Retrotopia -2019
A collage of compositions from the 17th and 18th century (Composers: Dario Castello, Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Sammartini, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Biagio Marini, Nicola Matteis).
Commissioned by Reversio Ensemble and the Medynes Festival in Lithuania 2019 Retrotopia is a music theatre performance for one actress and four musicians. The piece is an examination of a contemporary state-of-humanity in which an irrational constant state of insecurity and growing anxiety results in a fear from the nearing future and a powerful escapist regression to the past. In this musical monologue, legendary actress Jūratė Onaitytė embodies a nameless figure stuck in a time between the past and the future. As she tries to negate between her fear of the coming future and an idealization of the past, her present time becomes more and more unbearable.
Premiere, 10 November 2019
Director: Sjaron Minailo
Actress: Jūratė Onaitytė
Lighting designer: Maarten Warmerdam Music: Reversio ensemble: Darius Klisys, Marek Toporowski, Robert Bachara, Tomasz Frycz. Project coordinator: Neringa Klišienė Director assistant: Diana Gancevskaitė
Baroque With A Difference
Biagio Marini (ca 1587–1663) – La cornera. Sinfonia (Affetti Musicali. Venezia, 1617)
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (ca. 1620 -1623–1680) Ciaccona
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) – Sonata per due oboi e basso continuo (RV 81) – Allegro, Largo, Allegro
Biagio Marini – Passacaglio (Sonate da Chiesa e da Camera opera XXII. Venezia, 1655)
Dario Castello (c. 1590 – c. 1658) – Sonata quarta á 2 soprani
Georg Friedrich Händel (1658–1759) – Trio Sonata in B Minor (HWV 386b) Largo
Giuseppe Sammartini (1695–1750) – Sonata à oboè solo con il basso – Andante, Adagio, Allegro assai
Antonio Vivaldi – Suonata á violino, oboè, et organo obligati et anco, se piace, il salmoè (RV 779) – Andante, Allegro, Largo e Cantabile, Allegro
Nicola Matteis (fl. c. 1670 – after 1713) – Aria Amorosa
"CORONA AUREA" Lithuanian birbynė: XVII Century Music in Poland and Lithuania
Anonymus Kolenda (Carol) - (Sapieha Album, 17thCentury)
Tarquinio Merula (1595–1665) - Canzon Decima seconda a 2: La Scarinza
Adam Jarzębski (1590 – c1648) - Concerto a 2: Corona aurea (Intavolation of motet by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Adam from Wagrowiec (x. Jadam) Fantasia super secundum tonum (Kraziai Manuscript 17th Century)
Marcin Mielczewski (1600–1651) Canzona Terza a3
Anonymus Passemus 98v (Oliva vel Braunsberg Organ Tablature ~1619)
Tobias Hume (c1579–1645) Pollish Ayre, Polish vilanell, Pollish Ayer
Adam Jarzębski - Concerto a 3: Chromatica
Andrea Gabrieli (c1533–1585) Canzona (Oliva vel Braunsberg Organ Tablature, ~1619)
Marcin Mielczewski - Canzona Seconda a2
Tarquinio Merula - Canzon a 2: La Miradoro (Canzoni da suonare, Libro 4)
Adam from Wagrowiec (x. Jadam) - Toccata, Canzona, Super secundum tonum (Kraziai Manuscript, 17th Century)
Anonymus - 5 Dances: Tantz, Chorea, Tanz, Chorea, Tanz (Oliva vel Braunsberg Organ Tablature, ~1619)
Adam Jarzębski Concerto a 3 Spandesa
Tarquinio Merula - Ciaccona
Anonymus - 4 Dances: Witany, Tarapata, Pagamoszka, Wychodzony (Jagiellonian Library Manuscript No.10002)