Every year, our Musical Greenway is a journey through sundry fascinating places and equally sundry musical styles. It begins and ends at St. Eufemia’s, where we are welcomed by late-Romantic organ sounds, now massive, now piercing, merged with a soprano voice, in transcriptions from Liszt, Wolf, Reger, Fauré, and Nadia Boulanger. Then we move to the square to encounter a cheerful woodwind quintet, in equally cheerful transcriptions from Stravinsky and Offenbach, and then Debussy’s transparent and mysterious Rhapsodie for clarinet. From this point on, the journey goes all the way back: the woodwind quintet reappears on the monastery stairs, to carry us away into the brilliant moods of transcriptions from Ravel and Gustav Holst; and finally, we are back to St. Eufemia’s, where the soprano and organ program is completed.
Performers and Music
Chiesa di Sant’Eufemia
Danusha Waskiewicz, viola
Eugénie Lefebvre, soprano
Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, organ
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Orpheus, symphonic poem No. 4*
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Gebet, from Mörike-Lieder, transcribed for soprano and organ by Max Reger
Max Reger (1873-1916)
Ich sehe dich in tausend Bilder for soprano and organ, Op. 105
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
From Pelléas et Mélisande, incidental music, Op. 80, transcribed for organ by Louis Robilliard:
Prélude
Fileuse
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
Soir d’hiver (“Winter Night”) for soprano and organ*
* Transcription by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas.
Piazza Campidoglio
Alessandro Bennardo, flute
Tommaso Levi, oboe
Tomer Sharoni, clarinet
Ana Cristina Molina Aponte, horn
Samuel Schmid, bassoon
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Pulcinella, ballet suite, transcribed for wind quintet by Randa Kirschbaum
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Overture to Le voyage dans la lune (“A Trip to the Moon”), transcribed for wind quintet by Lisa Portus
Piazzetta Brenna
Tomer Sharoni, clarinet
Anna Caterina Binda, piano
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano
Scalinata di Villa Monastero
Alessandro Bennardo, flute
Tommaso Levi, oboe
Tomer Sharoni, clarinet
Ana Cristina Molina Aponte, horn
Samuel Schmid, bassoon
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
From Le Tombeau de Couperin: Prélude, transcribed for wind quintet by Mason Jones
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
From The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, transcribed for wind quintet by David Bussick
Chiesa di Sant’Eufemia
Eugénie Lefebvre, soprano
Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, organ
Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)
A nos morts ignorés (“To Our Overlooked Dead Ones”) for soprano and organ*
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
Soleils couchants (“Setting Suns”) for soprano and organ*
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
From Pelléas et Mélisande, incidental music, Op. 80, transcribed for organ by Louis Robilliard:
Sicilienne
Chanson de Mélisande, with soprano
Mort de Mélisande
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Vocalise-Étude en forme de habanera for soprano and organ*
Jehan Alain (1911-1940)
Litanies for organ
* Transcription by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas.
Useful Info:
The concert is itinerant and is held both indoors, in churches, and outdoors.
Ticket Rates:
– Full Price: € 35.00 + payment fees
– Reduced rates: see discounts
Entrance to the venue:
The ticket office opens one hour before the concert.
Admission from the access gates is allowed twenty minutes before the start of the concert.
Approximate duration of the event:
105 min + walking between music stations
In case of bad weather:
In case of bad weather, the concert will be held at the Auditorium of the Istituto Comprensivo Statale della Tremezzina in Ossuccio (see map).
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