOLIN

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 9.30-16.00 hrs

Dr. Mimi Mitchell curator Language: English

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This edition of the STIMU symposium focuses on the revival of the historical Baroque violin. Builders, performers and scientists come together exactly thirty years after the STIMU organized their first, pioneering international violin conference. It is high time for an update which includes a look towards the future. The complete programme can be found on oudemuziek.nl from 1 June onwards.

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Passe-partout 3 dagen â‚Ź 20

Tuesday 27 August

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. NICOLETA PARASCHIVESCU PARTIMENTO IN NAPLES

Janskerk 60 minutes

Language: English â‚Ź5 Order number 34

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Just as jazz musicians use lead sheets containing the melody and harmony, 18th-century musicians learned to compose and improvise with the aid of partimenti: bass lines, sometimes with an indication of the harmony. Organist Nicoleta Paraschivescu teaches at the City of Basel Music Academy and demonstrates in this lecture/performance how the practice of partimento worked in Naples.

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Tuesday 27 August

11.00 hrs

EVA SALADIN, DANIEL ROSIN & JOHANNES KELLER THE VIOLIN IN NAPLES: CAILĂ’ AND HIS DISCIPLES

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10

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Around 1700 in Naples anyone who aspired to make a career as a violinist had Gian Carlo Cailò to reckon with: this virtuoso worked for the royal chapel and taught at four conservatoires. Only one of his sonatas was preserved, which inspired the young Dutch star violinist Eva Saladin, together with Daniel Rosin on cello and Johannes Keller on harpsichord, to build a programme around Cailò and his brilliant pupils Mascitti, Barbella and Piani.

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Tuesday 27 August

11.00 hrs

STORIE NAPOLETANE CAMORRA: THE POWER OF LA FAMIGLIA

Janskerk 90 minutes

Olga Pashchenko keyboard Language: English Free

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Co-curator Thomas HÜft searches for stories of Naples, past and present. His guest is Gert Hage, journalist and author of Naples. A Diabolical Paradise. They will discuss Italy’s oldest and largest criminal organization. The Neapolitan Camorra originated in the 17th century and is organized according to a strongly hierarchical family system.

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Utrecht Early Music Festival

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Tuesday 27 August

13.00 hrs

HANDLEIDING OUDE MUZIEK WITH FRANK DE MUNNIK

Instituto Cervantes All-day programme Max. 40 participants. Incl. dinner at restaurant Naast de Markt and voucher

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With music connoiseur Frank de Munnik you will attend three concerts, and during dinner there will be time to compare your experiences with others.

for a free programme book. Other Guides take place on 26, 28, 29 & 30 August.

Language: Dutch

13.00 Introduction 15.00 Ensemble Leones 17.00 Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri 20.00 Ann Hallenberg & Stile Galante

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â‚Ź 120 / â‚Ź 110 incl. book and dinner Order number 36

Tuesday 27 August

13.00 hrs

CRISTIANO GAUDIO NAPLES - CITY OF KEYBOARDS: SCARLATTI AND DURANTE

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 19 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 15 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 37

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Ever so young, but already the winner of multiple prizes: Cristiano Gaudio is a harpsichord player to keep an eye on over the coming years. You need wait no longer to experience him for the first time: we have engaged this superstar for a harpsichord recital of toccatas and sonatas by Alessandro Scarlatti and Francesco Durante - the primo maestro of the Conservatorio dei Poveri di GesĂš Cristo.

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Tuesday 27 August

15.00 hrs

ENSEMBLE LEONES / MARC LEWON ADAM DE LA HALLE: FOR KINGS AND CONNOISSEURS

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10

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Ensemble Leones takes a voyage of discovery through the soundscape inhabited by the kings of Naples and Sicily in the 13th century. Our guide on this journey is Adam de la Halle, who composed not only unison troubadour songs but also some of the earliest polyphonic chansons and motets. With fragments from Le Roi de Secile – sung again for the first time since the Middle Ages – this concert depicts a world that has vanished.

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Tuesday 27 August

16.00 hrs

CHANTAL MOLLET & JASMIJN DE WACHTER CARILLON FRINGE: FROM CIMAROSA TO O SOLE MIO

Domtoren (best place for listening: Flora's Hof) 45 minutes

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During this carillon fringe Chantal Mollet and Jasmijn De Wachter will defend the colours of the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen with sonatas by Cimarosa and Scarlatti, alongside box-office hits from Neapolitan song repertoire. With Funiculi funicula and O sole mio everyone in Utrecht will briefly fancy themselves as Caruso!

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Free

Utrecht Early Music Festival

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Tuesday 27 August

17.00 hrs

CORO GHISLIERI / GIULIO PRANDI & SCHOLA GREGORIANA GHISLIERI / RENATO CADEL BETWEEN CHURCH AND THEATRE: JOMMELLI & SCARLATTI Geertekerk 60 minutes

1: € 23 / € 20 / € 10 2: € 20 / € 17 / € 10

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To strengthen faith and stimulate piety: this was the role of music according to Pope Benedictus XIV, who in the 18th century carried out radical church reforms. Festival resident Giulio Prandi closely examines the religious repertoire of this period from a double perspective: that of traditional counterpoint, as in Domenico Scarlatti’s ‘Madrid’ Mass, and that of the modern, theatrical style of Perez and Jommelli.

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Order number 39

17.00 hrs

Tuesday 27 August

MARCO BEASLEY & ANTONELLO PALIOTTI CANZONE NAPOLETANA

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minuten

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You can’t think of Neapolitan music without thinking of Marco Beasley. As the son of an English father and a Neapolitan mother this legendary bard is simply unmissable. The master of the canzone napoletana makes you muse and dream, laugh and dance, with songs as expressive as they are intangible. Beasley is accompanied by guitarist Antonello Paliotti. € 23 / € 20 / € 10 Order number 40

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Tuesday 27 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? LAILA CATHLEEN NEUMAN 'DE STORM DER HARTSTOCHTEN': PASSIONATE EXPRESSION IN BODY AND VOICE Janskerk

Š Allard Pierson Theatercollectie

Language: English

30 minutes

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Laila Cathleen Neuman studied singing, specializing in historical acting and gesture. Since 2017 she has been working at Leiden University on her doctoral thesis about historical acting techniques.

Her focus is on the legacy of Dutch actor and painter Johannes Jelgerhuis (1770-1836), who can serve as a significant source for the historically informed singer.

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Free

Tuesday 27 August

22.30 hrs

DIALOGOS / KATARINA LIVLJANIĆ BARLAAM & JOSAPHAT

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 70 minuten

â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 42

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Katarina Livljanić presents the age-old story of Prince Josaphat and the hermit Barlaam. In this mosaic of cultures the story of Buddha is told, but then as a Christian saint. The oldest translation of this story, which was popular all over Europe, comes from Naples. Livljanić combines texts, ancient melodies and instrumental reconstructions in a performance that combines musical archaeology and artistic passion.

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Utrecht Early Music Festival

Tuesday 27 August

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TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

ANN HALLENBERG, MEZZOSOPRANO STILE GALANTE / STEFANO ARESI FARINELLI, FARINELLI! 1: € 39 / € 35 / € 10 – 2: € 37 / € 33 / € 10

100 minutes including intermission

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The Dutch ensemble Stile Galante and the Swedish superstar Ann Hallenberg view the Festival theme from a unique perspective: that of ‘primo uomo’ Farinelli. Born in Naples as Carlo Broschi, Farinelli developed an international career which, among other things, brought him to the attention of Philip V of Spain. Every evening for ten years he would sing the same songs to alleviate the king’s persistent depression.

From the idiosyncratic repertoire of the Neapolitan School, Stefano Aresi and Ann Hallenberg have compiled a concert programme such as it might have been heard around 1700 in the royal chambers. Thanks to their many years of research and joint experimentation with vocal techniques, not only of the instrumental line-up but also the typical singing and ornamentation style of the legendary castrato can now be approached with new insights.

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9.00 Festival centre TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Acronym Pieterskerk

°°° 9.30 Summer School: Mimi Mitchell TivoliVredenburg

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WEDNESDAY 28 AUGUST

STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Fringe Various locations

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Ensemble Aurora TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe Various locations

Zonzo Compagnie Theater Kikker

15.30 Fringe Various locations

16.00 Henk Veldman Domtoren

17.00 Daedalus TivoliVredenburg

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Holland Baroque Geertekerk

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Zonzo Compagnie Theater Kikker 13.00 Bart Naessens Lutherse Kerk Handleiding Oude Muziek Instituto Cervantes

18.30 What's New? Dr. Mariafederica Castaldo TivoliVredenburg

14.00 Fringe Various locations

20.00 Cantar Lontano TivoliVredenburg

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22.30 Theatro dei Cervelli Pieterskerk

Utrecht Early Music Festival

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Wednesday 28 August

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. MIMI MITCHELL THE BAROQUE VIOLIN REVIVAL: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 60 minutes

Language: English â‚Ź5

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The revival of the Baroque violin is part and parcel of the early music revolution during which historical instruments, playing techniques and aesthetics were rediscovered. Thanks to the pioneers the Baroque violin can now be heard in the major concert halls, and is also taught at all important conservatoires. Mimi Mitchell, curator of the STIMU symposium, takes a critical look at her own field of work and takes stock of the situation.

