2024-04-20 13:52:18
TRENTO. Even the poignant melodies of Portuguese fado they will resonate this year among the peaks of Trentino alongside world music and the classical repertoire, songwriting, jazz and meetings in which notes blend with literature.
The Festival “The Sounds of the Dolomites” returns from 28 August to 29 September with 18 concerts for a month of emotions in the Highlands among breathtaking natural scenery in the company of the artists to share the pleasure of walking to discover a new way of enjoying music.
“The Festival brings happiness. If I think back to the first concert at the Rifugio Brentei I still get emotional. We had clear ideas and the imprint has remained unchanged: the value of the limit and respect for the mountains”, he says Chiara Bassetticreator 29 years ago with Paolo Manfrini of these particular musical events.
Mario Brunelloartistic director of the event for years now, will be one of the great protagonists of the program in which Roberto Vecchioni, the writer Paolo Cognetti, the French jazz double bass player Renaud Garcia-Fons, the Armenian Gurdjieff Ensemble stand out with sounds that refer to Sufi mysticism.
“It’s high music in high places – says Brunello – the Dolomites cannot be measured in depth. We must accept them as they are and enter into symbiosis. Here is the space that must be filled with sounds and reach the ear”.
And the trek to admire the sunrise at high altitude while listening to the instruments outdoors, without the acoustics of the concert hall, is the truest and most intimate experience of the event. It starts on August 28th at Malga Tassulla, Pian della Nana, Brenta Dolomites, with Carminho, one of the most talented young fado stars. Then, at Malga Canvere, in Val di Fiemme, classical music with “I Violoncelli del Mozarteum”, conducted by Giovanni Gnocchi; at 2,200 meters of Località Tresca, in Val di Fiemme, the comic-theatrical verve of the wind and percussion group Bandakadabra.
Music and literature during the trekking days from 4 to 6 September in the Pale di San Martino, in which Paolo Cognetti, winner of the Strega Award for The Eight Mountains, will talk about the American Badlands and the songs of Dylan, Springsteen and other stars and stripes myths, with Mario Brunello and his son Pietro, vocals and guitar.
More classical music, in Col Bel, in Val di Fassa, with the violin and viola duo of Clarissa Bevilacqua and Vika Powell; in Prà Castròn di Flavona, the Camerata Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam will greet the sunrise; at Malga Vallesinella Alta the four instrument-voices of the Apulian group Faraualla. At Villa Welsperg, at the foot of the Pale di San Martino, homage to Giacomo Puccini with the soprano Lana Kos, the tenor Raffaele Abete and I Solisti di Verona. On the 14th the Bombasél Lakes, in Val di Fiemme, will welcome the French Arod Quartet with pieces by Haydn and Schumann.
For the songwriting, the Irish Foy Vance, the Italian pianist and singer-songwriter Raphael Gualazzi and Paolo Conte Legacy will perform. Music and spirituality near the Roda di Vael refuge, in the Fassa Dolomites, with the Gurdjieff Ensemble. For jazz, looking at the altarpieces of San Martino, the protagonist is the ‘Paganini of the double bass’, Renaud Garcia-Fons in trio. At Camp Centener, above Madonna di Campiglio, there will be Sarah Willis, first horn of the Berliner Philhamoniker, in the mix of Mozart and Cuba with the Sarahbanda group. Grand finale with Roberto Vecchioni, on 29 September near the Micheluzzi Refuge in Val Duròn, above Campitello di Fassa, with the violinist Lucio Fabbri and the guitarist Massimo Germini.
Four concerts of the Festival will also be made accessible to people with motor and hearing disabilities thanks to the use of inclusive vehicles and bikes and audio-tactile systems. Even the choice of the less crowded period at the end of summer in the intentions of the operators in the region points to an idea of tourism “that moves from attracting people to the desire to want people to live a special experience in the valleys, not only as holiday places but of life”.
2024-04-20 13:52:18