'Scarlattiana 2025' concert in Naples cathedral

On Friday, July 18, 2025 at 7:30 p.m., with free admission in the Basilica of Santa Restituta inside
of Naples Cathedral, there will be the 'Scarlattiana 2025' Concert, the third event in the series 'Alessandro Scarlatti the First of the Moderns,' supported by MIC and produced by the Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the great composer's death.

Masterpieces from Alessandro Scarlatti's maturity inspire new music for three young composers.
An unprecedentedly evocative confrontation will feature performances of three Concerto Grosso Symphonies by
Alessandro Scarlatti: No. 2 in D major for flute, trumpet and strings; No. 4 in E minor for
flute, oboe and strings; and No. 11 in C major for flute and strings, masterpieces of his maturity conceived
in Naples in July 1715, exactly 310 years ago, that transport ancient counterpoint into bright new sonic geometries guided by an already all-modern harmonic and tonal sense, flanked by the world premiere of three previously unpublished pieces, each inspired by one of Scarlatti's Symphonies, by three young composers under 35: Lidia De Migno, Giuseppe Franza,
Giuseppe Galiano. First violinist Giacomo Mirra. Between music there will also be room for
a 'Little History of Cavalier Scarlatti,' short sketches of the composer's life told in the first
person by Roberto Del Gaudio, a well-known actor, singer, and writer, recently in bookstores with his
novel La nota di Rosa.
The concert will be preceded at 6:45 p.m. by 'Living Scarlatti in the 21st Century, a conversation
with young musicians attended by Dr. Maria Rossetti of the University of Naples
Federico II.

Lidia De Migno, class of 1999, in Variations on a Theme by Scarlatti takes the fourth movement of the
Symphony No. 2 and makes it the basis for five variations of great imagination and vivacity, concluded by a
playful dance.

Giuseppe Franza, class of 1995, in his unpublished Posticci: we tied them the wrong way round, extracts
some fragments from the first movement from Scarlatti's Symphony No. 4 and places them in an environment of new and alienating sound objects, creating, as he says, a constant tension between
assimilation and rejection, between memory and transformation.

Giuseppe Galiano, born in 1994, drew inspiration from Scarlatti's Symphony No. 11 for his brilliant
Scarlatti in the strand, Concertino for two woodwinds and orchestra, strings that revives the ancient language through a fresh neoclassicism, indebted among others to Stravinsky.

Closing date of the festival: Friday 25 7:30 pm, Church of SS. Marcellinus and Festus 'In a Scarlatti Mood'

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