There is something unknowable and at the same time familiar about a piece of music. Like in a mystery to be deciphered. Marcello Fera presents with this programme his new CD Piccoli Arcani
(Small Arcana)

Music by
Marcello Fera
 

50 composers in one programme, each represented by a piece of just over or just under one minute. Each composition a poetic world

Rameau, J.S.Bach, Haydn,Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Czerny, Rossini, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, Verdi, Wagner, Saint-Saëns, Gounod, Massenet, Chabrier, Tchaikovsky, Fauré, Grieg, Bizet, Godowsky, Scriabin, De Falla, Debussy, Milhaud, Gershwin, Ravel, Strawinsky, Puccini, Poulenc, Hindemith, Prokofiev, Messiaen, Stockhausen, Françaix, Young, Castiglioni, Feldman, Villa-Lobos, Castaldi, Ligeti, Cage, Berio, Adams, Canino, Sciarrino, Lucchetti, Crumb

Philipp Lamprecht makes a musical excursus through texts and music from and related to the Nibelungenlied (13th century)

in collaboration with Merano Arte and the Merano Academy for the exhibition I M A G I N E W O R L D S as part of the initiative NIBELUNGEN: die Rückkehr - the returnPilipp Lamprecht - voce e organo portativo medioevale

Beyond the surface of appearance, verse retains something of the poetry that surrounds and inhabits us. We know it and therefore re-know it expressed in words. In this concert, the poetics of Tormis' music and the setting to music of Roberta Dapunt's poetry

Ottorino Respighi: Antiche arie e danze per liuto – Terza suite
Traditional (arr. M.Fera): Levar di tavola
Velijo Tormis: Melancholy Songs  (italian premiere)
Marcello Fera : Della carne e della lingua, five songs on lyrics by Roberta Dapunt  (italian premiere)

a portrait of two extraordinary artists, told in word and music

Joaquín Turina: Círculo Op. 91

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Trio in D Minor, Op. 11

The Nibelungen manuscripts found just a stone's throw from Italy, Wagner's visit to Rossini, who as a boy was known as 'the little German'; or the strange entanglements between Nordic myths and the Mediterranean

G. Rossini: Il signor Bruschino - Ouverture
W.A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Ouverture
E.T.A. Hoffmann: Das Kreuz an der Ostsee – Ouverture
R. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
G. Rossini: Guillaume Tell - Ouverture

Il Canto di Circe
Music by Claudio Lugo
from Cantus Circaeus by Giordano Bruno. First performance (commissioned by the Festival)
in addition, pieces by Claudio Monteverdi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giulio Caccini, Marcello Fera

Music for a special audience, half an hour of concert time, a duration suitable for children under 4 and their parents. Families will have a changing room at their disposal, a dedicated parking space for prams, and, for the little ones, the opportunity to move freely in the hall, clap their hands, give free rein to their emotions without fear of disturbing anyone, and certainly... scream with joy! 
On the programme is music reflecting the scents and flavours of the Mediterranean, elaborated by the creative hand of Nicola Segatta. Duration: 35 minutes

Music for a special audience, half an hour of concert time, a duration suitable for children under 4 and their parents. Families will have a changing room at their disposal, a dedicated parking space for prams, and, for the little ones, the opportunity to move freely in the hall, clap their hands, give free rein to their emotions without fear of disturbing anyone, and certainly... scream with joy! 
On the programme is music reflecting the scents and flavours of the Mediterranean, elaborated by the creative hand of Nicola Segatta. Duration: 35 minutes

The worlds of childhood
I. Stravinsky - Eight miniatures for instruments (version for strings by M. Fera)
Anonymous - Symphony of Toys
W.A.Mozart - Galimathias Musicum
M.Ravel - Ma mère l'oye. Five children's pieces inspired by the tales of Perrault, Madame d'Aulnoy and Madame Leprince de Beaumont. (version for strings by M. Fera)

Tierkreis/Zodiac
by Karlheinz Stockhausen
A performance by I Burattini di Luciano Gottardi

Dedicated to Christian Martinelli
Shigeru Umebayashi - Yumeji's theme and Icaros of the Shipibo people (Amazonia) for Christian Martinelli with a video projection of his works by Marcello Fera and Andrea Pizzini
W.A.Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major K 414
I. Strawinsky - Pulcinella, suite for orchestra

Performance by Conductus musicians in front of the works in the exhibition incontrare Christian Martinelli begegnen

Duration: 30 min