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Order number 43

Wednesday 28 August

9.30 hrs

STIMU-SYMPOSIUM THE HISTORICAL VIOLIN

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 9.30-16.00 uur

Dr. Mimi Mitchell curator Language: English Passe-partout 3 days â‚Ź 20

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This edition of the STIMU symposium focuses on the revival of the historical Baroque violin. Builders, performers and scientists come together exactly thirty years after the STIMU organized their first, pioneering international violin conference. It is high time for an update which includes a look towards the future. The complete programme can be found on oudemuziek.nl from 1 June onwards.

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Wednesday 28 August

11.00 hrs

ENSEMBLE AURORA / ENRICO GATTI THE VIOLIN IN NAPLES: FIORENZA, MARCHITELLI, LEO

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10

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A hundred years of Neapolitan music for violin consort and basso continuo: this is the tasty menu Enrico Gatti and his Ensemble Aurora have prepared for your listening pleasure. The flourishing musical life of Naples around 1700 was the breeding ground for many styles and genres. Ensemble Aurora explores the terrain between the church sonatas of Marchitelli, toccatas by Supriani, and the late chamber concertos by Fiorenza and Leo.

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Order number 44

Wednesday 28 August

13.00 hrs

HANDLEIDING OUDE MUZIEK WITH FRANK DE MUNNIK

Instituto Cervantes All-day programme Max. 40 participants Incl. dinner at restaurant Naast

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With music connoiseur Frank de Munnik you will attend three concerts, and during dinner there will be time to compare your experiences with others.

de Markt and voucher for a free programme book. Other Guides take place on 26, 27, 29 & 30 August.

Language: Dutch â‚Ź 120 / â‚Ź 110 incl. book & dinner Order number 45

13.00 Introduction 15.00 Acronym 17.00 Holland Baroque 20.00 Cantar Lontano

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Utrecht Early Music Festival

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Wednesday 28 August

13.00 hrs

BART NAESSENS NAPLES - CITY OF KEYBOARDS: ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 19 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 15 / â‚Ź 10

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At the age of 24 Alessandro Scarlatti was appointed royal Kapellmeister in Naples in 1684. There he had to deal with jealousy and contempt from those involved in the local music scene. Scarlatti came up with the best possible answer to this harassment by enjoying a brilliant career lasting nearly thirty years and producing a phenomenal oeuvre in the process. Bart Naessens chooses his favourite keyboard works from Scarlatti’s oeuvre.

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Order number 46

Wednesday 28 August

15.00 hrs

ACRONYM VALENTINI: ECCENTRIC CANZONAS AND SONATAS

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 47

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The American ensemble Acronym unearths the instrumental canzonas and sonatas of Giovanni Valentini. He became famous as Kapellmeister to the Habsburg emperors and developed the Neapolitan style north of the Alps. His instrumental pieces are packed with chromaticism and experimentation with metre, and are in that respect indebted to the music of Gesualdo.

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Wednesday 28 August 15.00 & 17.00 hrs

CHILDREN'S CONCERT ZONZO COMPAGNIE SONGS WITH ROOTS

Theater Kikker, Kleine Zaal Aline Goffin voice Jan Van Outryve ukulele, lute & cittern Beatriz Bagulho decor & props For children from five to ten years old

40 minutes

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Songs from all over the world can be heard in this children’s concert. Jan Van Outryve has been browsing through the gigantic archive of ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax and together with singer Aline Goffin will bring this repertoire to life. A simple, honest and moving concert.

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Language: Dutch â‚Ź 10 Order number 48 (15.00) or 49 (17.00)

Wednesday 28 August

17.00 hrs

HOLLAND BAROQUE FRANCESCO DURANTE: CONCERTOS

Geertekerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 50

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Holland Baroque places an unjustly forgotten master in the limelight: Francesco Durante was a leading figure in 18th-century Neapolitan music.

Pergolesi, Jommelli, Paisiello and many others were his pupils. Durante’s instrumental concertos are some of the finest produced by Naples in that genre, and even today they can still surprise you with their stylistic diversity and chromaticism.

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Utrecht Early Music Festival

Wednesday 28 August

90

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

17.00 hrs

DAEDALUS ENSEMBLE / ROBERTO FESTA DAEDALUS, ADDIO... € 23 / € 20 / € 10

80 minutes

Order number 51 16

After more than thirty years at the top Ensemble Daedalus is saying goodbye to the concert stage. That demands a fitting farewell. Roberto Festa sought and found music which mirrors his journey over three decades. With Italian carnival songs and morescas by Renaissance composers such as Barbetta, Banchieri and Falconieri, this farewell will be above all a party, with – true to tradition – first-rate performers, such as his travelling companion Marco Beasley.

Monika Mauch soprano / Marco Beasley tenor Josep Benet tenor / Josep Cabré baritone

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Wednesday 28 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT'S NEW? FONDAZIONE PIETĂ€ DE' TURCHINI BOOK PRESENTATION: STORIA DELLA MUSICA E DELLO SPETTACOLO A NAPOLI TivoliVredenburg, Hertz A

60 minutes

Together with the Fondazione PietĂ de' Turchini we are today celebrating the publication of Storia della musica e dello spettacolo a Napoli. This is a status quaestionis of investigation into music in Naples, and contains numerous contributions from specialists. Mariafederica Castaldo, Francesco Cotticelli and Paologiovanni Maione will present the new volume.

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Free

Wednesday 28 August

22.30 hrs

THEATRO DEI CERVELLI / ANDRÉS LOCATELLI TRABACI, FALCONIERI, MONTELLA: DEVOTION IN NAPLES Pieterskerk 60 minutes

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In 17th-century Naples song and dance offered some comfort to the earthquake-ravaged, epidemic-infested and volcanic eruption-stricken population. 'With four singers, gambas, harp, organ and harpsichord, Theatro dei Cervelli searches motets by Trabaci, Falconieri and Montella for stories of disaster, festivity and devotion.

1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 53

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Utrecht Early Music Festival

Wednesday 28 August

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20.00 hrs

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

CANTAR LONTANO / MARCO MENCOBONI DIEGO ORTIZ: VESPERS IN SURROUND SOUND 1: € 39 / € 35 / € 10 – 2: € 37 / € 33 / € 10

95 minutes including intermission

Order number 52 16

Anyone who has experienced Marco Mencoboni at work knows his experiments with cantar lontano, with groups of singers arranged on church balconies. 'Mencoboni now introduces this practice, common in Italy during the 16th and 17th centuries, to Utrecht: a spatial performance with over twenty singers and a dozen instrumentalists, which immerses the audience in a soothing Renaissance bath.

Supported by the TivoliVredenburg organ, they bring an exciting performance of the Vespers of Diego Ortiz, who was in charge of the court chapel at the end of the 16th century. These are supplemented with psalms

by Neapolitan composers including Scipione Dentice and Rocco Rodio, brimming with contrapuntal mastery.

The instrumental ranks of Cantar Lontano include two gambas, to provide a salute to the composer and author of the groundbreaking gamba compendium Trattado de glosas.

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THURSDAY 29 AUGUST

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9.00 Festival centre TivoliVredenburg

14.00 Fringe Various locations

9.30 Summer School: Andrea Friggi Janskerk

15.00 Camerata Trajectina TivoliVredenburg

10.00 International Van Wassenaer Competition Pieterskerk

11.00 Fringe Various locations

15.30 Fringe Various locations

16.00 Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

°°° Ludus Instrumentalis TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Abchordis Ensemble Geertekerk

°°° Storie napoletane Janskerk

°°° Graindelavoix Janskerk

12.30 Fringe Various locations

18.30 What’s new?

Franziska Fleischanderl Janskerk

13.00 Louise Acabo Lutherse Kerk °°° Handleiding Oude Muziek Instituto Cervantes

20.00 Die Neue Hofkapelle Graz Stadsschouwburg

22.30 Vox Luminis & Il Gardellino Domkerk

Utrecht Early Music Festival

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Thursday 29 August

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. ANDREA FRIGGI THE NEAPOLITAN SERENATA

Janskerk 60 minutes

Language: English

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17th-century Naples’ musical output was gigantic and Neapolitan composers and musicians were famous throughout Europe. Around 1680 a new genre became popular: the solo serenade for voice and strings. Taking this genre as his study subject, philologist, conductor and harpsichordist Andrea Friggi sketches the rich Neapolitan musical scene of the 17th century.

