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Concert Programme

 

Introduction

Coro Facoltà di Musicologia, conducted by Margherita Bellini

  • Ettore Desderi (1892-1974), Tenebrae factae sunt
  • James MacMillan (*1959), O Radiant Dawn

 

Sounds from the Past

Stefan Hagel and Kamila Wysłucha

Stefan performs on a recostructed kithara, on replicas of Meroë and Pompeii auloi and on a replica of an ancient side-flute (plagiaulos); Kamila performs on a replica of the Louvre aulos.                                                             

  1. Exercises on the side-flute from an ancient school-book (DAGM 32–37; Stefan Hagel)
  2. Mesomedes, Invocation to the Muse and Hymn to the Sun (DAGM 24 and 27; voice and kithara: Stefan Hagel; aulos: Kamila Wysłucha)     
  3. Improvisation on the Meroë auloi (Stefan Hagel)
  4. Oxyrhynchus Hymn (DAGM 59; voice and kithara: Stefan Hagel) 
  5. Seikilos Song (DAGM 23; accompaniment on the Pompeii auloi: Stefan Hagel; voice: Rosa Fragorapti)
  6. Improvisation on the Pompeian and Louvre auloi (synaulia: Stefan Hagel and Kamila Wysłucha)

 

Lotos Lab: Barnaby Brown and Rosa Fragorapti

Rosa plays a 7-string lyre by Nikolaus Brass reconstructed after fragments from the 5th-century BC. Barnaby plays doublepipes by Marco Sciascia reconstructed after originals in Paestum (c.480 BC) and Torino Museo Egizio (c.1500 BC), and by Thomas Rezanka reconstructed after an original in the Louvre (Graeco-Roman era). All musical items are experimental contemporary constructions, composed or arranged by the performers, drawing on evidence that is ancient, fragmentary, and problematic.

  1. Pindar Pythian 12: a new setting by Barnaby Brown desiged for choral dancing
  2. Improvisation by Rosa Fragorapti demonstrating diverse techniques for 7-string lyre
  3. Vocable workout on a Roman-era melody (DAGM 37)
  4. Variations by Rosa Fragorapti on an exercise from a Roman-era schoolbook (DAGM 34)
  5. Improvisation by Barnaby Brown demonstrating diverse techniques for 7-hole Egyptian doublepipe
  6. Athenaios Delphic Paean (DAGM 20; c.128 BC)

 

DAGM = E. Pöhlmann and M.L. West, Documents of Ancient Greek Music (Oxford, 2001)