Off to Venice
Concert tour leads students and teachers of the Department of Early Music to Italy
Under the motto "Italia mia", the Department of Early Music of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar is undertaking a one-week excursion to Italy. The students and teachers invite you to a total of five concerts in Venice from Saturday, February 25 to Saturday, March 4.
The historically informed performances will focus on Venetian music from the time of Titian, a 16th century master of Venetian painting.
Venice was already one of the greatest musical centers in Europe at that time. The acoustic journey through time takes the audience to the time of Titian, Bellini, Tintoretto and Veronese. Rarely heard, original sounds from an epoch of Venice, which was also great in music, whose seductive sensuality of sound and elegant virtuosity became a model in Europe.
Among others, the recorder consort of the Weimar University of Music performs in authentic rooms. Its members play on copies of Venetian instruments ranging from the soprano recorder to the sub-bass. In addition, there will be performances on Baroque string instruments and the harpsichord, supplemented by singing.
The concerts will take place in the "Chiesa di San Rocco", the "Palazzo Grimani", the "Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello" as well as in the "Chiesa Evangelica Luterana" and the "Chiesa del Ospedaletto".
"We love Venice and its music and want to touch the audience with original Venetian sounds right on the spot," recorder professor Myriam Eichberger explains the motivation for the small tour during the lecture-free period. "The opulent sensuality of sound of the Renaissance, the pioneering 'new music' of the Baroque and Vivaldi's brilliant delicacy are united in this program."
The concert tour takes place in cooperation with the "German Study Center in Venice."
[22 March 2023]