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â‚Ź5 Order number 54

10.00 hrs

Thursday 29 August

INTERNATIONAL VAN WASSENAER COMPETITION – EARLY EDITION SEMI-FINAL

Pieterskerk 10.00-16.30 hrs

You may enter or leave the venue between the performances (ca 20 min duration) Free

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The semi-final of the new section of the International Van Wassenaer Competition, Early Edition, is dedicated to repertoire from the Middle ages and the Renaissance. In the professional jury: Katarina LivjaniĆ, Guillermo Perez, Carine Moretton, Anna Danilevskaia and Roberto Festa; Krijn Koetsveld is chairman. The complete list with participants is available through oudemuziek.nl/competition from 1 July.

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Thursday 29 August

11.00 hrs

LUDUS INSTRUMENTALIS / EVGENY SVIRIDOV PORPORA: SONATAS FOR VIOLIN

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10

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The young Russian violin virtuoso Evgeny Sviridov heads for the south, with the compass pointing towards Nicola Porpora. Porpora was the most sought-after singing teacher of his time, and the composer of chamber music which was as elegant as it was rhetorical. Three of his sonatas ‘da chiesa’ join works by his contemporary Handel, and a fragment of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater arranged for violin solo.

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Order number 55

Thursday 29 August

11.00 hrs

STORIE NAPOLETANE A PARADISE INHABITED BY DEVILS

Janskerk 90 minutes

Olga Pashchenko keyboard Language: English Free

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The centuries-long oppression by foreign powers often led to Neapolitan resistance. The most famous examples are the fisherman Masaniello’s revolt in the 17th century and the ‘Four Days of Naples’ in 1943, when the Neapolitans freed themselves from the nazis. Co-curator Thomas HĂśft speaks to Dr. Mariafederica Castaldo, director of the Fondazione PietĂ de’ Turchini – Centro di Musica Antica, about anarchy, resistance and rebellion.

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Utrecht Early Music Festival

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Thursday 29 August

13.00 hrs

HANDLEIDING OUDE MUZIEK WITH SASKIA TĂ–RNQVIST

Instituto Cervantes All-day programme Max. 40 participants. Incl. dinner at Stadsrestaurant Zindering and

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With musicologist Saskia TĂśrnqvist you will attend three concerts, and during dinner there will be time to compare your experiences with others.

voucher for a free programme book.

Other Guides take place on 26, 27, 28 & 30 August.

Language: Dutch

13.00 Introduction 15.00 Camerata Trajectina 17.00 Abchordis Ensemble 20.00 Die Neue Hofkapelle Graz

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â‚Ź 120 / â‚Ź 110 incl. book and dinner Order number 56

Thursday 29 August

13.00 hrs

LOUISE ACABO NAPLES - CITY OF KEYBOARDS: ASCANIO MAYONE

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 19 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 15 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 57

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‘In compositions including passagework, out-oftune notes which are not in accordance with the laws of counterpoint do indeed occasionally occur.

But without them a beautiful effect is not possible!’ Neapolitan Ascanio Mayone resolutely consigns criticism of his daring compositional style to the wastepaper basket. He has found the perfect ambassador in Louise Acabo: the impressive and very young winner of the Concours Corneille 2018.

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Thursday 29 August

15.00 hrs

CAMERATA TRAJECTINA GRAND TOUR TO NAPLES

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

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In 1647 Nicolaas Heinsius sets off on a two-year tour of Italy, where it is not Florence or Rome that win his heart, but Naples. In Heinsius’ wake and guided by his vivid letters, Camerata Trajectina repeat the trip. With the finest Italian music from Dutch sources, including polyphonic madrigals by Marenzio, De Wert and Felis, this musical grand tour will have you itching to travel.

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â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 58

Thursday 29 August

16.00 hrs

MALGOSIA FIEBIG PERGOLESI, PORPORA & LEO ON CARILLON

Domtoren (best place for listening: Flora's Hof) 45 minutes

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Based on ‘her’ carillon and the Festival theme, the city carillonneur Malgosia Fiebig has arranged music for this recital that was originally written for the cello. Three Neapolitan masters are represented: next to a sinfonia by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Fiebig plays concertos by Nicola Porpora and Leonardo Leo.

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Free

Utrecht Early Music Festival

100

Thursday 29 August

17.00 hrs

MARIE LYS, SOPRANO ABCHORDIS ENSEMBLE / ANDREA BUCCARELLA GENNARO MANNA: ARIAS IN WORLD PREMIERE Geertekerk 60 minutes

1: € 23 / € 20 / € 10 2: € 20 / € 17 / € 10

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As the son of one of Naples’ most prominent musical families Gennaro Manna was blessed with a pen both versatile and skilled. And as an icon of the Neapolitan opera seria, with his lively and galant style of music, he trod the path between Baroque and Pre-classical. Abchordis Ensemble performs the world premiere of his finest arias, alternated with instrumental works by Durante, Porpora and Santangelo.

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Thursday 29 August

17.00 hrs

GRAINDELAVOIX / BJÖRN SCHMELZER THE LURE OF NAPLES: AGRICOLA VERSUS MONTECASSINO Janskerk 60 minutes

1: € 23 / € 20 / € 10 2: € 20 / € 17 / € 10 Order number 60

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The Aragonese king was willing to pay a fortune for Alexander Agricola’s extravagant polyphony. But before the year was out Agricola was already seeking work elsewhere. What traces did he leave and how did this adventure affect him? Björn Schmelzer is searching for aural proof in this spectacular confrontation between Agricola’s work and repertoire from the Neapolitan court chapel found in the Cancionero de Montecassino.

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Thursday 29 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? FRANZISKA FLEISCHANDERL THE ITALIAN SALTERIO: HISTORY AND REPERTOIRE

Janskerk 30 minutes

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In 18th-century Naples the psaltery – in Italian salterio – was played in convents and monasteries, noble houses and all the important theatres. The many manuscripts of original repertoire bear witness to the popularity of this unique instrument.

Franziska Fleischanderl is working on her doctorate at Leiden University.

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Language: English Free

Thursday 29 August

22.30 hrs

VOX LUMINIS & IL GARDELLINO / PETER VAN HEYGHEN NICCOLĂ’ JOMMELLI: REQUIEM Domkerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 62

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In 1754 Jommelli took up the position of ‘Ober-Kapellmeister’ at the ducal court of Stuttgart. There he wrote not only operas, serenatas and pastorales but also religious music for special occasions. One example is his Requiem, a musical farewell to the mother of Jommelli’s patron. Counterpoint German style, French ornamentation and Italian drama come together in this unique blend, which clearly bears Naples’ signature.

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Utrecht Early Music Festival

Thursday 29 August

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Stadsschouwburg Utrecht

20.00 hrs

DIE NEUE HOFKAPELLE GRAZ NOURUZ-ENSEMBLE THOMAS HÖFT, STAGING SCARLATTI: AGAR ET ISMAELE 1: € 39 / € 35 / € 10 – 2: € 37 / € 33 / € 10

125 minutes including intermission

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This marital drama from the Bible is seen as the mythic root of the conflict between the Jewish and Arab worlds.

Ishmael is the oldest son of patriarch Abraham and his slave Hagar. When Abraham’s wife Sarah becomes pregnant despite her advanced age, she forces her husband to banish Hagar and Ishmael to the wilderness. But an angel saves them from death. For Muslims Ishmael is a patriarch.

With great feeling for psychology Alessandro Scarlatti set this story to music in 1683. Scarlatti’s first Italian oratorio became a masterpiece. In this production, staged by cocurator Thomas Höft, Baroque ensemble Neue Hofkapelle Graz is flanked by the Nouruz Ensemble, which with its Arabian music represents the perspective of Muslims.

Claire Lefilliâtre Sara/Angelo Franziska Gottwald Agar Doron Schleifer Ismaele Jochen Kupfer Abramo Thomas Höft staging

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VRIJDAG FRIDAY 30 30AUGUSTUS AUGUST

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9.00 Festival centre TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Mara Galassi TivoliVredenburg

10.00 Debate Janskerk

15.30 Fringe Various locations

11.00 Fringe Various locations

16.00 Bob van der Linde Domtoren

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La Cicala TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Utopia Pieterskerk

12.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

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12.30 Fabulous Fringe Various locations

18.30 What’s new?

Inês d’Avena Janskerk

13.00 Fernando Miguel Jalôto Lutherse Kerk

Dolce Conforto TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Graindelavoix Janskerk

°°° 14.00 Fringe Various locations

14.30 Die Neue Hofkapelle Graz Paardenkathedraal

Le Poème Harmonique Jacobikerk

22.30 Ensemble Odyssee TivoliVredenburg

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Friday 30 August

10.00 hrs

DEBATE ENSEMBLE CULTURE IN THE NETHERLANDS: WHERE IS IT HEADING?

