Canto Fiorito to perfom at Brighton Early Music Festival (Nov 4)
Lithuania based early music ensemble Canto Fiorito and Musica Antiqua Salzburg from Austria will perform a program The Hanseatic Way: A Musical Journey Through a Shared Past of XVI-XVII c.c. music at prestigious Brighton Early Music Festival on Sunday, 4 November, 7.30 pm, at St Martin's Church, BN2 3HQ 4 .
The audience will be invited to a genuine musical trip, where the most famous and emblematic composers from the Hanseatic countries are put together in a geographic and chronological order, starting in England, passing through Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia, Poland and finally reaching the Baltics. The chosen period corresponds to the climax and decline of the League in the late XVI and early XVII c.c. The programme presents some of the pearls of renaissance polyphonic music, represented by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Orlando di Lasso and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck; jewels of the seconda prattica, such as Heinrich Schütz, Bartlomiej Pękiel and Tarquinio Merula, and not forgetting the Venetian poly-choral tradition in the music of Hieronymus Praetorius and Giovanni Battista Cocciola. Most of the pieces in the programme are vocal, performed by either four or five singers, who are accompanied not only by basso continuo played on organ, but also by cornettos and sackbuts – historical wind instruments that were used to accompany or replace voices in the XVI-XVII c.c.
Apart from the concert, educational activities are planned. Rodrigo Calveyra, the artistic director of the project, will introduce the history of the Hanseatic league and the musical culture that flowed along the trade routes in the form of an illustrative talk “Before the EU: The Hanseatic Way” on Saturday, 3 November, 1 pm at Friends' Meeting House, BN1 1AF. A free pop-up performance by Canto Fiorito and Musica Antiqua Salzburg is scheduled at 10.30am at the BA i360 Tower on Sunday, 4 November.
A video film compiled from historical images of Hanseatic cities and artworks by children inspired by the respective images that were selected through international competition will be screened. The film will include artworks from the Lithuanian school Bite, London, and Lithuanian education studio Jura, Portsmouth.
The Hanseatic Way: A Musical Journey Through a Shared Past is a musical and educational project, jointly implemented by the early music ensembles Canto Fiorito (Lithuania) and Musica Antiqua Salzburg (Austria) and ERP Music management company (Estonia). The project is supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and the Lithuanian Council for Culture, and is granted “2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage” label.
The concert will streamed through the application ERP Live: http://live.erpmusic.com/ available here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=erp.name.videoenabledwebview
For more information, please read: www.hanseaticway.eu; www.cantofiorito.lt;
Venue: St Martin’s Church, Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 3HQ
Tickets: £5–£28, https://www.bremf.org.uk
