Sunday, September 15, 20:00
Hadjinikos Hall
PELLEGRINAGGIO AL LEVANTE
a pilgrimage from Sicily to Instabul
through the centuries
accompanied by the music
and the stories of the people.
The programme Pellegrinaggio al levante includes songs and music from all along the route from Sicily to Constantinople, covering the period from the Renaissance to the 18th century. The main body of the programme consists of songs from the “folk” tradition of the region, but also of compositions by famous composers of the aforementioned period. In this musical journey the audience will have the opportunity to listen to tarantellas from Puglia and Naples, compositions by composers such as Stefano Landi and Barbara Strozzi from Rome and Venice, Jewish Romance and Sephardic songs from Epirus and Thessaloniki as well as traditional songs in Greek from the wider region of Macedonia and Thrace. The final stop of the journey is Istanbul with scholarly compositions from the region of Fanari, but also Ottoman and Byzantine melodies.
The Pellegrinaggio al levante Ensemble consists of:
Mariangela Hadjistamatiou, soprano
Vassilis Agrokostas, singing/lyra
Nikos Panagiotidis, laffta/theorbo/music direction
Nikolas Mylonas, percussion
Jörg Meder, viola da gamba
