The Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï and the violist Gérard Caussé are some of the participants in the Capuchos Festival, which takes place from June 16 to July 10, in the municipality of Almada.
The Convento dos Capuchos, about eight kilometers from Almada, in the district of Setúbal, is the main stage of the festival, with the artistic direction of the pianist Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro.
In addition to the 16th century convent, the concerts of the Festival dos Capuchos, whose program was presented this Tuesday, also take place in the Great Auditorium of the Faculty of Science and Technology, of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in neighboring Costa de Caparica, taking place, together with the concerts, a cycle of colloquiums based on literary facts.
“This year’s program is especially loaded with several monographic concerts, which allow us to travel through different creative facets and (re)discover works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Fernando Lopes-Graça”, said Pinto-Ribeiro. .
The festival resumed last year, after 20 years without being held, a return “welcomed at a national and international level, which rescues its place as a cultural event of reference”, stressed Pinto-Ribeiro, noting that, in last year’s edition, ” most of the concerts sold out”.
As for this year’s participants, the pianist, who is conducting the event for the second time, highlighted the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, considered “one of the leading chamber orchestras in the world”, and the musicians Pierre Hantaï, Gérard Caussé , who returns to the Capuchos, more than 30 years later, the pianist Konstantin Lifschitz or the Argentine bandoneonist Héctor Del Curto.
Along with established names, Pinto-Ribeiro also highlighted the participation of young musicians, winners of world competitions, such as the Ukrainian violinist Diana Tishchenko, the Russian pianist Anna Tsybuleva, or the French cellist and conductor Victor Julien-Laferrière.
On a national level, the festival includes the participation of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the DSCH — Schostakovich Ensemble, directed by Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, the Sete Lágrimas ensemble and the Galandum Galundaina group, who will offer a concert dedicated to the music of Terras de Miranda.
On June 25, the festival will host a concert dedicated to the music of Astor Piazzolla with Héctor del Curto (bandoneon), David Castro-Balbi (violin), Jisoo Ok (cello), Tiago Pinto-Ribeiro (double bass), Rosa Maria Barrantes (piano) and Santiago del Curto (clarinet).
The Galandum Galundaina will perform on July 2, at 9:30 p.m., also at the Faculty of Science and Technology. On the same day, at 6:00 p.m., at the Convento dos Capuchos, the soprano Susana Gaspar and the pianist Nuno Vieira de Almeida present a recital dedicated to Fernando Lopes Graça (1906-1994).
The festival opens on June 16 with Bach’s Goldberg Variations by harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï, the same piece that closes the festival on July 10, this time performed by Alexi Kenney (violin), Lars Anders Tomter (viola d’ bow) and Adrian Brendel (cello).
The Vienna Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Victor Julien-Laferrière, with violinist Diana Tishchenko as soloist, performs on June 17, at the Grand Auditorium of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where it returns to play the next day. at 9:30 pm with a program dedicated to Mozart, with soloists Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro (piano), Diana Tishchenko (violin) and Gérard Caussé (viola d’arco).
The event includes a program of conferences by authors such as Agustina Bessa-Luís, Marcel Proust or Luís de Camões.
The conversation about Proust (1817-1922) is moderated by the journalist Carlos Vaz Marques and features the writer António Mega Ferreira and the poet and baritone Jorge Vaz de Carvalho.
Another conversation is on July 3, about “Os Lusíadas”, by Camões. “The epic impulse”, also moderated by Vaz Marques, with the writer Manuel Alegre and a reading of the Caminian epic by the actress Lia Gama, followed at 7:00 p.m., the concert “Love and tragedy in the travels of Camões Tin-Nam-Men or the Patane Cave” with the Sete Lágrimas ensemble (Filipe Faria and Sérgio Peixoto, voice, Pedro Castro, baroque flutes and oboe, Tiago Matias, lute, baroque guitar and theorbo, Mário Franco, double bass, and Baltazar Molina, percussion).
The program includes a tribute to the baritone António Wagner Diniz, co-founder of the Festival dos Capuchos, with José Adelino Tacanho, who died in September 2004. It is a concert of “Carta Branca” to António Wagner Diniz, “who conceived an original event with the participation of various young people and singers, his disciples”.
The concert will take place on July 8, at the Convento dos Capuchos, and according to Wagner Diniz, quoted by the festival’s director, “it intends to carry out two rituals, the passing of the testimony and the farewell.”
The concert program includes pieces by composers Artur Santos, Lopes-Graça, Fauré, Debussy, Satie and Poulenc performed by soprano Laura Martins, mezzo-soprano Rita Filipe, baritone Diogo Chaves and bass-baritone Frederico Pais, accompanied by piano. by Pedro Vieira de Almeida and Filipa Soares, and narration by António Wagner Diniz.
On July 9, in the Great Auditorium of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the concert is entirely dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven, with the participation of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, conducted by the Italian conductor Claudio Vandelli, with soloists Alexi Kenney (violin), Adrian Brendel (cello), Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro (piano) and soprano Anna Samuil, soloist of the Berlin State Opera.
Source: Observadora
