Reinoud van Mechelen
Reinoud van Mechelen
Julie Roset
Julie Roset
Les Cornets Noirs
Les Cornets Noirs
Ryo Terakado
Ryo Terakado

VI INTERNATIONAL KRETINGA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

 

 

Dear Public,

 

This edition of KIEMF is again crowded with stars!

 

This year’s festival will be opened by the fantastic tenor Reinoud van Mechelen and baroque flute player Anna Besson with their ensemble A Nocte Temporis, performing the most beautiful pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach for tenor, flute and continuo. Host ensemble Canto Fiorito with mezzo-soprano Renata Dubinskaite will perform an exquisite program of Roman music from the beginning of the 17th century. Following, the angelical voice of Julie Roset, the winner of this year’s Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition, will be heard for the first time in Lithuania, in a recital of English, German, French and Italian sacred music.

 

At the second part of the festival, Les Cornets Noirs, one of the world references of its kind is coming again to Kretinga, led by the cornetto player Frithjof Smith, this time to perform 17th century polychoral Venetian instrumental music for 4 cornetti, 6 sackbuts and of course the emblematic organ of Kretinga’s church, in an extraordinary reunion of some of the finest musicians of this field. The organ recital of this year will be performed by the great Jean-Marc Aymes, with a program dedicated to the three most dominant Italian styles of early seicento: Venice, Rome and Naples. And to conclude this year’s edition, the outstanding Ryo Terakado will charm us with his virtuosity in a baroque violin recital, performing Austrian and North German music from the late 17th century.

 

Once again, we are honored to host this constellation of such bright stars and proud to offer these concerts with free entrance to the Lithuanian public.

 

Rodrigo Calveyra

Artistic director of International Kretinga Early Music Festival

 


PROGRAM

 

12-28 August, 2022

Kretinga Franciscan church

 

12 August 2022, 7 p.m. Kretinga Franciscan church
A Nocte Temporis (Belgium)
Artistic director Reinoud van Mechelen, tenor (Belgium)
Anna Besson (baroque flute), Mathilde Wolfs (baroque cello), Maude Gratton (organ/harpsichord)
Erbarme dich. Excerpts from J.S.Bach cantatas for tenor, flute and basso continuo

 

15 August 2022, 7 p.m. Kretinga Franciscan church

Canto Fiorito (Lithuania)
Artistic director Rodrigo Calveyra, cornetto (Brazil/France)
Renata Dubinskaitė, (mezzo-soprano), Josue Melendez (cornetto), Marco Testori (baroque cello), Davide Pozzi (organ)
RomAmoR

 

16 August 2022, 7 p.m. Kretinga Franciscan church

Recital of Julie Roset, soprano (France)
Davide Pozzi, organ (Italy)
Voce Celeste

 

24 August 2022, 7 p.m. Kretinga Franciscan church

Les Cornets Noirs (Switzerland)
Artistic director Frithjof Smith, cornetto (Switzerland)
Josué Melendez, Adrien Mabire, Rodrigo Calveyra (cornettos),

Simen van Mechelen, Hennig Wiegräbe, Miguel Tantos Sevillano, Alexis Lahens (sackbuts),

Joost Swinkels, Wim Becu (bass sackbuts), Filip Hruby (organ)
Musiche Veneziane. Polychoral Musik from S. Mark’s

 

26 August 2022, 7 p.m. Kretinga Franciscan church

Organ solo recital of Jean-Marc Aymes, organ (France)
Venezia, Napoli e Roma nel primo seicento

 

28 August 2022, 7 p.m. Kretinga Franciscan church

Recital of Ryo Terakado, baroque violin (Japan/Belgium)
Bart Rodyns, organ (Belgium)
The Violin virtuosos in Austria and Northern Germany in late 17th century


 

 

 

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