The Concentus Moraviae 2017 international music festival of 19 towns and cities is on the theme “La Voce”. The festival concerns the theme of the human voice and singing in all its forms from chant through folk music to baroque opera and jazz. Claudio Monteverdi, whose 450th anniversary is being commemorated around the world this year, also dedicated his work to the human voice. The festival will give him special attention. The programme creator this year is Václav Luks, founder of the baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 and the vocal ensemble Collegium Vocale 1704. As part of today’s inaugural concert Cantar Lontano and the festival’s resident artist Marco Mencoboni will be performing.
In 19 towns and cities in South Moravia, the highlands and Lower Austria between 3 and 29 June 2017 there will be thirty-three concerts, at which more than a hundred vocalists will be performing. The resident artist and musical ambassador from Monteverdi’s homeland will be the Italian harpsichordist, organist, musicologist, conductor and enthusiastic promoter of 17th century music Marco Mencoboni. The artistic director of the ensemble Cantar Lontano will also present with them historic musical works and also Officum Divinum, a project following on from the historic recording by Jan Garbarek and the today no longer existing Hilliard Ensemble.
A number of artists and orchestras from the Czech Republic will also be performing. Alongside Collegia Mariana also Cappella Mariana, Czech Ensemble Baroque, the singer and harp player Hana Blažíková, Petr Mička’s Horňácká muzika and the Jiří Pospíchal quartet will demonstrate how they interweave and contrast authentic interpretations of Horňácko folk songs and Janáček’s arrangements of songs from the foothills of the White Carpathians for string quartet. In a festival dedicated to the human voice we cannot miss out on Schola gregoriana Pragensis with David Eben or Marek Štryncl’s Musica Florea or the Kantiléna choir. The closing concert will be given over once more to Claudio Monteverdi: Paying tribute to him will be the festival’s programme director Václav Luks, this time conducting his ensembles Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704. The will perform the supreme work Selva Morale et Spirituale, a monumental opus, presenting the best of Monteverdi’s art and foretelling the future development of European music.
There will be public transport to the 11 concerts available from Brno. The festival begins today, June 3 in Porta Coeli in Tišnov. Cantar Lontano and Marco Mencoboni will be performing.
More information and tickets can be found here.
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