Grosseto, the 32nd edition of the festival begins. The historic "Music & Wine" Festival returns, starting from January 23rd, now in its thirty-second edition. The important event, dedicated to the union between great music and the great wines of the territory, is organized by the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Grosseto and by the Amici del Quartetto Association under the artistic direction of maestro Giovanni Lanzini, with the collaboration of Grosseto Culture Foundation. As usual, the 'winter' session of the event will develop into four Sunday appointments in the months of January and February, and then continue with the summer session in the months of July and August. This year too, the welcoming and evocative setting of the Maremma Natural History Museum was chosen for the four winter shows, while the locations in which to stage the summer season are being defined.
As per tradition, each event of the festival will be preceded or followed by tastings of the best local wines, through the involvement of the companies and the continuation of the fruitful collaboration with the sommeliers of "Rosae Maris" and the European Sommelier School, to once again reiterate the union of excellence among the great musical interpreters of the international scene and the excellence of Maremma wines. As regards the winter concerts, in compliance with the provisions regarding the prevention of contagion from Covid-19, the tastings will be replaced by interesting wine presentations by Elisabetta Ceccariglia of "Rosae Maris" which will be followed at the end of each concert , a nice random draw of some bottles of the wines presented to be awarded to the lucky winners.
“The International Festival “Music & Wine” – jointly declare the mayor of Grosseto Antonfrancesco Vivarelli Colonna and the councilor for Culture Luca Agresti – has become an unmissable event for our territory. The refined musical selection, combined with the excellence of our wines, are the perfect combination of culture and promotion of the territory: a true model of branched organization, made possible by the commitment and passion of maestro Giovanni Lanzini, who again this year wanted to draw up a program of great depth. The 32nd edition, like all previous ones, will be a success to remember." The provincial councilor with responsibility for culture Cecilia Buggiani also participated in the press conference to present the event, representing the provincial administration.
Also for this edition the musical shows selected by maestro Giovanni Lanzini, artistic director of the festival, will all be of the highest level with guests coming from both Italy and abroad (Switzerland, Lithuania, Russia, Albania, Spain, France, Portugal) and they will range in every stylistic direction, from classical music to jazz and from film music to tango. Due to its importance in the area, this year too "Music & Wine" will have the patronage of the Tuscany Region, the Province and the Municipality of Grosseto, in addition to the concrete help of some private sponsors. In order to ensure that listening to live music "in person" is organized in complete safety, the organizers have established (in addition to the limitations imposed by the current Ministerial Decrees) that access to the room is only permitted upon mandatory reservation and regulated by a limited number of seats. . For this you will have to contact the number 333.9905662 (also Whatsapp) of the Friends of the Quartet or by e-mail at amiquart@gmail.com
Coming to the music, the thirty-second Friends of the Quartet Festival will open on Sunday 23 January at 17pm with the very interesting show "Classics of yesterday and today", an authentic guide to listening to "great music" which will feature the Trio Beethoven, formed by the clarinettist Raffaele Bertolini, the cellist Silvano Maria Fusco and the pianist Raffaele D'Angelo: an exquisitely classical first part of the concert (with Ludwig van Beethoven's Trio op. 11) will be followed by a decidedly varied second part which will unfold with agility from the tangos of Piazzolla (whose birth centenary marks the centenary) to the film music of Ennio Morricone and the klezmer music of the Hungarian Bela Kovacs.
The atmosphere of the next concert, on Sunday 30 January, will be totally different. The title of the concert, "Of farewells and distances", already leaves no doubt: the sentimental journey into music proposed by the famous Lithuanian soprano Jolanta Stanelyte accompanied by Gaetano di Bacco on saxophone and Guido Galterio on piano will be extremely broad and will range across a rich “plateau” of authors including Rachmaninof, Dvorak, Rodrigo, Rossini, Puccini, Glinka and Tchaikovsky. The great Russian cellist Mtislav Rostropovic defined Jolanta Stanelyte's voice as “a voice that enters the soul” and this musical program certainly seems tailor-made for the famous soprano.
A less demanding and more light-hearted musical climate will await the public at the concert on Sunday 6 February (also at 17pm) which will feature an unusual duo formed by Gian Marco Solarolo, famous Milanese oboist (also specialized in the baroque repertoire of his instrument) accompanied on the piano by Cristina Monti, also an eclectic artist whose repertoire ranges from the harpsichord to the piano. The proposed program will alternate the sound of the "romantic" oboe involved in the romances of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn up to the more jaunty "American" sound with a series of famous "songs" by George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein, to conclude with some of the most beautiful ragtimes by Scott Joplin.
The grand finale with which the first part of the 32nd Music & Wine Festival 2022 will end is set for Sunday 13 February with the concert of the famous Dyrrachium Trio formed by the first parts of the Albanian Radio Television orchestra with Nevila Kalaja on violin, Giuliano de Angelis on cello and Merita Rexha Tershana on piano. The program presented is certainly of great interest and musical depth, which will compare traditional European classical music (with the wonderful Trio op. 49 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) with the evocative Four Seasons of Buenos Aires by Astor Piazzolla. “The ingredients for a spectacular winter session of the festival – concludes maestro Giovanni Lanzini – are all there. This year too we have worked hard to present our audience with a quality musical offering, which is enriched with the splendid contribution of the companies producing our best local wines. The perfect combination that in recent years has made the international “Music & Wine” Festival a certainty”.
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