Janskerk 120 minutes

In cooperation with Fonds Podiumkunsten Language: Dutch

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Where is Dutch ensemble culture heading? Is the Netherlands still the model country it was in the 1980s and 90s, or has something changed?

What sort of course do our ensembles steer in international waters? What role do governments play in that context? For anyone who cares about early, Classical and new music in, and from, the Netherlands.

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Free

Friday 30 August

11.00 hrs

LA CICALA / INÊS D’AVENA MANCINI, SARRI, LEO, PULLJ: SONATAS FOR RECORDER

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

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Although opera was dominant in Naples, there were also plenty of compositions being written for recorder. The Dutch ensemble La Cicala juxtaposes sonatas by Francesco Mancini, successor to Alessandro Scarlatti as Kapellmeister of the prestigious Real Capella, with works by his colleagues Sarri, Leo and Pullj. â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 63

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12.00 hrs

Friday 30 August

EARLY MUSIC EXHIBITION TIVOLIVREDENBURG

TivoliVredenburg 12.00-18.00 hrs Every year the convivial atmosphere at the busy Early Music Market proves that early music is not restricted to the stage. In TivoliVredenburg more than fifty stallholders display instruments, study materials and music publications which can help you set to work yourself. A complete list of stallholders can be found on oudemuziek.nl/markt from 1 August.

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Free

Friday 30 August

13.00 hrs

HANDLEIDING OUDE MUZIEK WITH SASKIA TĂ–RNQVIST

Instituto Cervantes All-day programme Max. 40 participants. Incl. dinner at restaurant Naast de Markt and

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With musicologist Saskia TĂśrnqvist you will attend three concerts, and during dinner there will be time to compare your experiences with others.

voucher for a free programme book.

Other Guides take place on 26, 27, 28 & 29 August.

Language: Dutch â‚Ź 114 / â‚Ź 105 incl. book & dinner Order number 64

13.00 Introduction 15.00 Mara Galassi 17.00 Il Dolce Conforto 20.00 Le Poème Harmonique

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Friday 30 August

13.00 hrs

FERNANDO MIGUEL JALÔTO NAPLES - CITY OF KEYBOARDS: GIOVANNI SALVATORE

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 19 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 15 / â‚Ź 10

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Masterly Mannerism, situated somewhere between the stylus fantasticus and the artistic bloodline of Frescobaldi: this describes the surprising oeuvre of priest, organist, music teacher and composer Giovanni Salvatore. It is music which crackles with chromaticism, strong contrasts and clever games which play with expectations: a piquant oeuvre which in Miguel Jaloto’s nimble hands will also spice up our Festival day.

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Order number 65

Friday 30 August

14.30 hrs

DIE NEUE HOFKAPELLE GRAZ / MICHAEL HELL ADRIAN SCHVARZSTEIN, STAGING PERGOLESI: IL CIARLATANO Paardenkathedraal 60 minutes

Julla von Landsberg Livietta Dominik WĂśrner Tracollo Adrian Schvarzstein Faccenda Thomas HĂśft Fulvia Didac Cano Factotum â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 66

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With his cheerful opera intermezzo Il Ciarlatano, Pergolesi set a new trend: from that moment on what happened onstage was about ordinary people. The clever farmer’s daughter Lisetta manages to capture a cunning thief, the charlatan, after which the two fall hopelessly in love. Director and commedia dell’arte specialist Adrian Schvarzstein stages the opera in a mobile piece of scenery: a Piaggio Ape, especially converted for the Festival.

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Friday 30 August

15.00 hrs

MARA GALASSI DENTICE, TRABACI, MAYONE & DE MACQUE: THE HARP IN NAPLES

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 19 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10

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Both the double and triple harp probably originated in Naples and soon became widespread thanks to several female harp prodigies. International harp authority Mara Galassi continues in this tradition with a recital based around works by Dentice, Trabaci, Mayone and De Macque. Virtuoso fireworks, chiaroscuro and private jokes: music which says everything – wordlessly.

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2: â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 15 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 67

16.00 hrs

Friday 30 August

BOB VAN DER LINDE PERGOLESI, PORPORA & LEO ON CARILLON

Domtoren (best place for listening: Flora's Hof) 45 minutes

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Plenty of young talent in this year’s Early Music Festival, even reaching as far as the Dom Tower!

Bob van der Linde is not yet 25, but as well as being a prize-winner at international competitions, this masters student of the Royal Carillon School is also carillonneur of the Eusebiuskerk in Arnhem.

So be all ears for this carillon fringe, with repertoire varying from Baroque to Classical.

Free

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Utrecht Early Music Festival

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Friday 30 August

17.00 hrs

UTOPIA GIACHES DE WERT: FROM GHENT VIA NAPLES TO THE TOP

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10

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Palestrina and Monteverdi were fans. The Gonzagas and the d’Estes were his employers. And the Marchioness of Padulla was his Neapolitan patroness. Thanks to his talents Giaches De Wert moved from the region around Ghent where he was born to work in some of the most important Italian centres of Renaissance polyphony. He developed into an international star. The Belgian vocal ensemble Utopia sings his motets and Missa dominicalis.

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Order number 68

Friday 30 August

17.00 hrs

MARIE LYS, SOPRANO IL DOLCE CONFORTO / FRANZISKA FLEISCHANDERL FOR VOICE AND PSALTERIUM: ARIAS FROM THE CONVENT TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 69

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In 18th-century Naples nobody turned a hair if they heard a robust aria coming from behind convent walls. Il Dolce Conforto, with musical director Franziska Fleischanderl on psalterium, will treat us to fragments from virtuosic passion cantatas written for nuns by the city’s finest composers.

With its light-footed operatic style this extraordinary repertoire offers a surprisingly worldly perspective on sober life in the convent

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Friday 30 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? DR. INÊS D'AVENA THE RECORDER IN NAPLES

Janskerk 30 minutes

Language: English

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For her doctoral thesis recorder player Inês d’Avena, Educational Coordinator ad interim of the early music department of the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, explored the repertoire composed for her instrument between1695 and 1759 in Naples.

She discovered a very rich and today largely forgotten repertoire, thus proving that the recorder played a central role in Neapolitan musical life.

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Free

Friday 30 August

22.30 hrs

RAFFAELLA MILANESI, SOPRANO ENSEMBLE ODYSSEE / ANDREA FRIGGI FARINA, AMODEI: SERENATAS AND CANTATAS TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

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During the 17th century the Neapolitan rich and famous gathered in droves for the Spassi di Posillipo, open-air festivals on the coast. The most famous musicians sang and played for them from boats. With his Dutch Ensemble Odyssee Andrea Friggi presents the results of his research into this repertoire, with cantatas and serenades by Antonio Farina and Cataldo Amodei. â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 72

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Friday 30 August

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20.00-24.00 hrs

Janskerk

GRAINDELAVOIX / BJÖRN SCHMELZER MARATHON CONCERT: GESUALDO’S LAMENTATIONS € 39 / € 35 / € 10

Order number 70

4 hrs including 2 intermissions

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‘It was as if there, in the Janskerk, you relived a time you had never before lived, as if time itself was abolished; those voices lifted you up.’ Thus wrote Wim Boevink several months ago in Trouw, describing his purifying experience with Graindelavoix. The group performed a marathon concert during the Le Guess Who? festival, at the invitation of the Utrecht Early Music Festival. Today Schmelzer’s fearless singers take up the gauntlet once again.

Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsoria date from 1611 and were sung during the night-time divine office in the three days before Easter. Björn Schmelzer, last year’s co-curator of the Early Music Festival, lets the Neapolitan’s sometimes shocking sound experiments, only rediscovered in 1950, creak and grind, in a three-section concert lasting four hours.

Ook op Saturday 31 August

In cooperation with Le Guess Who?

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Friday 30 August

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Jacobikerk

20.00 hrs

LE POÈME HARMONIQUE / VINCENT DUMESTRE ANAMORFOSI 1: € 39 / € 35 / € 10 – 2: € 37 / € 33 / € 10

75 minutes / no intermission

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Sixteen years ago the CD Metamorfosi by Le Poème Harmonique, with improvisations on Italian faux-bourdons, was a smash hit in the world of early music. Now there finally will be a sequel to this success. Le Poème Harmonique delved in the repertoire of the Neapolitan laude: sacred, non-liturgical vernacular songs which became very popular from the Middle Ages onwards.

These songs were loved throughout Italy, often in the form of contrafacts, in which the existing music is assigned a different text. This concert follows the trail of the lauda tradition, from the Casa dell’Annuziata – one of the most important music institutions in Naples – to the very heart of Rome.

