Antennae / Liturgia
Aleksandra Vrebalov/Conservatorio Giuseppe Tartini di Trieste
Antennae, by renowned Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov, arrives in its Italian premiere performance: a mystical concert inspired by the 15th-century Virgin Eleusa attributed to painter Angelos Akotantos. The musical traditions that have spanned the divergent mosaic of Balkan Christianity resonate in Vrebalov’s concert as a new harmony. This centuries-old musical immersion has its incipit with the Choir of the Chapel of the Serbian-Orthodox Church of San Spiridione in Trieste performing Liturgia by Francesco Sinico.
Italian premiere
Programme
Alexander Arkhangelsky
Nine ocpuščajuši (The Song of Simeon)
Carju Nebesnij (Heavenly King)
Francesco Sinico
from Liturgia (1840)
Milost Mira – Tebe Pojem
(Mercy of peace – Te cantamus)
Dostojno Jest (Dicitum est)
Aleksandra Vrebalov
Antennae
for Byzantine singers, mixed choir, four trumpets, two bells, string quartet, two organs
Choir of the Serbian-Orthodox Church of San Spiridione in Trieste
conductor Anna Kaira
Alexander Arkhangelsky
Nine ocpuščajuši (The Song of Simeon)
Carju Nebesnij (Heavenly King)
Francesco Sinico
from Liturgia (1840)
Milost Mira – Tebe Pojem
(Mercy of peace – Te cantamus)
Dostojno Jest (Dicitum est)
Aleksandra Vrebalov
Antennae (2019)
conductor Petar Matošević
for Byzantine singers, Choir of St John of Damascus
conductor Vladimir Antić
mixed choir*
four trumpets
two bells
string quartet
two organs
*preparatory teachers
Dragana Jovanović – Faculty of Music – University of Arts of Belgrade
Božidar Crnjanski – Academy of Arts of Novi Sad
production Conservatorio “G. Tartini” of Trieste
Cultural cooperation event Italy – Serbia between: Conservatorio “G. Tartini” of Trieste, Faculty of Music – University of Arts of Belgrade, Academy of Arts of Novi Sad and St. Jovan Damaskin Choir, Choir of the Serbian-Orthodox Church of San Spiridione in Trieste, Conservatorio “B. Marcello” of Venice, under Law 212/2012