Festival für Alte Musik Knechtsteden - Schlosskonzert La Lira Del Ciel

In the organizer's words:

Naples experienced its first musical heyday when composers such as Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Ascanio Mayone and Gregorio Strozzi - all virtuoso harpists - worked at the court of the Spanish viceroys at the beginning of the 17th century. It was during this period that the arpa doppia, a chromatic harp with two or three parallel rows of strings, was developed and opened up new, unimagined possibilities. None other than Claudio Monteverdi composed the first obbligato part for this instrument in his groundbreaking opera Orfeo.

The tarantella, the Neapolitan folk dance that expels the poison of the tarantula from the body with ecstatic movements, is also a must for la lira del ciel. In their program with a mixture of exuberant Italian temperament, almost ethereal sounds and down-to-earth folksiness, Elisabeth and Johanna Seitz trace the triumphal march of the baroque harp and salterio from the alleyways of Naples to the New World.

Concert with interval. Ends around 21:45.

Program:

Giovanni Lorenzo Baldano (1576-1660)
Paso e Mezo & Gagliarda

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (ca. 1580-1651)
Toccata in G minor
Apeggiata

Carlo Farina (before 1600-1639)
Brando 4, 6 and 8

Ascanio Mayone (1565-1627)
Toccata quarta

Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (ca. 1626-1677)
Espagnoletas (1677)
El Gran Duque & Baylete

Vicente Adan (before 1758-1732)
Fandango para Salterio
Divertimento para Salterio

Santiago de Murcia (ca. 1682-1732)
Follia italiana

Anonymous (ca. 1700)
Fandango de Cadiz

Bartholomeo de Selma y Salaverde (ca. 1595- after 1638)
Canzona

Gregorio Strozzi (1615- ca. 1687)
Maschara Sonata & Paradetas

Luigi Rossi
Passacaille

Andrea Falconiero (1585-1656)
Soave melodia y su Corrente

Bartolomeo Montalban (ca. 1595-1651)
Sinfonia "geloso"

Anonymous (ca. 1700)
Tarantula

Price information:

27€ / reduced price 19€ / listening seats 15€ plus advance booking fee