Lithuania Splendour: Treasures of Lithuanian Baroque Music

 

 

Sunday 24 September at 7pm

Canto Fiorito

Artistic director Rodrigo Calveyra

 

Ieva Gaidamavičiūtė, soprano

Renata Dubinskaitė, mezzosoprano

Saulė Šerytė, mezzosoprano

Algirdas Bagdonavičius, tenor

Nerijus Masevičius, bass

Ieva Baublytė, recorders

Rodrigo Calvyera, cornetto, recorders

Josué Meléndez Peláez, cornetto, recorders

Davide Pozzi, organ

 

 

Lithuania Splendour presents the best examples of Lithuanian baroque music production and practice. Giovanni Battista Cocciola was an Italian composer, working in Vilnius as a Kapellmeister at Leonas Sapiega’s court in the beginning of the XVII century. Although most of Cocciola’s work is lost, the collection of surviving sacred pieces shows he was an exquisite composer. Works from the Braunsberg Tablature are also present in the programme, since it was an organ book written in the beginning of the XVII century at Braunsberg Jesuit Collegium, which belonged to Lithuanian Jesuit Province and had tight connections with Vilnius University. Pieces by Orlando di Lasso and Giovanni Gabrieli are performed with the original divisions from this organ tablature. Finally, programme presents composers who worked for the king of the Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth Sigismund III Vasa, such as Tarquinio Merula, Diomedes Cato and Bartlomiej Pekiel. The court used to travel regularly from Warsaw to Vilnius with its musicians, who were a part of the Lithuanian music scene. This program recreates the musical atmosphere of Lithuania in the beginning of the XVII century, performed with its most important surviving historical organ.

 

 

Programme

 

 

Giovanni Battista Cocciola, Ave Sanctissima Maria

                                   

Andrzej Rohaczewski, Canzon a 4

                                               

Giovanni Battista Cocciola, Deus, Deus Meus 

                                   

Tarquinio Merula, Canzona “La treccha”
         

Giovanni Battista Cocciola, Ave Verum Corpus

 

Diomedes Cato, Canzona Diomedis

 

Bartlomiej Pekiel, Dulcis amor Jesu

           

Braunsberg Tablature/Giovanni Gabrieli, Fuga France

 

Braunsberg Tablature / Orlando di Lasso, Bonjour mon cœur                       

 

Giovanni Battista Cocciola, Ave Mundi Spes Maria

 

Tarquinio Merula, Sonata Cromatica per Organo

           

Tarquinio Merula, Ciaccona

           

Giovanni Battista Cocciola, Jubilate Deo                        

 

Tarquinio Merula, Folle e ben che si crede 

(5 parts version by R. Calveyra)