Núria Rial, soprano
Lucilla Galeazzi, traditional singer
Barbara Furtuna, (Corsica)
Jean Pierre Marchetti (terza)
André Dominici (bassu)
Jean Philippe Guissani (bassu, contracantu)
Maxime Merlandi (seconda)
L’Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar, conductor

Corsican Traditional: Maria le sette spade / Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: L’Annonciation / Claudio Merula: Hor ch’é tempo di dormire / Traditional: Ninna nanna sopra la Romanesca / Traditional – Maxime Merlandi – Jean Pierre Marchetti: Maria / Maurizio Cazzati: Passacaglia / Laudario di Cortona (Italian 13th century manuscript ): Voi che amate / Corsican Traditional: Suda sangue / Benedetto Ferrari: Queste pungente spine / Orazio Micchi dell’Arpa: Lamento della Madonna / Traditional: Santu Giesu / Corsican Traditional: Stabat mater / Giovanni Antonio Pandolfo Mealli: La Biancuccia / Giovanni Felipe Sances: Stabat mater / Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli: La Vinciolina / R. Mambrini - T. Casalonga - N. Acquaviva: Lamentu di Ghjesu / Claudio Monteverdi: Et resurexit /Laudate Dominum / Maurizio Cazzati: Ciaccona

A few months after the appearance of L’Arpegiatta’s CD, Teatro d’amore, we are delighted to invite the group to open this year’s Festival. This concert will be a joint performance with our special guest artist, Núria Rial. Accompanied by the Corsican vocal ensemble, Barbara Furtuna, and the singer Lucilla Galeazzi, L’Arpegiatta and Rial will perform Via Crucis, a combination of musical styles in which Christina Pluhar and her musicians will highlight the constant dialogue between popular and “serious” music that characterised Holy Week in the 17th century.