Thanks to the collaboration between the City of Catania Department of Culture and the two associations Musikante and Musicainsieme in Librino, our City will be able to host the national premiere of this new musical project by Giovanni Sollima, a great teacher as well as a well-known cellist and composer.
On Aug. 2 h. 8:45 p.m. at the Church of San Nicolò l'Arena in Piazza Dante, Giovanni Sollima will play for the Catania Summer Festival together with the best young people from his cello class at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, an ensemble of eight extraordinary talents who form an ensemble that enhances the powerful and fascinating sound of the cello.
The varied program aims to go to the origins, to the roots precisely, of the Western tradition by delving into its aspects related to folk and traditional music: new and ancient music transcribed for the occasion by Sollima, who together with his own pieces will perform compositions by Komitas, Purcell, Boccherini, Valentini, van Westerhout, Gismonti, and Morelenbaum.
G+8 cello power
Giovanni Sollima and the young cellists of S. Cecilia
Giovanni Sollima, cello and conducting
Francesco Angelico, Alice Mirabella
Filippo Boldrini, Christian Barraco
Federico De Zan, Luigi Visco
Ludovica Cordova, Emanuele Crucianelli
Program
ROOTS / ROOTS
Soghomon Gevorki Soghomonyan (Father Komitas) “Krunck”
Henry Purcell, Curtain on a Ground, The Cold Song, Strike The Viol
Niccoló Van Westerout (1857-1898), Romance
Luigi Boccherini, “Fandango” (arr. G.Sollima)
Macedonia/Sollima translation, “Ako Umram the Zaginam.”
Giovanni Valentini, Sonata in G minor
Trad. Salento (arr. G.Sollima), “Pizzica Indiavolata”
Giovanni Sollima, “Earth Air,” “Earth Dance.”
Pixinguinha/Jaques Morelenbaum, “Segura Ele”
Egberto Gismonti, “Czech Aderaldo.”