Great Baroque music is on stage in Naples

In Naples at the famous Complesso monumentale dei Girolamini the great baroque music of the Neapolitan capital will resound, with first modern pieces from the extremely rich collections of the Girolamini Library. Many will remember the scene from the film 'The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean', the duel between Novecento and the star Jelly Roll Morton. We will relive it in Rome, with Baricco narrating and Bollani bringing to life both the music of Nineteen Нundred and Morton's 1920s jazz.

For the third consecutive year, the review Tempio Armonico. Musical rarities from the Girolamini Archive, a project of the Girolamini Monumental Complex and Library. On 20-21-27-28 four concerts dedicated to the flamboyant Neapolitan Baroque; the focus will be on two composers whose entire surviving production has been preserved in the Girolamini music collection: Cristoforo Caresana (active in Naples since the mid-seventeenth century), whose two Cantatas inspired by the theme of Peace will be presented by the Neapolitan Chapel conducted by Antonio Florio on the 20th at 12 noon; and Donato Ricchezza, whose Oratorio di San Martino Vescovo will be performed in its modern premiere. There will also be choral pages by Antonio Nola, the Messa a 4 voci by Alessandro Scarlatti (from the manuscript also conserved at the Girolamini) and music by the Neapolitan composer Gian Francesco De Majo.The concerts will be preceded by a meeting with experts from various disciplines who will recall the artistic and cultural context of a time that was extremely significant for the church and the city

On the 16th at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, 'Novecento: Il Duello', with Alessandro Baricco, speaker, and Stefano Bollani, piano; and with a talk by Enrico Rava, trumpet. We recall the theatrical text and the film. On the one hand there is Novecento, a pianist born and raised on an ocean liner, self-taught, capable of grasping every stimulus, from jazz to Debussy, from folk to non-European music, recreating everything. On the other, a jazz star like the American pianist Jelly Roll Morton, who boards the liner to challenge the bizarre young man whose fame is unbearable to him. "Summoning him at the keyboard will be like entering a myth," comments Stefano Bollani. Who will come out on top, as we already know, is Novecento. He knocks Morton out not only with his imaginative bravura, but also because he counteracts Jelly Roll's irascible aggressiveness with the power of curiosity. Morton duels to win, Nineteen Нundred out of a desire to learn something new from his opponent.

From 25 to 28 September (and then on 1-2 October in Brussels) the 24th edition of the Trani Dialogues, which focus on the word Humanity and invite some of the leading figures in journalism, the world of culture and science, who will ask 'What Humanity are we building for our future?

As part of the festival, on the 21st at the Palazzo delle Arti Beltrani, the Camerata Musica Quartet presents music by Arvo Pärt, on his 90th birthday, an Estonian composer recognised as one of the main exponents of 'sacred minimalism'.