The audience can enjoy the music performed on historic instruments, once widespread, today very rare, in tonight's concert "Venice in Kotor", which will be held at 20 p.m. in the Cathedral of St. Tripuna.
He announced this at yesterday's press conference Ivan Velikanov who plays the cornet and the organ, and he also talked about composers, the influence of Venetian musical culture on Kotor and Boka, introduced his colleagues and explained the authenticity of the instruments.
"These are the theorba (large lute), organ and cornet - a completely forgotten wind instrument, reconstructed at the end of the 20th century. I'm not sure, but I think that the cornet will be heard for the first time in Montenegro", announced the conductor and multi-instrumentalist.
Entrance to the concert is free, and the Kotor diocese and KotorArt are co-producers.
The concert is an announcement for the early music festival "Tollite portas", the first edition of which is planned for October this year. In addition to Velikanov, a mezzo-soprano will also perform Ian Djakov and theorba, Marina Bjelova. The repertoire includes a wide variety of works by Venetian composers from the 16th to the 18th century, among which works Monteverdi, Legrenzio, Picchini, Gabrieli, Šic, Vivaldi and other prominent creators.
Chancellor of the Kotor diocese and founder of the festival, don Robert Tonsati, he said that "Tollite portas" is the only festival dedicated to early music in Montenegro and the first and only one of its kind that will take place in the Kotor Cathedral.
"What is perhaps less known to the general public, the oldest notated musical records in Montenegro are the Kotor musical records. We want to offer the audience, primarily domestic, but also foreign, the entire range from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and early Baroque in October, in a period where there are not so many cultural events, when all the crowds fall and cultural activities in this area decrease. Through the festival, we will present a part of the heritage that is unknown. Gregorian music, Gregorianica, renaissance, early polyphony and baroque are simply rarely or almost never performed in Montenegro. This requires different expertise and different instruments," Don Tonsati announced
Ratimir Martinović, pianist, professor and director of KotorArt, pointed out that he supports the idea of establishing an early music festival in Kotor and that he considers it a culturally, historically and artistically, but also touristically significant step.
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