A sacred music anniversary concert will be held on 26 April at 7.30pm at the St Paul Shipwreck Collegiate Church in Valletta.
This celebration concert is marking the 150th Anniversary of the Societa' Filarmonica Nazionale La Valette AD 1874 and is organised in conjunction with the Collegiate Chapter.
The programme consists pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The concert will conducted by Mro Mauro Ivano Benaglia, with the participation of The Schola Cantorum ARS Nova, the Coro Città di Rivarolo (led by Mro Maria Grazia Laino), Accademia concertante d’Archi (Milano) and violinist Lorenzo Meraviglia on a historical 1730 Omofobo Stradivarius.
PROGRAMME
Johann Sebastian Bach
CONCERT BWV 1041 in a moll for violin soloist and strings, composed in 1730.
Allegro moderato - Andante - Allegro assai.
Lorenzo Meraviglia (Omobono Stradivari 1730).
Accademia Concertante d’Archi of Milan, Italy.
Conductor: Mro Mauro Ivano Benaglia
Franz Schubert
Mass in G major, D.167 for soli, choir and string orchestra, composed in 1815.
1. Kyrie Kyrie eleison (Andante con moto) (G major)
2. Gloria Gloria, in excelsis Deo (Allegro maestoso) (D major)
3. Credo Credo in unum Deum (Allegro moderato) (G major)
4. Sanctus Sanctus Dominus Deus (Adagio moderato) (D major)
Osanna in excelsis (Allegro) (D major)
5. Benedictus Benedictus qui venit (Andante grazioso) (G major)
Osanna in excelsis (Allegro) (D major)~
6. Agnus Dei Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi (Lento) (G major)
Coro Città di Rivarolo (Torino) - M° Maria Grazia Laino
Schola Cantorum “Ars Nova” - Cerro Maggiore (Milano) - M° Mauro Benaglia
Lorenzo Meraviglia (Omobono Stradivari 1730)
String group of the Accademia Concertante of Milan
Conductor: Mro Mauro Ivano Benaglia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei K 273, composed in 1777
Sancta Maria, mater Dei,
ego omnia tibi debeo,
sed ab hac hora singulariter
me tuis servitiis devoveo.
Te patronam,
te sospitatricem eligo.
Tuus honor et cultus
aeternum mihi cordi fuerit,
quem ego nunquam deseram
neque ab aliis mihi subditis
verbo factoque violari patiar.
Sancta Maria, tu pia
me pedibus tuis advolutum recipe,
in vita protege,
in mortis discrimine defende.
Amen.
Coro Città di Rivarolo (Torino) led by Mro Maria Grazia Laino
Schola Cantorum “Ars Nova” - Cerro Maggiore (Milano) – Mro Mauro Ivano Benaglia
Lorenzo Meraviglia (Omobono Stradivari 1730)
String group of the Accademia Concertante.