The Sounds of the Dolomites 2023 | 28th edition

The program

The inauguration

Sounds of the Dolomites opens the twenty-eighth edition Wednesday 23 August 2023 at Malga Tassulla in Val Nana, at the foot of Monte Peller in the Brenta Dolomites: Northern and Southern Europe will dialogue in the event starring the Norwegian Erlend Øye  – half of the duo Kings of Convenience, standard bearers of the New Acoustic Movement – and the Sicilians de The group: a surprising encounter between different sounds and colors, which perfectly embodies the most adventurous spirit of the Festival.

Classic music

The classic music it has always been a cornerstone of The Sounds of the Dolomites, and this year the September 1st on the occasion ofDawn of the Dolomites, one of the most popular events of the Festival, which returns to its "historic" setting of Col Margherita, in Val di Fassa. It belongs to the artistic director Mario Brunello greet the sunrise at an altitude of 2500 m, with his cello accompanied by Polish Cello Quartet, made up of leading instrumentalists of the new generation. To color that unique moment of suspension between darkness and light with sounds will be a “symphonic” program, albeit for only 5 cellos, with two original and rare transcriptions of the Bolero of Ravel he was born in Cello Concerto in B min. op. 104 of Antonín Dvořák, in addition to the fascinating song Earth Air of John Sollima.

The concert on the calendar will still be dedicated to classical soundsSeptember 8 in one of the new settings of the Festival, Sagron Mis, at the foot of the Pale di San Martino and the Vette Feltrine: the quintet La Petite Écurie, three oboes, bassoon and percussion, will bring great Baroque music to the top, including in the lineup, among others, Purcell, Handel is Vivaldi.

The 21 September the historian will climb the Roda di Vaèl refuge Quartet of the Ladder, born in 1953 and re-founded in 2001 by four young first parts of the Theater Orchestra. With a staff that has gradually changed, over the decades the Quartet has been the protagonist of important musical events and recordings. On this occasion, Francesco Manara and Daniele Pascoletti, violins, Simonide Braconi, viola and Massimo Polidori, cello will play in the program  Schubert, Quartettsatz in C min D 703, Beethoven, Quartet op 18 n 4, is Paraphrase from Rigoletto of greens.

The September 22 in Malga Vallesinella Alta, in the Brenta Dolomites, it will be the turn of the versatile Sergey Malov: born in St. Petersburg, he is a renowned virtuoso of stringed instruments, playing violin, viola, baroque violin and shoulder cello. Malov will rise to high altitudes with the latter to perform pieces by Bach, in an unprecedented approach to the melodies of the Irish folk tradition.

Musical theater

Two appointments dedicated to Musical theater at high altitude: the September 6 in Val di Fassa, in Malga Canvere above Bellamonte in the Viezzena – Bocche Group, a stage of green meadows will welcome the fairy tale in music 'Polymer, a plastic puppet': written by Job brood and played by Gene Gnocchi, the text is accompanied by the original music by Stephen Nanni, who will also conduct the strings and percussions of theMaderna Orchestra; with them, the solo viola of Danilo Rossi. The ecological fable revisits the tale of Pinocchio in a modern key, to tell the story of the emergency of plastic and the pollution of the planet.

Instead, it is a journey-concert with a high comic potential that will be staged on September 30th, at the Viviani – Pradalago refuge above Madonna di Campiglio. The ingredients are all there: let's take the elements of an orchestra (theWind, voice and percussion ensemble of the FA Bonporti Conservatory of Trento and Riva del Garda directed by the Maestro Francesco Fontolan), a narrator who lets himself be carried away by the imagination, let's add the four acrobatic soloists of the Band Osiris and let's immerse them all, performers and audience, in nature. And so the musical tale "Peter and the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev under the distorting lens of the Osiris Band (Peter! And the wolf?), becomes the pretext for a foray into the world of musical fantasy where Prokofiev's melodies intertwine with those of other famous composers, from Mozart to Bizet, and derailed into different genres, from the soundtracks of Walt Disney to the village people.

Jazz

the 25 August to the Bombasel lakes in the Lagorai group, Sounds of the Dolomites celebrates the great comeback of the American trumpeter Dave Douglas, one of the greatest exponents of contemporary jazz. Twenty years later and with the same line-up he will celebrate the album Mountain passages, a composition of 13 pieces inspired by the rural culture of Trentino, especially the Ladin one.

We remain in the jazz field August 28 at Prati Col in Val Canali, at the foot of the Pale di San Martino: the singer Tatyana Eva Marie, Swiss by birth but a New Yorker by adoption, and the Avalon Jazz Band they offer a mix between Balkan tradition and Django Reinhardt's Gypsy Jazz.

THE September 12 on Monte Agnello in Tresca (Val di Fiemme) ranges from Strauss to Steve Wonder, thanks to the soloists of the famous Mnozil Brass, now reunited in the trio Wieder, Gansch & Paul: humor and great class for a concert between folk, jazz, tango and great composers.

The September 14 in Col Bel sul Buffaure, in the Fassa Dolomites, the accordionist Luciano Biondini and the saxophonist Rosario Giuliani with their project Italian cinema pay homage to Ennio Morricone, the undisputed master of film music.

The September 17 the violinist Iva Bittova, multifaceted and charismatic Czech artist devoted to experimentation, will play among the peat bogs of Passo Lavazè, where she will climb with Vladimír Václavek (vocals and guitar) and Jacob Růžička (percussions).

The September 19 at Villa Welsperg in Val Canali the trumpeter Fabrizio Boxwood and the pianist Julian Mazzariello they will immerse themselves in the world of Pino Daniele's songs with the project The sky is full of stars.

The concert of September 24 at the Rifugio Contrin, at the foot of the Marmolada will close with an event open to all three days of  trekking (22-23-24.09.) offered to trained walkers: the show Tango Macondo it will be a truly special dialogue in music, in the name of air instruments and a lyricism with Mediterranean aromas, which involves Paolo Fresu (trumpet, flugelhorn), Daniele Di Bonaventura (bandoneon) e Pierpaolo Vacca (organetto), with the young musicians of the Bonporti Conservatory, Giulio Ferraro (trumpet) and Giosué Mazzei (guitar). Produced by the Teatro Stabile di Bolzano under the direction of Giorgio Gallione, it will be a dream-concert of great effect that will thrive on poetry, intimism and the little things capable of expressing the colors of the contemporary musical universe.

Popular Music

In the frame of Malga Brenta Bassa in Val Brenta, the August 30th The Sounds of the Dolomites host the very young daughter of artists Frida Bollani Magoni, pianist and singer who has already been able to carve out his own specific place in the spotlight.

Author song

For songwriting, the concert of Sounds is a welcome return Jack Savoretti the September 16 in Malga Andalo, another of the new settings of this edition, in the Brenta Dolomites above Molveno.

Grand finale of the 28th edition de Sounds of the Dolomites, on October 1st at Camp Centener above Madonna di Campiglio: in a setting that is probably already autumnal and therefore even more suggestive, it will be Carmen Consoli the protagonist of the final concert. Authentic icon of the Italian scene between the end of the 90s and the new millennium, the 'female singer, as she likes to define herself, will enchant the audience with her voice and her guitar immersed in the magnificent nature of the landscape. .