Noels e pastorali, ultimo appuntamento per il FOS 2024

The next and final event of the Salento Organ Festival, dedicated to Christmas organ music, is scheduled for Sunday, December 15, at 7 PM at the Basilica of San Giovanni Battista al Rosario. This special concert concludes the tenth edition of the Festival with over forty itinerant concerts throughout Salento, aimed at rediscovering and playing exceptional instruments that are part of the rich organ heritage of Terra d'Otranto. The Organ and Organ Composition Class of Maestro Antonio Rizzato from the "Tito Schipa" Conservatory of Lecce will be the highlight of the concert (with free admission). Joining Rizzato, who is celebrating forty years of his musical career this year, Michele Rizzello, Mattia Zaffino, Fabio Gnoni, Carlo Chirizzi, and Matteo Cavallo will perform on the Ruffatti organ.

The program, titled "Verbum caro factum est," will feature evocative pieces from the Christmas patrimony of organ literature, French Noëls, and 17th-century pastorals, interspersed with renowned works by Antonio Vivaldi, "Concerto in A minor," Johann Sebastian Bach, "Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major" and "Prelude and Fugue in C major," Eugène Gigout, "Toccata in B minor," and other pieces. The FOS, directed by Francesco Scarcella, is organized by the J.S. Bach Institute of Musical Culture 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 under the patronage of the Province of Lecce, the Municipalities of Lecce, Andrano, Minervino, and Salve, the Tito Schipa Conservatory, the University of Salento, and the Diocese of Lecce (info: 347.6190411).