The “Brandenburg Concertos” will be performed by the Academy of Ancient Music this Friday, the 21st, at 21 pm, at the Igreja do Carmo in Tavira, as part of the 32nd edition of FIMA – Algarve International Music Festival. The festival continues, until the end of the month, with baroque, sacred and chamber music.
The Academy of Ancient Music, directed by violinist Bojan Čičić, interprets music from the Baroque and Classical periods, respecting the original interpretive standards, and will present a repertoire by Bach and Telemann, representatives of the Baroque in its final moments.
Bach's two Brandenburg concertos, which will be heard, belong to a ensemble of six, composed at the Calvinist court of Köthen. From Telemann, one of the great names of late German baroque, but already associated with the so-called “galante style”, the “Concert for Flute in E minor” and “Burlesque de Quixotte” are presented.
The FIMA program continues on Sunday, the 23rd, at 11:00 am, at the Igreja Matriz in Loulé. The “Musica Sacra de Mozart” comes through the hands and voices of the Orquestra Clássica do Sul and the Chamber Choir “Lisboa Cantat”, under the direction of Vasco Pearce de Azevedo, principal conductor and musical director of the Sinfonietta de Lisboa.
According to FIMA, the “mass”In honorem Sanctissimæ Trinitatis” and some of Mozart's most notable motets are presented as an integrated part of the Sunday liturgical celebration”.
The first concert of the “Grandes Quartets” series will take place on the 27th, at 21 pm, with the Jerusalem Quartet, at the Lagoa Municipal Auditorium. Beethoven's “String Quartet nº 00, Op. 11”, which opens this show, is the last of his intermediate phase, during which his deafness worsened.
Prokofiev will perform the “String Quartet nº 1, Op. 50”, “with classical formality but without abandoning a more contemporary language” and, by Dvorák, the “String Quartet nº 12, Op. 96”, also known as “Americano”, which “refers to Indian music and also to that of some spiritual people, which the composer absorbed after his move to the United States”.
The Jerusalem Quartet is also the protagonist of the concert on the 28th, at 21 pm, at the Pedro Ruivo Auditorium in Faro. Haydn, Debussy and Beethoven are the composers who will be performed in this show. Haydn's “String Quartet, Op. 64 nº 5”, nicknamed “A Lark” due to the evocation of singing in the initial Allegretto, opens the program, which continues with Debussy's “String Quartet in G Minor”, “where the rules of classical harmony are abandoned and the influence of Cesar Frank and his cyclic sonata becomes evident» and ends with the “String Quartet, Op. 59 nº 1”, «a work in which lyricism and careful development thematic complement each other admirably».
The month ends with “Serenades and Chamber Symphonies”, on the 30th, at 19 pm, performed by chamber groups from the Orquestra Clássica do Sul, at the Igreja da Misericórdia in Faro.
The “Serenade for Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Violin and Cello, Op. 46” by Casella, is the first proposal for the concert, which advances to the music of Gounod, an intermediary between chamber music and almost a small orchestra.
The FIMA program includes the holding of 20 concerts throughout the regional territory, between the months of March and May 2017, with the collaboration of municipalities and other entities in the Algarve for the use of the various auditoriums in the region, under the 365 Algarve programme.
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