The 15th edition of Spello Splendens, Festival of Christmas, Medieval and Traditional Music, organised by the Centro Studi Europeo di Musica Medievale ‘Adolfo Broegg’ of Spello and curated by the Associazione Musicale Micrologus, will be held from 3 to 6 January 2025.
The concerts will take place in the Teatro Subasio, the Church of Sant'Andrea, the Sala dell'Editto of the Palazzo Comunale and the Auditorium of the Centro Studi ‘Adolfo Broegg’ in Spello.
The Festival invites visitors to rediscover the beauty of particular music, little known but very important for the Christmas celebration, through concerts of Medieval and Traditional music. In addition, it is intended to highlight the sounds of ancient instruments, once well known, that are now slowly but steadily being revived in use: bagpipes, ciaramelle and bagpipes, which during Christmas played an important role in announcing the Rite and the Feast, together with many other musical instruments that are now being rediscovered.
The opening concert, on 3 January, will feature Enerbia, with their traditional music from the Apennines of the Four Provinces and their extraordinary and typical instruments: the Piffero and the Musa.
On 4 January, ‘Zampogne e Lenticchie’, a free gathering of musicians, to renew the tradition of propitiatory offerings of food, with three guest appearances: singer-songwriter Piero Brega and multi-instrumentalist Oretta Orengo, with their repertoire of reworked traditional songs; the ancient and powerful wind instruments of the Alta Musicanti Potestatis, a young group from Umbria; the Serrapede Duo, with the enthralling rhythms of the reed-pipe between Cilento and Lucania. In the evening, from Campania, Le Zampogne di Daltrocanto, led by the researcher and journalist Antonio Giordano, to rediscover Christmas songs, sonatas and their typical tarantellas.
Micrologus will be in concert on 5 January, with a special medieval programme: ‘The Book of Creatures’ - Nature and the Divine, amidst refined polyphonies and spiritual pieces that will guide us into the spiritus mundi, the universal spirit that connects all living beings and the natural world.
It will close on 6 January, with a concert-travel on the mystery of the Three Kings, with I Trobadores.
The concerts will all be free admission.
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