We started in Vienna, through Haydn revisited by the hands of cellist and conductor Nicolas Altstaedt, in front of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, and will end in New York and New Orleans, when the return China Moses, accompanied by the Classical Orchestra of Espinho, lead us by jazz standards and for its originals with a taste of classics. Between the first moment, on the 11th of June, and the second, on the 24th of July, we will travel much more without having to leave Espinho. Travel through different eras and geographies at the 47th International Music Festival in Espinho (FIME), where we will hear works by Bach, Britten and Steve Reich, where we will see concerts by Jan Garbarek and Bill Frisell.
In 2020, the pandemic forced changes to the format and calendar of the festival, which was carried over to September and extended in time until December. Even so, the worsening of the pandemic situation during that period meant that the concerts of the last month of the festival had not been held. Well, in this return in 2021 to something closer to normality in the long history of FIME, we recover what we lost then. Three concerts, four dates.
Jan Garbarek, the Norwegian saxophonist who is one of the great names in European jazz, will perform on the 9th of July at the Espinho Auditorium (with the exceptions noted, the room where all the concerts will take place), taking his music to travel to the East through by virtuous Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu (the leading quartet is completed by Rainer Brüninghaus on piano and Yuri Daniel on bass). On the 10th and 11th of the same month, in the same space, it will be Drumming GP's turn, together with the FIME Ensemble, under the musical direction of Miquel Bernat, to guide us through Music for 18 Musicians, fundamental work of a bigger name of minimalism , Steve Reich.
Before Reich and Garbarek, we will be transported to Leipzig from the beginning of the 18th century, with the French ensemble Le Banquet Céleste, baptized with the happy title of a work by Messiaen, interpreting a series of cantatas composed by Bach in the 1720s , period in which he worked at the Church of São Tomé in the German city (very appropriately, the concert, on the 2nd of July, will take place at the Igreja Matriz in Espinho).
After the aforementioned opening concert, on June 11, with Nicolas Altstaedt leading the Gulbenkian Orchestra in the concert dedicated to Haydn, the next day will be dedicated to a tour that takes us from Saint-Säens to Mozart, hence Modernism - us then in the 20th century by Poulenc and Hindemith. Guiding us along this route we will find the breaths of the Les Vents Français sextet. A week later, the auditorium will hear tenor Ian Bostridge give voice to English poetry, so loved by Britten, that the composer put on music in the 1950s - Bostridge will have the piano of LuÃs Duarte and the FIME Ensemble, being the musical direction of Jan Wierbza.