Deborah Cachet soprano Eva Zaicik mezzosoprano Nicholas Scott tenor Tomas Kral baritone Benoît Arnould baritone

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9.00 Festival centre TivoliVredenburg

9.30 Summer School: Rebekah Ahrendt Janskerk

14.30 Die Neue Hofkapelle Graz Paardenkathedraal

15.00 La Fonte Musica Willibrordkerk

SATURDAY 31 AUGUST

°°° 10.00 International Van Wassenaer Competition Pieterskerk

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A Nocte Temporis TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe Various locations

Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Fringe Various locations

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17.00 Cantar Lontano Jacobikerk

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L’Achéron Geertekerk

UrgentMusic TivoliVredenburg

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Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

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18.30 What’s new?

João Santos Janskerk

Storie napoletane Janskerk

12.30 Fringe Various locations

13.00 Giovanni Paganelli Lutherse Kerk

14.00 Fringe DIverse locaties

20.00 Graindelavoix Janskerk

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L’Arpeggiata TivoliVredenburg

22.30 Ensemble Tourbillon Geertekerk

24.00 Film concert TivoliVredenburg

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Saturday 31 August

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. REBEKAH AHRENDT LADY HAMILTON, AMBASSADRESS

Janskerk 60 minutes

Language: English

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The scandal-ridden life led by Emma Hamilton speaks to the imagination even today. Rebekah Ahrendt, professor at Utrecht University, examines Hamilton’s life as the British ambassadress in Naples. She explores the possibilities – and limitations – of female diplomacy and reveals Lady Hamilton’s role in forging international relations, above all by means of her musical performances.

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10.00 hrs

Saturday 31 August

INTERNATIONAL VAN WASSENAER COMPETITION – EARLY EDITION FINAL

Pieterskerk 10.00-16.30 hrs

You may enter or leave the venue between the performances (ca 30 min duration) Free

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The International Van Wassenaer Competition challenges promising young musicians to push their boundaries in direct competition with each other. Today four to six ensembles will compete in the final. They can win money prizes and a tour in the Early Music Season. And you can vote for your favourite!

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Saturday 31 August

11.00 hrs

MALGOSIA FIEBIG FIORENZA, VINCI, MANCINI & SCARLATTI ON CARILLON

Domtoren (best place for listening: Flora's Hof) 45 minutes

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Magosia Fiebig already proved earlier in the week that cello music sounds fine on the carillon. Today it is the turn of the flute: from the oeuvres of Fiorenza, Vinci, Mancini and Scarlatti the city carillonneur has chosen virtuosic sonatas for recorder and traverso which also sound excellent when played with hammers and clappers.

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Free

Saturday 31 August

11.00 hrs

NURIA RIAL, SOPRANO URGENTMUSIC / VERONIKA SKUPLIK MADRIGAL ART BASED AROUND CARAVAGGIO TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 74

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To this day the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples cherishes an altar piece by Italy’s most famous Early Baroque painter, who also briefly lived and worked in Naples: Caravaggio. With Baroque violinist Veronika Skuplik, impassioned soprano Nuria Rial and madrigals by d’India, Trabaci and Strozzi, this concert programme casts over the musical landscape surrounding the master a fitting chiaroscuro.

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Utrecht Early Music Festival

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Saturday 31 August

11.00 hrs

STORIE NAPOLETANE NAPLES AS THE LABORATORY OF THE FUTURE

Janskerk 90 minutes

Olga Pashchenko keyboard Language: English

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Traditionally the femminielli, homosexual men who dress as women, are an accepted phenomenon in Neapolitan culture. By means of literature and music co-curator Thomas HÜft goes in search of Naples’ stories. Alongside Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University) he examines whether the femminielli’s way of life, between church and society, between poverty and respect, can be a model for society in the future.

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Free

Saturday 31 August

13.00 hrs

GIOVANNI PAGANELLI NAPLES - CITY OF KEYBOARDS: PARTIMENTO WITH ALESSANDRO & DOMENICO SCARLATTI

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 19 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 15 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 75

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In the 18th century Naples’ musical education set the tone for the whole of Europe, thanks to the use of partimenti: exercises in composition and improvisation, on a figured bass. With the aid of carefully moulded bass lines, young virtuoso Giovanni Paganelli follows in the footsteps of father and son Scarlatti, between invention, improvisation and composition.

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14.30 hrs

Saturday 31 August

DIE NEUE HOFKAPELLE GRAZ / MICHAEL HELL ADRIAN SCHVARZSTEIN, STAGING PERGOLESI: IL CIARLATANO Paardenkathedraal 60 minutes

Julla von Landsberg Livietta Dominik WĂśrner Tracollo Adrian Schvarzstein Faccenda Thomas HĂśft Fulvia Didac Cano Factotum â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10

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With his cheerful opera intermezzo Il Ciarlatano, Pergolesi set a new trend: from that moment on what happened onstage was about ordinary people. The clever farmer’s daughter Lisetta manages to capture a cunning thief, the charlatan, after which the two fall hopelessly in love. Director and commedia dell’arte specialist Adrian Schvarzstein stages the opera in a mobile piece of scenery: a Piaggio Ape, especially converted for the Festival.

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Order number 76

Saturday 31 August

15.00 hrs

LA FONTE MUSICA / MICHELE PASOTTI DA CASERTA & FILIPOTTI: DULCEDO ET SUBTILITAS

Willibrordkerk 60 minutes

â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 77

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Filippotto and Antonello da Caserta were the first Neapolitan composers whose music was preserved. It is anything but primitive: these two belong amongst the prominent representatives of ars subtilior and the melodic Italian style which musicologist Nino Pirrotta christened ‘dulcedo’. La Fonte Musica immerses itself in the heritage of the first Neapolitan School, and gives us a taste of both early notated compositions and the unwritten traditions.

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Utrecht Early Music Festival

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Saturday 31 August

15.00 hrs

A NOCTE TEMPORIS / ANNA BESSON QUANTZ’S JOURNEY

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10

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‘Scarlatti accompanied me during my solo. I had the good fortune to gain his favour, inasmuch as he composed several works for me.’ Johann Joachim Quantz, the most famous flautist of the 18th century, struck a chord with Alessandro Scarlatti during his visit to Naples in 1725. The phenomenal traverso player Anna Besson leads us through flute repertoire by Scarlatti, Leo and the illustrious Quantz himself.

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Saturday 31 August

17.00 hrs

L’ACHÉRON / FRANÇOIS JOUBERT-CAILLET BIG BAND BAROQUE

Geertekerk 60 minutes

Chantal Santon-Jeffery soprano 1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 79

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Catchy tunes and irresistible dances, virtuosically improvising windplayers and a strong rhythm section: that was the recipe of the big bands which during the first decades of jazz produced their typical sound. Ensemble L’AchĂŠron is doing the same in Utrecht – Ă la Baroque – with dances based on famous Italian ground basses by composers such as Cavalieri, d’India and Monteverdi. With a colourful group of players this ‘jam session’ will be a feast.

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Saturday 31 August

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Jacobikerk

17.00 hrs

CANTAR LONTANO / MARCO MENCOBONI FRANCESCO DURANTE: MISSA PER I MORTI 1: € 23 / € 20 / € 10 - 2: € 20 / € 17 / € 10

60 minutes

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In the impressive Jacobikerk, artist in residence Marco Mencoboni will make Francesco Durante’s magnificent Requiem shimmer, with orchestra, soloists, two choirs, and a pair of French horns in the main role.

With the breathtaking vocal control of soprano Valentina Mastrangelo – rising star of bel canto – this concert will be a highlight of the Festival.

Valentina Mastrangelo soprano

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Saturday 31 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? JOĂƒO SANTOS THE IDEOLOGY OF TASTE AND MUSICAL DECLAMATION

Janskerk 30 minutes

Language: English

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Can we use 17th and 18th-century philosophy to reveal ideas about the musical practice of the day, and to understand them? JoĂŁo Santos is a music philosopher and flautist. As part of his doctoral thesis he demonstrates the relation between historical concepts of taste on the one hand and ideas about musical expression and acting on the other.

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Free

20.00-24.00 hrs

Saturday 31 August

GRAINDELAVOIX / BJÖRN SCHMELZER MARATHON CONCERT: GESUALDO’S LAMENTATIONS

Janskerk 4 hrs incl. 2 pauzes

In cooperation with Le Guess Who? Also on Friday 30 August â‚Ź 39 / â‚Ź 35 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 81

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Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsoria date from 1611 and were sung during the night-time divine office in the three days before Easter. BjÜrn Schmelzer, last year’s co-curator of the Early Music Festival, lets the Neapolitan’s sometimes shocking sound experiments, only rediscovered in 1950, creak and grind, in a three-section concert lasting four hours.

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Saturday 31 August

22.30 hrs

HANA BLAŽ�KOVà , SOPRANO MONIKA JÄGEROVà , MEZZOSOPRANO ENSEMBLE TOURBILLON / PETR WAGNER PERGOLESI: STABAT MATER Geertekerk 60 minutes

1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10

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There is a kind of music which seems to have been meant to last forever. The Stabat Mater of Pergolesi dwells in those exalted regions. Created during the composer’s final days, it is the ultimate demonstration of his gift for generating maximum impact out of minimal means. Gamba phenomenon Petr Wagner has invited Czech singers Hana BlaŞíkovĂĄ and MarkĂŠta CukrovĂĄ to take part in the ‘goosebumps’ concert for this Festival Saturday.

