PRESS RELEASE (1/1/2015)
Saturday, January 3, a Loano, double musical event in the calendar of events “Christmas enchantments”, sponsored by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano.
At 4 p.m., in fortress square, will take place the concert of the vocal trio No Trouble. Arya Delgado, Andrea Xeniadis e Alice Macchi will perform a repertoire ranging from rhythm'n'blues to soul from Aretha Franklin to Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder.
At 6 p.m., in the’Oratory Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, a new concert of the review “The Turchini concerts”, organized by the Brotherhood of the Blue Hats.
The Friends of the Organ Music Association and the St. Ambrose Music Association, as part of the traveling music project “The Concerts of St. Torpete,” will present the organ concert by Silva Manfrè.
Silva Manfrè, owner of the organ at St. Thekla Church in Vienna, where he resides, will present a program of music from the 1700s partly related to the Christmas holiday mood. He will perform the Suite de Noël by French composer Michel Corrette (1707-1795) who, like many other seventeenth-eighteenth-century musicians, tried his hand at that typical form of French organ music which is the Noël,. Taken from the Nouveau Livre de Noëls published in Paris in 1741, the Suite consists of three folk-inspired songs of different origins (including a Noël provençal) and is concluded by a Carillon.
Then pieces by two Neapolitan composers will be performed: three sonatas by the great Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), including the Pastoral K 315, and the Sonata III of the lesser known John Francis De Majo (1732-1770). This will be followed by the Pastoral of Faithful Fenaroli (1730-1818), also trained in Naples and a master of composers such as Zingarelli, Cimarosa and Marcadante. The concert will close with the Suite No. 1 taken from the famous Water Music by Händel.
After graduating from high school in Italy, Silva Manfrè perfected with Michael Radulescu in Vienna and attended numerous courses and seminars with leading organists and performers of early music (Guy Bovet, Harald Vogel, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Paolo Crivellaro). He has given concerts at the most important music festivals in many European countries.
A Loano will play the organ of the Oratory of N-S. of the Rosary, a valuable instrument of the 19th century Tuscan organ school built by Pistoiese Nicomede Agati in 1850 (opus 381) also active in Genoa and Liguria. The instrument has the typical registers of the period, including reed registers such as the Three-Order Cornet and the Trumpet and those of “effect” (Chinese Hat, Grancassa col Sistro and Timpano, Passerio, Banda Turca and Campanelli). It was restored in 2004 by Graziano Interbartolo of Stella Gameragna (SV).
