24th Early Music Festival Banchetto Musicale: Sounds from the East and the West
Sacred Bridges: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Psalm Settings from the 16th & 17th centuries
Ensemble Sarband | Turkey
Director Vladimir Ivanoff - percussion, lute
Mustafa Doğan Dikmen – voice, ney, percussion
Celaleddin Biçer – ney, kanun
Salah Eddin Maraqa – kanun
Uǧur Işık – ajyaklı keman
Metin Erkuş – whirling dervish
Brevis Choir and Consort | Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Sweden
Directors Gintautas Venislovas and Darius Stabinskas
Project and musical director Vladimir Ivanoff | Bulgaria/Germany
Psalms expressing man’s lament and joy, confessions of sin, songs of praise and glory were heard in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities alike. The joint programme of Turkish and European musicians continues the tradition of these “sacred bridges” between different religions, seeking to reveal the historic links from the Baroque era in psalms. And there have been numerous such links in the past – the Jew Salamone Rossi created polyphonic compositions based on psalm texts in Italy, and in Istanbul the Pole Wojciech Bobowski, going by the name Alî Ufkî, tried to create a Muslim-Calvinist alliance, transforming Protestant psalms into Ottoman-Turkish music, and so on. In the programme, the polyphonic Western Baroque works blended with Oriental lyricism and monophony serve as unique historical testimony and create an extraordinary event – uniting peoples, nations and religions.
http://www.sarband.de/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feNJINHEqq8
Tickets: Lt20, Lt30, Lt40, Lt50 Lt / Eur 5,79, Eur 8,69, Eur 11,58, Eur 14,48
Tickets are available at the box offices of the Museum and National Ticketing Office BILIETAI LT (additional charges apply)
Concessions and discounts:
„Daily Card“ holders receive 30% discount per single ticket;
Students, pupils and Lithuanian pensioners receive 50% discount per single ticket (not applicable to top price tickets).