Arvo Pärt’s music festival Diario dell’Anima – ommagio ad Arvo Pärt is held from January 22 to February 2 2010 in Rome and Bologna, Italy. The festival includes several performances of new versions of works by Arvo Pärt.
The festival starts on January 22 with a concert in rather unusual concert place – in homeless shelter at Roma Termini train station, the concert is reserved. A new version of Zwei Wiegenlieder for soprano, four violas and four cellos, Summa for violin, two violas and cello, L’abbé Agathon for soprano, four violas and four cellos, Fratres for four percussionists (arranged by Vambola Krigul) and Es sang von langen Jahren for soprano, violin and viola will be performed. Performers are soprano Arianna Savall and Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble, conductor is Tõnu Kaljuste. An open concert with the same program will be held on January 23 in Parco della Musica Roma, where additionally Arvo Pärt’s works Scala cromatica, Mozart-Adagio, as well as a new version for bass flute and piano of Spiegel im Spiegel will be played. The concert is repeated on January 29 in Bologna.
Orchestra and choir of Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under conducting of Tõnu Kaljuste will continue the festival on January 27 with a concert centering the Italian premiere of Symphony No. 4 Los Angeles. Additionally, Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, Passacaglia, Wallfahrtslied, Orient & Occident and Da Pacem Domine will be performed.
Paul Hillier and his Theatre of Voices will perform Stabat Mater and Missa syllabica in a new version of vocal ensemble and string quartet on January 28 in Bologna and January 29 in Rome. The closing concert of the festival is held on February 2 by Tallis Scholars choir in Aula Magna of University La Sapienza in Rome, the concert includes performances of three works: Nunc dimittis, Magnificat and 7 Magnificat-Antiphonen.
The festival is organized by Fondazione Musica per Roma and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti and Accademia Filarmonica.
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