The Cagliari Conservatory of Music is participating in Monumenti Aperti again in 2024. During the event it will be possible to attend 10 musical interventions, involving 72 students and 24 faculty members engaged in 45 compositions, 9 of which were written by students especially for this event.
The Conservatory’s musical appointments will be as follows:
- SOUND BASTION., Saturday, Oct. 26 and Sunday, Oct. 27 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Passeggiata Coperta – Galleria Dello Sperone in Piazza Costituzione; the guided tours in music will be divided into two times: in the Passeggiata Coperta you can listen to the sounds of individual instruments engaged in the interpretation of written music and improvisation; in the Galleria dello Sperone there will be electronic music interventions. On site there will be 25 students from the Conservatory, 9 of them authors of compositions written for this occasion.
- Flute Ensemble, Saturday, Oct. 26 at 12 noon at the Palazzo Regio in Independence Square; the program consists of two pieces from the Classical and Romantic periods performed by a flute trio and a flute quartet from M° Luigi Muscio’s Wind Ensemble Music Class, who will perform, respectively, the Grand Trio op.118 composed by Anton Bernhard Fürstenau (1792-1852) around 1840 and the quartet for 4 flutes in G major by François Devienne (1759-1803) probably published during the composer’s lifetime.
- Interiority and Exteriority., Sunday, Oct. 27 at 12 noon at the Palazzo Regio in Independence Square; M° Claudia Lapolla’s Chamber Music Class, who will perform the 12 Fantasies for solo flute TWV 40:2-13 by Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Duet op.75 No. 1 for flute and violin by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Three Bagatelles for flute and English horn by Edgar Girtain (1988-) and the Scherzo op. 21 by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847).
- The String Trio in the Baroque and Early Classicism Periods., Sunday, Oct. 27 at 6 p.m. at the Palazzo Regio in Independence Square; three students from Maestro Riccardo Leone’s Chamber Music Class will perform theAria sulla Bergamasca by Marco Uccellini (1603-1680), two Sonatas from op. 1 by Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), La Follia by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) and London Trio No. 1 – Hob IV:1 by Joseph Haydn (1832-1809).
- Sax Quartet, Saturday, Oct. 26 at 12 noon at the Crypt of San Domenico at 5 Via XXIV Maggio; four students from Maestro Dario Balzan’s Sax Class will perform a selection of pieces that will highlight the expressive possibilities of the saxophone, which is capable of spanning different musical genres.
- In the Name of Bach, Saturday, Oct. 26 at 5:30 p.m. at the Crypt of San Domenico on Via XXIV Maggio 5; some students of the Conservatory united by their passion for Johannes Sebastian Bach have created an ensemble that, on the occasion of Monumenti Aperti, will perform some of the composer’s solo concerts.
- Children’s Voice Choir and Young Singers., Sunday, Oct. 27 at 12 noon at the Crypt of St. Dominic at 5 Via XXIV Maggio; the Conservatory’s Choir of White Voices and Young Singers, led by Maestro Francesco Marceddu, will perform a cappella repertoire and with piano accompaniment by Varvara Kotova.
- A look at the oral tradition musics of Sardinia., Saturday, Oct. 26 and Sunday, Oct. 27 at 12 noon and 6 p.m. at the Regional Ethnographic Museum – L. Cocco Collection in the Citadel of Museums in Arsenal Square; students and teachers of the Course in Traditional Music with an ethnomusicological focus will perform two talks for both days, during which some examples of the variety of genres and instrumental and vocal forms spread across the island’s territory will be given.
- Organs and History, Saturday, Oct. 26 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at theOrgan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; students will conduct guided tours and musical examples by M° A. Castaldo’s Organ Class at the historic organ “Piacentini Battani” of 1875, recently restored by the organ store of Giuseppe Fontana of Altavilla Silentina.
Preparatory lecturers: Luigi Muscio, Claudia Lapolla, Riccardo Leone, Corrado Lepore, Dario Balzan, Francesco Marceddu, Daniele Ledda, Paolo Pastorino, Alfonso Oscar Pappalardo, Massimo Fiocchi Malaspina, Angelo Castaldo, Emilio Capalbo, Ettore Carta, Francesco Ciminiello, Roberto Migoni, Bruno Camedda, Orlando Mascia, Gigi Oliva.
Technical support: Romeo Scaccia, CPM.
Organization: Daniela Corrias, Gabriele Marangoni, Roberto Milleddu, Mario Carraro.
Coordination: Mario Frezzato – Production Office of the Conservatory.
