Can you think of a more magical location than the Cathedral of Pisa to hear some of the world’s most famous classical “church music”? The 2010 Anima Mundi festival starts with Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater on September 15th, performed by world-renowned artists in a tribute to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi on the 300th anniversary of his birth, and ends with Valery Poliansky leading the Russian State Cappella in Rachmaninov’s Vespers on October 1st.
All concerts are free but you have to go pick up an entrance ticket which will be offered two days before each concert. To permit fair distribution of tickets, they are giving out only two tickets per person and there is no way to pre-reserve (as explained here).
Programme of the Festival 2010
15-09-2010 21:00
Pisa, Cathedral
G. B. Pergolesi, J.S.Bach, T. Merula
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
& English Baroque Soloists
17-09-2010 21:00
Pisa, Cathedral
C. Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine per soli, coro e orchestra (1610)
English Baroque Soloists, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
& John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
22-06-2010 21:00
Pisa, Monumental Cemetery
P. Maxwell Davies, Le Jongleur de Notre Dame
I suonatori della Santissima Annunziata
Matelda Cappelletti, director
Guido Corti, orchestral arrangement and conducting
21-09-2010 21:00
Pisa, Monumental Cemetery
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Luigi Cherubini’s birth
Quartetto Savinio
Cherubini Harmonie
25-09-2010 21:00
Pisa, Cathedral
I. Stravinskij, C. Gesualdo
Ensemble De Labyrintho, Walter Testolin, conductor
Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, Nicola Paszkowski, conductor
22-06-2010 21:00
Pisa, Cathedral
T. Kverno, G. Deraco, B. Pasquini
Coro Musicanova di Roma, Fabrizio Barchi, conductor
Capella Tiberina, Giovanni Caruso, conductor
01-10-2010 21:00
Pisa, Cathedral
S. Rachmaninov, Vespers (A cappella) op. 37
Russian State Cappella, Moscow
Valery Poliansky, conductor