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Order number 83

Saturday 31 August

24.00 hrs

THE FINAL DAYS OF POMPEII FILM CONCERT WITH LIVE IMPROVISATION ON THE ORGAN

BY MARTIN DE RUITER

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 45 minutes

In cooperation with Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam â‚Ź 15 / â‚Ź 13 / â‚Ź 10 Order number 84

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The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 destroyed cities such as Pompeii and Herculaneum.

In 1913 director Mario Caserini made a spectacular film about the disaster. We are showing an abbreviated version of this silent film, alongside shorter films about city life in Naples around 1910.

The images will be accompanied live on TivoliVredenburg’s organ by Martin de Ruiter, head of music at the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam.

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Utrecht Early Music Festival

Saturday 31 August

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TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

L’ARPEGGIATA / CHRISTINA PLUHAR LA PAZZA: PROVENZALE, ROSSI, CARESANA 1: € 39 / € 35 / € 10 – 2: € 37 / € 33 / € 10

90 minutes / no intermission

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Christina Pluhar, leading lady of early music, grew up surrounded by Neapolitan sounds. In this Festival edition she shares musical memories from her childhood in not one, but two concerts. In tomorrow’s matinee Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata treat us to a remake of La Tarantella, one of the most successful early music recordings ever made.

This evening’s programme, entitled La Pazza, ranges from lyricism to drama in a selection from the oeuvres of forgotten composers who lived and worked in Naples.

The programme’s nestor is Francesco Provenzale, founder of the Neapolitan opera school and vocal Baroque’s innovator. Luigi Rossi and Cristofaro Caresana – Provenzale’s successors as treasurer of San Gennaro – also gained national fame with their sumptuous operas, cantatas and canzonettas.

Céline Scheen soprano Giuseppina Bridelli mezzosoprano Luciana Mancini mezzosoprano Vincenzo Capezzuto alto Alessandro Giangrande tenor João Fernandez bass

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8.45 Workshop bellringing by hand Domtoren

SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER

9.00 Festival centre TivoliVredenburg

9.30 Summer School: Conrad Steinmann & Giovanni Cantarini Instituto Cervantes

10.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Andrea Buccarella Lutherse Kerk

14.00 Fringe Various locations

15.00 Melpomen Lutherse Kerk

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Horsch & B’Rock TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe Various locations

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Singing Workshop Vrije School

11.00 Fringe Various locations

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L’Arpeggiata TivoliVredenburg

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Die Neue Hofkapelle Graz Paardenkathedraal

12.30 Fringe Various locations

16.00 Wim Van Den Broeck Domtoren

17.00 Talenti Vulcanici Janskerk

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L’Escadron volant de la Reine Geertekerk

18.30 What’s new?

Giovanni Paganelli Janskerk

20.00 Vox Luminis TivoliVredenburg

22.30 Mitzi Meyerson TivoliVredenburg

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Sunday 1 September

8.45 hrs

UTRECHT BELLRINGERS GUILD WORKSHOP BELLRINGING

BY HAND

Domtoren 8.45-11.00 hrs Climb the Dom Tower with the bellringers to follow a bellringing workshop which lasts an hour, during which the theory of bellringing by hand is explained to you. After that you can ring the practice bells yourself in the Egmond Chapel, following which you attend the Sunday morning bellringing.

You will need to sign up for this event.

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Sunday 1 September

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: CONRAD STEINMANN & GIOVANNI CANTARINI MUSIC IN ANCIENT GREECE

Instituto Cervantes 60 minutes

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How did music sound in ancient Greece and in the Greek colonies? Conrad Steinmann and Giovanni Cantarini, specialists in this area, search for ways of reconstructing the music in line with historical documentation and iconography. What can we learn from these sources, and how can we apply this knowledge to a present-day performance?

This afternoon Ensemble Melpomen will treat us to the sounds resulting from this research.

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10.00 hrs

Sunday 1 September

EARLY MUSIC EXHIBITION TIVOLIVREDENBURG

TivoliVredenburg 10.00-17.00 hrs Nowhere does your early music heart pound as it does at the Early Music Exhibition. With the world’s finest instrument builders and unique scores, it is a must for connoisseurs and music lovers. A complete list of stallholders can be found on oudemuziek.nl/markt from 1 August.

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10.00 hrs

Sunday 1 September

SINGING WORKSHOP WITH MARCO MENCOBONI

Vrije School, location Hieronymusplantsoen 10.00-15.00; 14.30 presentation in fringe Apply via oudemuziek.nl/zangworkshop Please provide information about your vocal experience, voice type and food allergies (lunch).

Language: English â‚Ź 30 incl. lunch

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Do you want to experience what it’s like to sing Baroque vocal music with singers from Cantar Lontano under the direction of artist in residence Marco Mencoboni? Then sign up for this workshop. The programme includes the splendid Miserere by Neapolitan composer Leonardo Leo.

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TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

11.00 hrs

VINCENZO CAPEZZUTO, ALTO ANNA DEGO, TEATRODANZA L’ARPEGGIATA / CHRISTINA PLUHAR LA TARANTELLA 1: € 39 / € 35 / € 10 – 2: € 37 / € 33 / € 10

75 minutes / no intermission

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Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata earned their place in the pantheon of early music thanks to their mastery, unique crossover projects and infectious enjoyment in playing. In 2002 Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata performed their first festival concert in Utrecht.

On the music stands back then: the programme that they will perform again today for the Utrecht audience. La Tarantella – Antidotum Tarantulae is dedicated to Southern Italian dances and songs. This mesmerizing music about love, desire, misfortune and melancholy can once more be heard live, in a freshly refurbished version.

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11.00 hrs

DIE NEUE HOFKAPELLE GRAZ / MICHAEL HELL ADRIAN SCHVARZSTEIN, STAGING PERGOLESI: IL CIARLATANO

Paardenkathedraal 60 minutes

Julla von Landsberg Livietta Dominik WĂśrner Tracollo Adrian Schvarzstein Faccenda Thomas HĂśft Fulvia Didac Cano Factotum â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10

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With his cheerful opera intermezzo Il Ciarlatano, Pergolesi set a new trend: from that moment on what happened onstage was about ordinary people. The clever farmer’s daughter Lisetta manages to capture a cunning thief, the charlatan, after which the two fall hopelessly in love. Director and commedia dell’arte specialist Adrian Schvarzstein stages the opera in a mobile piece of scenery: a Piaggio Ape, especially converted for the Festival.

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13.00 hrs

ANDREA BUCCARELLA NAPLES - CITY OF KEYBOARDS: GAETANO GRECO

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

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Before Porpora, Scarlatti and Pergolesi ruled the Neapolitan music scene there was Gaetano Greco, one of the finest music teachers and composers of his day. Andrea Buccarella, a young harpsichordist from Rome (also performing in the Festival with his Abchordis Ensemble), pairs Greco’s most beautiful toccatas and famous Ballo di Mantua with works by his pupil Durante, who with his ‘quattro stagioni’ explores every nook and cranny of the keyboard.

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Sunday 1 September

15.00 hrs

ARIANNA SAVALL, SOPRANO
 GIOVANNI CANTARINI, TENOR
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Sunday 1 September

15.00 hrs

LUCIE HORSCH, RECORDER B’ROCK ORCHESTRA LEO, MANCINI, SCARLATTI: CONCERTOS FOR RECORDER

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

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At the age of nineteen recorder player Lucie Horsch is already one of the Netherlands’ most successful export products. This winner of an Edison Classical Music Award in 2018 surprises the world with her musical maturity and the palette of colours she magically manages to extract from her instrument.

The B’Rock orchestra is inspired by this very young talent and scintillates alongside her in concertos

by Leo, Mancini, Sarri and Scarlatti.

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17.00 hrs

TALENTI VULCANICI / STEFANO DEMICHELI FEMALE VOICES: ANDREANA BASILE, GIULIA DE CARO AND ANNAMARIA SCARLATTI Janskerk 75 minutes

Cristina Donadio narrator Cristina Fanelli soprano Mariafederica Castaldo concept Angela Di Maso dramaturgy 1: â‚Ź 23 / â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 10 2: â‚Ź 20 / â‚Ź 17 / â‚Ź 10

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That musicians and audiences are beginning to discover Naples’ musical secrets has in part been achieved by the research institute Fondazione Pie­tà de' Turchini. Talenti Vulcanici is their house orchestra. With music by Scarlatti, Ziani and Provencale they create portraits of three female singers who made their careers in 17th-century Naples.

