TIRANA, July 2 – French, Austrian, Dutch and Albanian bands will perform in some of Albania’s most important cultural tourism destinations in the first edition of “Vox Baroque” festival featuring 17th and 18th century music by some of the greatest composers of this genre.
The festival opened on Thursday, July 2 with a performance by France’s Aashenayi at the National Museum of History in Tirana. The French band is scheduled to give another concert on Friday, July 3 at the newly restored archeological museum of Durres.
Austria’s Ensemble Barucco is scheduled to perform in the historic town of Kruja on July 4 while newly established Albanian trio composed of Albanian musicians graduated from Italian schools will give a concert at the Voskopoja historic village, in the southeastern region of Korça.
The Netherlands is represented in the festival with the Spirit of Gambo band.
“The goal of this festival is to spread the Baroque music played with original instruments, in full respect of the style, rules and performance of its times. It is a fact that these rules differed geographically and chronologically, they were not recorded in scores and the only way to get to know them and perform them nowadays is the study of theoretical aspects and chronicles of that time,” organizers say.
The festival also targets expanding the repertoire of baroque in Albania, by staging new pieces.
Tirana, Durres, Kruja, Berat, Vlora and Korça will be the key hosts of the festival which is scheduled from July 2 to 12 with the concluding concert in the mountain and cultural tourism village of Voskopoja in Korça, southeastern Albania.
