About 1000 people attended, in the Sé and Carmo churches, the four concerts of the Festival de Organ de Faro, announced the organization of what is already one of the most important festivals of its kind in Europe.
Hungarian-Dutch musician Gyula Szilágyi brought the Faro a program, with the special curiosity of the “Nightingale” from the Órgão da Sé.
This was followed by João Santos, who treated the audience with the contrast of sonatas, pasacalles, costumes, fugues, toccatas and battles at the Órgão do Carmo.
Chamber music also had its space at Carmo, with Carina Lash on organ and Pedro Santos on recorder, who greatly excited the audience with their duets.
Closing the poster, the prestigious José L. González Uriol, who presented a brilliant program that covered the biography of the Sé organ.
The donations for the concerts at the Igreja da Sé reverted in full to support the Portuguese Cerebral Palsy Association of Faro and the Algarve Association of Parents and Friends of Mentally Diminished Children.
The V Organ Festival – Faro 2011 was organized by Associação Cultural Música XXI, in partnership with the Municipality of Faro and the Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve. Given the quality of previous editions, this year the Cultural Interest of the initiative was recognized by the Hon. Mr. Secretary of State for Culture.
It was supported by the Allgarve Program and the Hotel Santa Maria. The communication partners were the newspaper “barlavento”, DigitalmaisTV and Rádio “RUA FM”.
All concerts were broadcast live over the Internet on the websites www.acmusicaxxi.com e www.digitalmaistv.com. Recordings of all concerts are available on DVD for sale to interested parties (contact 916 782 783, [email protected]).
For 2012, Associação Música XXI hopes to have the necessary support to continue the event.
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