Lucignano Music Festival 2022

Lucignano, "The pearl of the Valdichiana”Is a small Tuscan hilltop village located between Arezzo and Siena. Its elliptical shape with concentric road rings, handed down intact through the centuries, makes it one of the most extraordinary examples of medieval town planning, while its position on the top of a hill overlooking the Valdichiana has made it strategically important since antiquity.

Part of the network of Most beautiful villages in Italy is Orange Flag of the Italian Touring Club, Lucignano from 22 to 24 July 2022 will host the 2nd edition of the Lucignano Music Festival, classical music review organized by Fifth APS Season with the artistic direction of the violinist Irene Abrigo.

Titled Tales, the Lucignano Music Festival 2022 offers a journey into the world of fantasy, beauty and childhood memories, from the magic of Schubert is Schumann interspersed with contemporary authors, to dances and symphonies from Clementi to greens is Ginastera, from Pinocchio at the wine festival of Bacchus & Ariadne, up to the famous sextet of Tchaikovsky, Souvenir de Florence, witness of the link between Russian culture and the city of Florence.

Among the artists involved, the cellist Enrico Bronzi, the Swiss violist Jürg Dähler, the artistic director Irene Abrigo, violinist, the Children's Orchestra of the Fiesole Music School.

Five appointments proposed by the Lucignano Music Festival 2022:

opens on Friday July 22nd (9.30 pm) with a concert that typeset the famous sonata by Franz Schubert D821 'Arpeggione', the Quintet for piano and strings op. 44 of Rohert Schumann and two contemporary pieces, Miroirs for violin and piano by Daniel Philip Hefti and the String Trio Archeology of the loss of Nadir Vassena. Violinists on stage Irene Abrigo is Francesco Sica, the violist Jürg Dähler, the cellist Enrico Bronzi and the pianist Francesca Sperandeo.

Saturday 23 July (5 pm) will be the protagonistOrchestra of the Boys of the Music School of Fiesole with the musical direction of Antonino Siringo, scheduled for Symphonies op. 18 n. 1 of Muzio Clementi is op. 3 n. 6 of Johann Christian Bach, two waltzes of greens is Sibelius, the Dance of the Trigo of Ginastera. The concert will be preceded by a welcome snack (4 pm).

On the same day, at 9.30 pm, the Lucignano Music Festival offers a real rarity, the screening of the silent film Pinocchio (1911) of the director Giulio Antamoro, also known under the pseudonym Gant (Rome 1877 -1945), the first filmic version of Collodi's book. The screening will be accompanied by piano improvisations by Antonino Siringo.

The closing day of the Festival, Sunday July 24 provides for a double appointment - at 11.30 am, in collaboration with the Azienda Agricola Fabbriche Palma, is scheduled for Concert-tasting #Bacco & Arianna, which leads to listening to songs by JS Bach, D. Scarlatti, Xenakis, Braun performed by Irene Abrigo, Francesco Sica, Jürg Dähler, Enrico Bronzi is Sebastian Braun.

The final concert of the Lucignano Music Festival 2022 (18 hours) opens with the Quintet K 406 of Mozart, continues with the contemporary piece Atamason (Double Trio) by Mischa Käser and closes with the only string sextet written by Tchaikovsky, the well-known Souvenir de Florence. On stage they return Irene Abrigo is Francesco Sica to violins, Jürg Dähler is Martina Santarone to violets, Enrico Bronzi is Sebastian Braun to cellos. At the end of the concert, for all participants, festival closing aperitif.