Narrator is Cristina Donadio, 'Scianel' from the series Gomorra based on the book by Roberto Saviano.

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Sunday 1 September

17.00 hrs

L’ESCADRON VOLANT DE LA REINE CARESANA, ZIANI, SCARLATTI: SETTIMANA SANTA

Geertekerk 60 minutes

EugÊnie Lefebvre soprano François Joron tenor 1: ₏ 23 / ₏ 20 / ₏ 10 2: ₏ 20 / ₏ 17 / ₏ 10 Order number 92

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‘True lovers of Italian music’ is how the musicians of the young ensemble L’Escadron volant de la Reine describe themselves. Their fascination with Naples resulted in a programme for Holy Week. A sonata by Ziani, a motet by Caresana and a dialogue by Nola embrace two ‘leçons de tĂŠnèbres’

by Alessandro Scarlatti. His Miserere and Sinfonia Terremoto provide the turbulent final note.

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18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? GIOVANNI PAGANELLI PARTIMENTO AND DOMENICO SCARLATTI

Janskerk 30 minutes

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Sunday 1 September

22.30 hrs

MITZI MEYERSON POSTLUDIUM: VEDI NAPOLI... E POI MUORI

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 60 minutes

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Vedi Napoli e poi muori: ‘See Naples and you can die happy’, as was said in Naples’ golden age. For us it is more metaphorical: when the last notes of the final concert in the Grote Zaal have died out, a meditation on birth, life and death will sound in Cloud Nine. American harpsichordist Mitzi Meyerson plays a refined postludium made up of musical tributes, elegies and laments by Couperin, d’Anglebert, Dowland and Froberger.

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TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

FINAL CONCERT VOX LUMINIS / LIONEL MEUNIER DOMENICO SCARLATTI'S STABAT MATER 1: € 39 / € 35 / € 10 – 2: € 37 / € 33 / € 10

75 minutes / no intermission

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Happy birthday Vox Luminis! Fifteen years ago this ensemble was formed at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. To celebrate, Vox Luminis will perform again the programme of their first CD, with works by Naples’ illustrious musical son Domenico Scarlatti.

Domenico Scarlatti has gone down in history as a pioneering keyboard composer. But his vocal oeuvre is no less impressive and spans almost all common musical genres and all phases of his career. Vox Luminis has chosen several of Scarlatti’s finest motets, including the Stabat mater, a highlight of his sacred oeuvre, in which tradition and innovation meet each other in a brilliant stile misto.

The Salve regina dates from the year of Scarlatti’s death and is the charming and moving synthesis of a life full of music. In between these works sonatas will be played on TivoliVredenburg’s Baroque organ.

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TICKET SALES & PRACTICAL INFORMATION More information and ordering: oudemuziek.nl/handleiding

ORDERING ONLINE You can buy tickets for the Early Music Festival from 1 June 2019 at 10 a.m. (for Friends who donate € 80 or more: 14 May, 10 a.m.; for other Friends: 21 May, 10 a.m.)

Online via oudemuziek.nl you can easily buy your tickets, 24 hours per day. If your email address is already known to us, you do not need to fill in any other details.

As a Friend you can enjoy your Friend’s discount by feeding in your unique Friend’s code. This has been mailed to you and is stated on your Friend’s card. If you have lost your Friend’s code, you can ask to have it sent to you via vrienden@oudemuziek.nl or +31 (0)30 232 9010 (on weekdays from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.). The Friend’s discount is valid for two tickets per concert.

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND DELIVERY Having completed your order you can pay with iDEAL, credit card or Podium Cadeaukaart, and can choose between: E-tickets: you pay € 2 per order and receive an email via which you can download your e-tickets. When you attend the concert make sure to take your e-ticket with you, or show it on your smartphone.

Tickets by post: you pay € 4,50 per order and receive an email confirmation.

The tickets will be sent to you by post within a few weeks. If you are requesting tickets for a concert which is taking place within five days after ordering, postal delivery is no longer possible and you can only order e-tickets or order by phone.

ORDERING IN WRITING Fill in the order form (included with this brochure) and send it off. You can choose between e-tickets and tickets by post (see above.) Having received your order we will send you a summary of the tickets ordered for you to check, plus a payment link. It is also possible to pay for your order via bank transfer, once you’ve received confirmation of the reservation. You can indicate this preference on the order form.

ORDERING BY PHONE From Monday 3 June you can order tickets by phone via 030 232 9010, on weekdays between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

You can choose between e-tickets and tickets by post (see above.)

FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE AND BOOKING LINE The festival box office is situated in the festival centre TivoliVredenburg, open daily from Friday 23 August from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. After 7.p.m. people attending the 8 p.m. concert are given priority.

N.B. For concerts not in TivoliVredenburg you can pick up bookings and buy tickets at the festival box office until 2 hours prior to the concert. After that you can only do this at the location itself, which opens 30 minutes before the concert begins. From 15 minutes ahead, tickets not picked up may be resold.

The festival booking line (030 232 9010) is reachable daily from Friday 23 August from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m.

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GIVE AN ENCORE. When ordering tickets you can choose to make a voluntary contribution of € 12,50 to De Toegift (The Encore). With the money collected in this way we pay for tickets for someone with limited income. The tickets reach those eligible by way of the Festival’s partnerships with locally based organizations such as the Armoedecoalitie Utrecht and the Voedselbank Cultuur.

REDUCED RATE The reduced rate for Friends is valid for a maximum of two people per concert. For students and holders of the U-Pas and CJP there is an extra low rate. You will need to be able to show a valid (international) student ID card, CJP or U-Pas at the entrance of the venue.

SEATING CATEGORIES AND ALLOCATION Seats at some concert venues are divided into categories. Category 1 offers the best view of the musicians, whilst category 2 is a little less favourable but cheaper. For many concerts the seats are sold by category, row and seat, whereas at other venues there is free choice of seating. Which system applies will be stated (in Dutch) on your ticket.

WHEELCHAIR ACCESS If you wish to make use of an allocated wheelchair space, you can order tickets only by phone or in writing. To check accessability for each concert venue, please visit our website: oudemuziek.nl.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR THE DISABLED Unfortunately, some concert venues are not sufficiently accessible to disabled people. The location map in this brochure (see page 153) shows by location whether it has wheelchair access, whether there are disabled parking places in the immediate vicinity, and whether there is a loop system installed to support the hard of hearing.

CONCERT DURATION Most concerts last an hour and have no intermission. The 8 p.m. concerts are longer and generally finish before 10 p.m. Information about each concert includes its duration and whether it has an intermission.

TICKET SALES SEASON CONCERTS Tickets for the Early Music Season can be purchased via oudemuziek.nl, where you will find all details and conditions.

CONDITIONS Take good care of your tickets. Contact us immediately if you lose them or do not receive them. Once issued, tickets cannot be returned.

STAY INFORMED Do you want to receive our monthly newsletter? Then register via oudemuziek.nl/nieuwsbrief or place a cross in the box on the order form.

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Send your completed and signed order form to: Organisatie Oude Muziek Plompetorengracht 4 3512 CC Utrecht The Netherlands Order your tickets online: oudemuziek.nl

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COLOPHON Brochure Utrecht Early Music Festival / Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2019 – Napoli Editors Susanne Vermeulen, Sofie Taes, Xavier Vandamme English translation Robert Coupe Concept design & design cover Doretta Rinaldi Lay-out Esther de Bruijn Cover image Stephanie Maze Images inside Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Mauritshuis, Casa dos Patudos, Getty Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sforza Castle Pinoteca, Allard Pierson Theatercollectie, Walker Art Gallery, Blanton Museum of Art, Statens Museum for Kunst, WEPA, Foppe Schut, Jesse Willems, Thomas Kost, Daniele Camiti, David Samyn, Wojciech Bednarski, Melle Meivogel, Jeff Weeks, Anaëlle Trumka, Emily Van den Broecke, Jimmy Kets, Mathias Kniepeiss, Jaqueline Imminkhuizen, Carole Raddato, Davide Zavatti, Thomas Höft, Sjaak Verboom, UKG, Roberto Povero, Emanuele Meschini, Adrien Touche, Mood Photostudio, Michal Novak, François Philipp, Matteo Belli, Greger Ravik, Dominik Schneider, Wouter Jansen, Teddie Hwang, Jean-Baptiste Millot, Willem Mes, Juliette Pacquier, Lorenzo Franzi, Lin Woldendorp, Julia Solonina, Armando Mancini, Eric Parker, Sanne Schouwink, Salvatore Capuano, Pug Girl, A.y.gor, Björn Trotzki, Priska Ketterer, Jana Jocif, Merlijn Doomernik, Francesco Giusti, Merce Rial, Anna van Kooij, Clive Barda, Hervé Pouyfourcat, Donald Bentvelsen, Yann Forget, Federica Zappalà, Rob Pumphrey, Patryk Gauza, Sarah Shaffer, Tom Hermans and the ensembles.

