DUBROVNIK International Early Music Festival
16 - 24 September 2008 

Wednesday, 17 September

Rector's Palace at 9 pm

ENSEMBLE CORONA (Netherlands)

“Se voi non ridete ... “ If you don't laugh... (we will pay the wine!)
Music around Niccolò Machiavelli

Emotions: this is what Corona manages to produce with its non-dogmatic and humour-filled interpretations of music prior to 1600. Its passionate musicians use stringed instruments, voice, recorders, cornetto and percussion, and a good dose of improvisation, resulting in an imaginative style.

Their shows, which also include a combination of theatrical and narrative elements, guarantee to be a treat for the eye and ear, and to touch the heart of the audience as well.

Programme:   Songs by Verdelot, Isaac, Festa; Texts by Niccolò MACHIAVELLI

Rector's Palace at 9 pm

Concert:

ENSEMBLE RESPONSORIUM (Croatia)

“Vaghe Ninfe e Tritoni”: baroque music from Dalmatia, Istria and Italy

Responsorium performs vocal and instrumental pieces of the 16th and early 17th century, with prominence given to the revitalisation of Croatian baroque musical literature. The ensemble follows the principle of authentic and historically informed interpretation of early music.

Programme: Songs by Puliti, Cecchini, Romano, Comnen, Frescobaldi, Monteverdi, Melli

Rector's Palace at 9 pm

EARLY OPERA COMPANY (UK)

Handel's arias

Christian Curnyn, conductor
Iestyn Davies, countertenor

The Early Opera Company is a vibrant, young professional ensemble. Founded in 1994, they are Britain’s foremost specialists of baroque opera. The ensemble is well known for their productions of baroque operas by Handel (Agrippina, Serse, Ariodante, Acis and Galatea, Orlando, Partenope, Alcina, Flavio, Amadigi), which they have performed at British festivals (Covent Garden, South Bank Centre Early Music, Cheltenham, Iford) and internationally.

Iestyn Davies is one of the leading British countertenors of his generation. His performances of Handel, as well as Monteverdi, Vivaldi and Bach are acclaimed, both on the opera stage and on record.

Programme: Handel: opera and oratorio arias

Rector's Palace at 9 pm

INGRID HALLER, soprano (Croatia)

ISTVAN KONYA, lute (Hungary)

Programme: Baroque songs with lute

Rector's Palace at 9 pm

ENSEMBLE DE CAELIS (France)

Voyage through Medieval Spain

De Caelis is a female voices ensemble that specialises in “a capella” performance of medieval music. They work with musicologists, linguists

and historians in order to explore this repertoire. They like to experiment with voice sounds and improvisation, which leads them to work with contemporary composers on creating new music based on ancient texts.

Programme: Excerpts from the Manuscript of the Monasteries of Huelgas, Burgos (12^th c.)

Excerpts from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat (14^th c.).

GUERRERO: Canciones y villanescas spirituales (16^th c.)

Rector's Palace at 9 pm

APOLLO ENSEMBLE (Netherlands)

Baroque masters

The Apollo Ensemble, founded in 1992, plays on authentic instruments, which does not mean they play “museum music”; on the contrary they make the music alive and play with repertoires, colours, sounds and instruments. Apollo is the Greek Sun god who was surrounded by the muses, the goddesses of Art and Science: the Apollo Ensemble brings together art and science in all their projects. Most of all, they like to explore the boundaries of together and the interaction between individual musicians.

Programme:  

Bach: Quintet in C opus 11, No1

Vivaldi: Trio in a moll RV86 (Recorder, bassoon, harpsichord); Concerto „del Giardinello“ RV90

Telemann: Sonata h moll (Violin, viola, harpsichord)

Zelenka: Sonate III in Bes ZWV 181, 3 (Violin, oboe, bassoon, harpsichord)

Rebel: Les Plaisirs Champêtres



TICKET INFORMATION
Price: 100 kunas
Tickets are available on the door at the Rector's Palace from 20:00. For more information or to book tickets in advance, please contact info@illyria.hr or call +385 (0)989437962.