Festival Musikaleidos 2021
The 2021 edition focused on the theme of rebirth, which was especially significant in the historical context of the pandemic. At the center was Nature, the protagonist of this return to life, featuring Dante-esque landscapes, romantic vistas, and starry skies.
The Festival opened in June on the social channels ‘Cagliari Don Bosco’ and ‘Hic et Nunc’, with a performance created by the fifth-grade classes of the Infanzia Lieta Primary School in Cagliari. ‘Una Divina Commedia’ was a tribute to Dante on the 700th anniversary of his death, retracing the most significant moments and revisiting the incredible landscapes of the journey undertaken by the Supreme Poet.
At the end of June, at the monumental Church of Santa Chiara, the concert ‘Nature éternelle’, performed by the Hic et Nunc choir, was entirely dedicated to Nature and the breathtaking spectacles it offers us.
In mid-July, the dreamy concert ‘A riveder le stelle’ featured the Multi Unum choir with Mozart’s 6 Nocturnes, accompanied by a clarinet trio consisting of Francesca Piras, Daniele Deias, and Simone Floris, and pianist Gabriele Carta, who performed Robert Schumann’s beautiful Fantasia Op. 17.
‘Le stagioni dell’armonia: Natura tra Barocco e Romanticismo’ (The Seasons of Harmony: Nature Between Baroque and Romanticism), held at the end of July in the garden of Palazzo Siotto, was a tribute to the music of the Baroque and Romantic periods. The evening featured the talented singers Niccolò Porcedda and Federico Fiorio, accompanied on the harpsichord by M° Giancarlo Salaris.”
The Hic et Nunc choir concluded the concert with some romantic Lieder designed to be sung in open air. The masterpieces of Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel, Rheinberger, and Brahms immersed the audience in the genuine beauty of Nature, with its forests, streams, flowers, and nightingales.
The Festival concluded in October with an event dedicated to the great musician Josquin Desprez, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death. The male group Gradi Congiunti and the lute trio Il Dolcimelo performed the Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae, a masterpiece by the Flemish composer dedicated to Hercules I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara: a final facet of Nature, experienced as the origin of the cantus firmus, which in this case comes from the musical letters of the duke’s name.