Black Telemann: A Tribute Concert by the Ensemble Barocco di Napoli

Entitled "Black Telemann", in homage to the eighteenth-century German composer, the concert by the Ensemble Barocco di Napoli concludes the music season of the Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti, chaired by Oreste de Divitiis, on Thursday, April 18th at 8:30 pm, at the Teatro Sannazaro. "Black Telemann - emphasizes Tommaso Rossi, artistic director of Scarlatti and, on this occasion, also soloist of the Ensemble Barocco - stems from the desire to contribute to the knowledge of a great German author, not particularly frequented (especially in Italy) compared to his contemporaries Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel, but certainly a figure of absolute prominence like them in the history of music". Of Georg Philipp Telemann (Magdeburg 1681, Hamburg 1767) are performed in Naples the "Overture, Suite in E minor" from the "Musique de Table", the "Concerto in D major", the "Concerto in E minor". A selection of pieces that has the flute, both recorder and transverse, as the protagonist instrument, entrusted here to the performance of two established soloists, Laura Pontecorvo and Tommaso Rossi, and to the musicians of the Ensemble Barocco formed by Rossella Croce and Marco Piantoni violins, Vezio Jorio viola, Manuela Albano cello, Giorgio Sanvito double bass, Patrizia Varone harpsichord. "Around this composer we were able to create - adds Tommaso Rossi - a complex work that combines the possible timbral combinations and the different genres of instrumental music of the time (suite, concerto, sonata), respecting that 'mixed style' - the combination of Italian, French, and German style - which is the synthesis of Telemann's work". The evening in Naples also offers the first absolute performance of the original piece by Pasquale Corrado that gives the title to the entire concert, "Black Telemann". This composition, commissioned by the network R.E.A.CO (acronym in which numerous Italian concert institutions are joined), proposes a reflection on the actuality of Telemann's message and on his place in our modernity still as a generator of new possible musical scenarios. In "Black Telemann", Pasquale Corrado explores the possible metamorphoses of a fragment of the "Concerto in E minor" for recorder, transverse flute, strings, and basso continuo by Telemann, where the traditional structure of the baroque concerto is replaced by a fluctuating and mutable mechanism that questions the very concept of orchestra and the relationships between the instruments and the sections that compose it. Tickets: 25 euros stalls, 18 euros gallery (reduced under 30 euros 12). Information: www.associazionescarlatti.it The Ensemble Barocco di Napoli was established on the initiative of Tommaso Rossi, Raffaele Di Donna, and Marco Vitali and made its debut on May 2, 2010, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the birth of Alessandro Scarlatti. Since then, as part of the activities of the Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti of Naples, it has realized numerous programs focused on the music of the great composer, as part of a real research project that led, in 2012, to the first recording of the Ensemble, dedicated to the complete cantatas with obligatory flute by Scarlatti. In 2014, the group's second CD was published, with the sonatas for flute by Leonardo Leo, in first absolute recording. The ensemble has performed for Radio3 and in the last seasons has been invited to the Festival of Ancient Music of La Valletta (Malta), Ravello Festival, Leonardo Leo Festival of Brindisi and in the seasons of the Opera Giocosa of Savona, Magie Barocche of Catania, A.M.A Calabria Concerti, University Institution of Concerts of Rome, Accademia degli Sfaccendati, Concerti della Normale di Pisa. In 2019, the project Il Soffio di Partenope, dedicated to the music for wind instruments by authors from the Neapolitan area, was published by Sony-Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, as part of a research project in collaboration with the Abchordis Ensemble of Basel. In 2021, the CD with the sonatas for flute by Robert Valentine, titled An Englishman in Rome, was released.