The festival, organised by the Santa Ana municipal school for the arts (Escuela Municipal de Artes Integradas, EMAI), includes in its programme concerts featuring works by European and Latin American Baroque composers.
Among the foreign musicians taking part in this year’s festival are the cellist Ricardo José del Carmen Fortuny from Guatemala; the Colombians violinist Gonzalo Ospina and oboist Andrés Pinsón; the Swiss flautist Antipe da Stella; and the Spanish group La Ritirata, whose participation enjoys the support of AC/E through the PICE mobility programme.
La Ritirata takes its name from the last movement of the famous quintet composed by Luigi Boccherini in Madrid, entitled ‘La Musica Notturna delle strade di Madrid’. Led by its artistic director Josetxu Obregón, it focuses on early music in order to show how careful performances combined with in-depth knowledge of the instruments and the aesthetic ideas espoused by each composer in his lifetime are undoubtedly a key to the future of music.
The dissemination of Spanish Renaissance, Baroque and Classical music is its chief aim, although its repertoire is not limited to these types of music: its projects cover a much broader variety of styles and periods and it furthermore carries out major research into new trends in historical interpretation, unknown repertoires and innovation.
This is the context of its participation in Costa Rica, which is geared to cultures that have had particularly important links to Spain. In 2013 La Ritirata is opening the 14th Santa Ana International Festival of Baroque Music (FIMB), which is due to take place from 22 October to 3 November in San José, Costa Rica. The group will likewise be performing a concert in Granada (Nicaragua), the first mainland city founded by Spain in the Americas. Its tour will end with a number of master classes organised by the festival which are open to all students who are interested; the classes will be held at the EMAI, where 2,500 students of all ages learn about the different areas of theatre, dance, visual arts and music.
The programme is entitled Il Spiritillo Brando and takes its name from a dance by Andrea Falconieri, a lute player at the court of Naples when it was under Spanish rule. This festive dance marks the exploration of three centuries of Spanish music: Renaissance and Baroque music in Spain, including works by composers in the service of Spanish courts, royalty or nobility, both in the Iberian Peninsula and in other territories. The approach taken to this music also features snippets of other important aspects and different forms of music from each of these periods of history.
Programme
Tuesday 22 October
Opening concert of the 14th FIMB
Venue: EMAI, San José, Costa Rica
Thursday 24 October
Concert in Granada (Nicaragua)
Friday 25 October
Master classes at the EMAI Escuela Municipal de Artes Integradas
Among the foreign musicians taking part in this year’s festival are the cellist Ricardo José del Carmen Fortuny from Guatemala; the Colombians violinist Gonzalo Ospina and oboist Andrés Pinsón; the Swiss flautist Antipe da Stella; and the Spanish group La Ritirata, whose participation enjoys the support of AC/E through the PICE mobility programme.
La Ritirata takes its name from the last movement of the famous quintet composed by Luigi Boccherini in Madrid, entitled ‘La Musica Notturna delle strade di Madrid’. Led by its artistic director Josetxu Obregón, it focuses on early music in order to show how careful performances combined with in-depth knowledge of the instruments and the aesthetic ideas espoused by each composer in his lifetime are undoubtedly a key to the future of music.
The dissemination of Spanish Renaissance, Baroque and Classical music is its chief aim, although its repertoire is not limited to these types of music: its projects cover a much broader variety of styles and periods and it furthermore carries out major research into new trends in historical interpretation, unknown repertoires and innovation.
This is the context of its participation in Costa Rica, which is geared to cultures that have had particularly important links to Spain. In 2013 La Ritirata is opening the 14th Santa Ana International Festival of Baroque Music (FIMB), which is due to take place from 22 October to 3 November in San José, Costa Rica. The group will likewise be performing a concert in Granada (Nicaragua), the first mainland city founded by Spain in the Americas. Its tour will end with a number of master classes organised by the festival which are open to all students who are interested; the classes will be held at the EMAI, where 2,500 students of all ages learn about the different areas of theatre, dance, visual arts and music.
The programme is entitled Il Spiritillo Brando and takes its name from a dance by Andrea Falconieri, a lute player at the court of Naples when it was under Spanish rule. This festive dance marks the exploration of three centuries of Spanish music: Renaissance and Baroque music in Spain, including works by composers in the service of Spanish courts, royalty or nobility, both in the Iberian Peninsula and in other territories. The approach taken to this music also features snippets of other important aspects and different forms of music from each of these periods of history.
Programme
Tuesday 22 October
Opening concert of the 14th FIMB
Venue: EMAI, San José, Costa Rica
Thursday 24 October
Concert in Granada (Nicaragua)
Friday 25 October
Master classes at the EMAI Escuela Municipal de Artes Integradas
