La "Messe pour les Paroisses" di Couperin live concert per il Fos 2024
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Exceptional event for the Organ Festival of Salento, on the occasion of the 40-year career of Maestro Antonio Rizzato. On Saturday, October 12, in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Lecce (at 8:30 pm), the vocal group Viri Cantores de Finibus Terrae directed by Giuseppe Lattante will perform François Couperin's Messa pour les Paroisses (1690) in the ancient rite, accompanied by the Ruffatti Organ played by Maestro Rizzato. The evening will be introduced by the musicologist Fabiola Carlino.
A young organist, Antonio Rizzato has gained the attention of critics by presenting diverse programs in the most important national and international festivals in Italy, England, Spain, and France. Since winning first prize at the National Organ Competition "E. Porrino" in Cagliari in 1986, Rizzato has had an intense concert and teaching career, teaching Organ and Organ Composition at conservatories in Monopoli, Matera, and Lecce. He is the titular organist at the San Francesco dei Frati Minori Convent in Lequile, and has been a collaborator organist with the Salento Madrigal Group since 1992. He has also published a work titled "The Organ Pedal."
For his forty-year career, Maestro wanted to bring back the famous Couperin's Mass to Lecce, 38 years after its first performance by Father Anselmo Susca in the Church of Santa Maria della Grazia. A French organ masterpiece, the "Messe pour les paroisses" alternates the organ with Gregorian chant, following the alternatim technique. It is an opportunity to rediscover the spirituality of sacred music and the ancient charm of Gregorian chant. The concert will include the Introitus, Kyrie, Gloria, Offertory, Sanctus and Benedictus, Pater Noster, Agnus Dei, Communio, and Finale.
The male vocal ensemble Viri Cantores de Finibus Terrae, composed of non-professional singers, formed under the shadow of the Benedictine monastery of San Giovanni Evangelista in Lecce, has been dedicated for years to the recovery, enhancement, and dissemination of Gregorian chant through intense concert activities in Salento and various cities in Italy. The director and founder of the vocal group is Giuseppe Lattante. Trained as a pianist and skilled lecturer, Lattante has published several essays on topics of musicological analysis and research, including a recent volume dedicated to Gregorian chant (De Gregoriano. Historical-musical features of Gregorian chant, 2023).
The concert, with free entry, is part of the tenth edition of the FOS, directed by Francesco Scarcella and organized by the J.S. Bach Music Culture Institute of Tricase, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Puglia Region, in agreement with the Superintendency for the provinces of Brindisi and Lecce and with the support of the Province of Lecce, the Municipalities of Lecce, Andrano, Minervino, and Salve, Tito Schipa Conservatory, the University of Salento, and the Dioceses of Lecce (info: 3476190411).
City: Lecce (Lecce)
Venue: Via Umberto 1
8:30 pm
free entry
Info. 347.6190411
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