Concert “To the Ruler of Diminution Sigismund Vasa”

Joint project of ensembles “Canto Fiorito” and “La Justa”

Renata Dubinskaitė (mezzo-soprano) 
Rodrigo Calveyra, Josué Melendez (zinc) 
Miguel Tantos Sevillano, Laura Agut (baroque trombones) 
Fabio de Cataldo (bass baroque trombone)
Maria Morozova (organ, harpsichord) 

 

At the turn of the 16th-17th century, a very interesting practice of music performance existed, the essence of which was to improvise to the recorded music by adding peculiar fioritures or ornaments. In Spain, such ornaments were called glosses, in England - divisions, and in the forerunner of this practice, Italy - diminutives. Many composers of the time wrote and published books with examples of these diminutives and explanations of how they should sound. Among the most important treatises published at that time were publications by Silvestro Ganassi, Diego Ortiz, Girolamo Dalla Casa, Giovanni Bassano, Giovanni Battista Bovicelli and Francesco Rognoni. 
 

F. Rognoni dedicated the work “Selva di Varii Passaggi” (published in Milan in 1620) to the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund Vasa, naming the ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as the Holy Royal Majesty of Poland (Alla Sacra Maestà del Re di Polonia) on the title page of the publication.
 

This book is especially important for today’s music performance practice, as it is one of the few books published in the 17th century (many of them were published in the second half of the 16th century) and helps to understand the development of these diminutives and the true “new style”, called seconda pratica in Italian. 
 

The programme includes works by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Giovanni Paolo Cima, Simone Vesi, Orazio Tarditi and Tarquinio Merula with improvised and written diminutives based on F. Rognoni “Selva di Varii Passaggi”, as well as some works by F. Rognoni.  

Tickets - 10, 15, 20 Eur (service charges apply)

Discounts for students, seniors and people with disabilities apply.

Please do not bring preschool children to the concert. We invite families with preschool children to educational activities at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania.