Venice, Chiesa di San Rocco

• Un padovano alla corte di Würzburg – CONCERT DEDICATED TO LYDA BORELLI
  The choral music of Giovanni Benedetto Platti (Padua 1697 – Würzburg 1766), Thursday 1 June 2023

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  GIOVANNI BENEDETTO PLATTI (1697-1766)

  REQUIEM — Mass for 4 voices, soloists, choir and orchestra: Requiem, Te decet hymnus, Kyrie, Dies irae, Tuba mirum, Lacrymosa, Huic ergo parce Deus, Domine Jesu Christe, Quam olim Abrahae, Sanctus, Benedictus, Hosanna, Agnus Dei, Lux aeterna.

  MISERERE — Miserere, Et secundum moltitudinem, Tibi soli peccavi, Ecce enim iniquitatibus conceptus sum, Ecce enim veritatem, Aspergens me, Auditui meo, Cor mundum crea in me, Docebo iniquos vias tuas, Libera me, Domine labia mea aperiens, Benigne fac Domine, Tunc acceptabis sacrificium, Gloria Patri, Sicut erat in principio.

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  GIOVANNI BENEDETTO PLATTI (1697-1766)

  CATERINA ENSEMBLE — Tommaso Luison violin, Massimiliano Tieppo violin, Alessandro Lanaro viola, Francesco Galligioni cello, Francesco Cataldo double bass, Roberto Loreggian organ.

  Alessandro Kirschner, conductor: a choral conductor and composer, he trained in piano, choral music and choral conducting, and composition, later graduating in contemporary compositional disciplines. He is the permanent conductor of the Caterina Ensemble vocal group and works with the Cesare Pollini Conservatory’s Coro di voci bianche in Padua. As a choral conductor and composer he has won numerous national and international competition prizes. His music is performed by choirs around the world and published in Italy and abroad. He teaches at the Cesare Pollini Conservatory in Padua and is a lecturer in choral conducting technique at the ASAC Veneto’s Accademia “Righele”.

  Founded in Padua in 2009, the Caterina Ensemble vocal group focuses mainly on repertoire up to the late Baroque. Made up of around twenty-five singers, the group has been directed since 2015 by Alessandro Kirschner.
  The ensemble works with established musicians and musical organisations such as Roberto Loreggian, Giammichele Costantin, ConSerto Musico, the viola da gamba ensemble Le Viole di Orfeo, the Società Musicale directed by Carlos Gubert, and the Orchestra della Venezie directed by Giovanni Angeleri; as the resident training choir for the ASAC’s Accademia di direzione corale “Piergiorgio Righele”, it has worked with Marco Berrini, Luigi Marzola, Francesco Erle, Giovanni Acciai, Giulio Prandi and Lucio Golino.
  The Caterina Ensemble has been invited to take part in major festivals in our region (Musica ed Antiche Chiese – Province of Padua, Musica per l’ora dell’Angelus – Padua, Bottega Tartiniana – Padua, the opening of the Festival Biblico 2017 and 2020 – Vicenza and Padua, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari – Venice, Festival Galuppi, Venice) and has always stood out for the quality of its musical programme, much appreciated by audiences.

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