“Vox Baroque” music festival to tour heritage destinations

TIRANA, July 2 – Austrian, Greek, Czech 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 such as Bach, Handel, Scarlatti and Vivaldi.
“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 as quoted by the culture ministry.
The festival also targets expanding the repertoire of baroque in Albania, by staging new pieces.
Durres, Tirana, Shkodra, Berat and Fier 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 Kor衬 southeastern Albania.
The festival will also mark the debut of the Albanian Baroque Ensemble trio, composed of Albanian young Albanian musicians educated in Italy.