Print BCM Publication date 10 May 2019, changes reserved The 38th Utrecht Early Music Festival is a production of the Organisatie Oude Muziek and is made possible with support of Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Gemeente Utrecht (Culturele Zaken), Provincie Utrecht, Stichting Vrienden Oude Muziek, Fonds21, VSBfonds, K.F. Hein Fonds, Institut français, Jacoba van Wassenaer Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, BNG Cultuurfonds, Thurkowfonds, J.C.P. Sitchting, Van den Berch van Heemstede Sticting, Mr. August Fentener van Vlissingenfonds, Carel Nengerman Fonds, Alphatron, Stichting Orgel Comité Muziekcentrum Utrecht.

In coproduction with TivoliVredenburg, AVROTROS, Radio 4, Fondazione Pietà de' Turchini, Stichting Internationaal Van Wassenaer Concours, MAfestival, De Tussenvoorziening, Stichting voor Muziekhistorische Uitvoeringspraktijk, Concertzender, Stingray Brava, Utrechts Klokkenluiders Gilde, Concerto Media, Le Guess Who?, Eye Filmmuseum.

Special thanks to Thomas Höft, Mariafederica Castaldo, Francesco Cotticelli, Paologiovanni Maione, Jeroen Bartelse, Margriet van Kraats, Suzanne van Dommelen, Peter Tra, Jorunn Labordus, Bert Begeman, Gerko Telman en alle medewerkers van TivoliVredenburg, Eelke Bakker, Utrecht Marketing, Malgosia Fiebig, Dick Hoek, Leo Folgering, Theo Poort, Arent van Wassenaer, Michaëla van Wassenaer, Daniël Moolenburgh, Fonds Podiumkunsten, San Gennaro, Jumpstart jr. Foundation, Henk Klop klavecimbels & orgels, Jan Kalsbeek klavecimbels, Rosi Braidotti, Gert Hage, Adrian Schvarzstein, Nander Cirkel, Harm Witteveen, Robin Bekker, Eric San Giorgi, Marco Mencoboni, sacristans and employees of all mentioned institutions and festival locations, and all festival volunteers.

Media partners AVROTROS, Radio 4, Stingray Brava and ZIN Magazine.

The Early Music Season 19/20 is a production of the Organisatie Oude Muziek and is made possible with support of Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland, Goede Rede Concerten, Stichting Kasteel Amerongen, Kasteel Ammersoyen, AMUZ, Stichting Oude Muziek Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Waalse Kerk Amsterdam, Vrienden Dorpskerk Bloemendaal, Grote Kerk Breda, Chassé Theater, Zuiderstrandtheater, Stichting Musora Deventer, Deventer Schouwburg, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Prins Claus Conservatorium, De Meerpaal, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, Handelsbeurs Gent, Stichting Oude Groninger Kerken, Stichting Appassionata, Agora Theater, Stichting Oude Muziek Limburg, Theater aan ’t Vrijthof, Stichting Rijksmuseum Muiderslot, Laurenskerk Rotterdam, De Doelen, Stichting Zuidervermaning Westzaan, Cultuurbedrijf Noordoostpolder, Festival Uitgast, Almere Haven Festival, TivoliVredenburg, Muziekpodium Zeeland, Theater Figi, Grote Kerk Zwolle, Zwolse Theaters and Geelvinck Muziek Musea.

Special thanks to Dioraphte, Stichting Zabawas, Gemeente Utrecht, Provincie Flevoland, Provincie Utrecht, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten, Gemeente Zaandstad, de Stichting Kanunnik Salden/Nieuwenhof, het Elisabeth Strouven Fonds, het Elise Mathilde Fonds, het Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds en het Carel Nengermanfonds, the Stichting Vrienden Oude Muziek, local organiseres, sacristans and employees of all mentioned institutions and festival locations, and all volunteers.

Please find a guide to ordering tickets online here: https://oudemuziek.nl/handleiding Organisatie Oude Muziek oudemuziek.nl

Plompetorengracht 4 3512 CC Utrecht The Netherlands

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Organisation Director-manager: Xavier Vandamme Artistic adviser: Jed Wentz Business adviser and fundraising: Juliëtte Dufornee Artistic planning: Hitske Aspers Editor: Susanne Vermeulen Production: Marijse Poutsma, Go Brûens, Nicolien van der Veer, Kayleigh Hagen, Lara Fernández Piqueras, Alistair Franenberg, Simone Grootstad Box office: Wilmer de Jong, Tamar Tarenskeen Marketing and communication: Laura van den Boogaard Office: Judith Heeres Administrative office: Lynn Pham, Mark Achterstraat

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Transport: Matthijs Kappers Tuners: Eduard Bos en Edwin Beunk Light: James Murray Office volunteers: Ellen Vogelenzang, Marjan Tesser, Mick Symonds, Mariëtte Koenders Coordination festival volunteers: Yvonne Postma Supervisory Board Organisatie Oude Muziek Chairman: Mr. Johan van de Gronden Member: Mrs. Clairy Polak Member: Mrs. Hesje van der Meer Board Vrienden Oude Muziek Chairman: Dhr. Dick Hoek Member: Dhr. Hans Tromp

The Utrecht Early Music Festival is a member of REMA – Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne, the Utrechts Festival Overleg, the Utrechts Muziek Overleg and the Verenigde Podiumkunstenfestivals.

OUDE MUZIEK IN TIVOLIVREDENBURG 19 SEP 2019

30 SEP 2019

BEGINNINGS

Bach, Palestrina, Conti en Biffi

Nederlandse Bachvereniging ALEXANDER MELNIKOV

Speelt op 5 historische piano’s

13 DEC 2019

MONTEVERDI’S MARIAVESPERS Nederlandse Bachvereniging

15 DEC 2019

ZUID-AMERIKAANSE BAROK & MISA CRIOLLA Musica Temprana

30 JAN 2020

PERGOLESI’S STABAT MATER Capella Neapolitana & Giovanni Sollima

9 FEB 2020

VOLKOMEN TELEMANN Holland Baroque en Aisslinn Nosky

13 FEB 2020

22 FEB 2020

4 MRT 2020

26 MRT 2020

CONCERT SUPERGROSSO

Barok uit het Rijke Roomse Leven

Nederlandse Bachvereniging MONTEVERDIDAG Een hele dag alle facetten van Claudio Monteverdi

TRAUERODE

Bach en Zelenka

Nederlandse Bachvereniging o.l.v. Václav Luks NURIA RIAL & ACCADEMIA DEL PIACERE Durón en Bononcini

1 APR 2020

MATTHÄUS-PASSION Nederlandse Bachvereniging

9 APR 2020

MATTHÄUS-PASSION Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw

26 APR 2020

WATER MUSIC & MUSIC FOR THE ROYAL FIREWORKS Händel

B’Rock Kijk voor het volledige programma op tivolivredenburg.nl/oudemuziek

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Philippe Jaroussky EENMALIG IN NEDERLAND! Nederlandse Bachvereniging Orkest van de 18e eeuw Cappella Amsterdam Cappella Neapolitana Giovanni Sollima Música Temprana Núria Rial La Rêveuse Capella de la Torre

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Reserveer vóór 1 juni uw abonnement en betaal voor de hele serie € 255,-.

Na 1 juni zijn 1e rangskaarten los te koop à € 49,-.

ZATERDAG 5 OKTOBER 2019, 14.15 UUR

ZATERDAG 8 FEBRUARI 2020, 14.15 UUR

Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir György Vashegyi dirigent o.a. Gloria van VIVALDI

Collegium 1704, Václav Luks dirigent STRADELLA San Giovanni Battista

ZATERDAG 16 NOVEMBER 2019, 14.15 UUR

La Cetra Barockorchester & Vokalensemble Basel Andrea Marcon dirigent TORRI La vanità del mondo (Nederlandse première)

ZATERDAG 14 MAART 2020, 14.15 UUR

Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri, Giulio Prandi dirigent Requiem van MOZART en JOMMELLI ZATERDAG 11 JANUARI 2020, 13.00 UUR

ZATERDAG 11 APRIL 2020, 14.15 UUR

Il Pomo d’Oro, Francesco Corti dirigent HÄNDEL Orlando

Concerto Köln, Christian Curnyn dirigent Werken van LOCATELLI , ZELENKA en HEINICHEN

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU We owe a big thank you to all persons and institutions that make the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2019 possible. We want to express an extra word of thanks for their substantial support to:

our subsidizers,

our main sponsors,

our project sponsors,

our partners,

and all our Friends: the Vrienden Oude Muziek.

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The city centre of Utrecht is easily accessible by public transport. The Central Station is opposite TivoliVredenburg. Parking at TivoliVredenburg is also possible. There are six parking garages in the immediate vicinity. All of these garages have a limited number of places reserved for disabled visitors.