The cycle consolidates and expands its programme with 7 concerts and 3 conferences.
The Inca Town Hall and the Es Convent Foundation presented the fourth edition of the International Baroque Music Festival (FIMB). The series, under the artistic direction of the musician Bartomeu Seguí, kicks off on 13th February and this year includes seven concerts and three conferences.
‘The best way to care for and preserve our artistic past is to bring it to life, make it sound live, reinterpret it, reincorporate it into our present and make it known. This is the mission of the International Baroque Music Festival’, stresses the Councillor for Culture, Alice Weber.
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The fourth edition of the International Baroque Music Festival (FIMB)
The fourth edition of the Festival Internacional de Música Barroca de Inca (International Baroque Music Festival of Inca) begins on Thursday and will continue until the 3rd of April. ‘The festival continues to grow, and this year it features seven concerts by ensembles from different countries, as well as three conferences by experts in early music,’ explains Weber.
The first concert will be given by Alessandro Milesi and Bartomeu Seguí, who will offer a repertoire for portative organ and harpsichord on the 16th of February at 6 pm in Sa Quartera.
The second week of the festival will also have sa Quartera as a stage for two new concerts. On Saturday 22nd, the project ‘Corrispondenze’, by Paolo Rigano and Cinzia Guarino, the founding artistic couple of the Arianna Art Ensemble and the MusicaMente Association of Palermo, will perform as a duo a selection of pieces from the Italian and Spanish repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries. On Sunday, 23 February, the Ensemble Veneti Cantores, founded and directed by Massimo Bisson, will perform at the festival. One of its aims is to promote monody and polyphonies from medieval and modern times, with special attention to those of the Venetian area.
On 2 March, at 11 a.m., Johannes Skudlik will perform solo on the organ of the church of San Francisco. Afterwards, at dusk, Inca’s Teatro Principal will host the music and dance show ‘De Profundis Ad Astra’, performed by Magdalena Garzón and Bartomeu Seguí.
The festival continues on 15th March with the local proposal ‘Ellas y la Música’, presented by the Women’s Choir of San Francisco de Inca together with the Itaca Ensemble and the flute ensemble Jubilati. Set mainly in the 15th and 16th centuries, this is a concert in which the protagonist is the anonymous woman, with pieces that show the situation and day-to-day life of women in the Renaissance, dealing with issues such as harassment, the imposition of fate, lack of freedom and even murder. The concert will also feature pieces composed by women who challenged the status quo and ventured into the public sphere to showcase their art, such as Caterina Assandra, Vittoria Aleotti and Madalena Casulana. The concert will take place in the church of Sant Domingo at 7 pm.
The Festival closes on the 3rd of April at 7 pm, in the church of San Francisco, with the Coro del Istituto Comprensivo Alessandro Volta, conducted by Alessandro Milesi, accompanied on the organ by Bartomeu Seguí.
Finally, it should be noted that the fourth edition of the FIMB is completed with a programme of lectures, aimed at all audiences, which aims to situate the concerts programmed in their historical and artistic context. Specifically, on 13th February Joan Estrany will talk about ‘Bach in the plural’, while on 7th March Pere Estelrich will talk about the figure of Monteverdi. Likewise, on the 20th of March, Cristina Llabrés will present a conference entitled ‘Vocal art in the Renaissance and Baroque periods: a review from a female point of view’. The talks will be held in Sa Capella of the Es Convent Foundation at 7 pm.