This year, too, the LacMus Festival has its usual promenade through monuments and outdoor venues around Lake Como, with small musical ensembles peeping out along the way. This time, besides listening to Mozart’s well-known Quartet for Oboe and Strings, K. 370, as the third leg of the tour, music lovers will be pleasantly surprised by two ensembles sporting unusual instrumentations—a flute quartet and a clarinet trio. Their performances will also form a welcome chance to discover Eugène Bozza, a lovely 20th-century French composer, whose music is seldom heard in Italy.
A church is the ideal space to welcome the low-range, austere voice of the cello. But what awaits us from the great Lucia Swarts, in this final stop on the Musical Greenway, is a concert centered on Bach’s music for both the cello and its ancestor, the gamba. Actually, during Bach’s life, the transition from the old instrument to the new had already been accomplished in Italy, while they were still existing side by side in Germany.
