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


  1. Biagio Marini (ca 1587–1663) – La cornera. Sinfonia (Affetti Musicali. Venezia, 1617)

  2. Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (ca. 1620 -1623–1680) Ciaccona

  3. Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) – Sonata per due oboi e basso continuo (RV 81) – Allegro, Largo, Allegro

  4. Biagio Marini – Passacaglio (Sonate da Chiesa e da Camera opera XXII. Venezia, 1655)

  5. Dario Castello (c. 1590 – c. 1658) – Sonata quarta á 2 soprani

  6. Georg Friedrich Händel (1658–1759) – Trio Sonata in B Minor (HWV 386b) Largo

  7. Giuseppe Sammartini (1695–1750) – Sonata à oboè solo con il basso – Andante, Adagio, Allegro assai

  8. Antonio Vivaldi – Suonata á violino, oboè, et organo obligati et anco, se piace, il salmoè (RV 779) – Andante, Allegro, Largo e Cantabile, Allegro

  9. Nicola Matteis (fl. c. 1670 – after 1713) – Aria Amorosa


  

"CORONA AUREA"  Lithuanian birbynė: XVII Century Music in Poland and Lithuania

  1. Anonymus  Kolenda (Carol) - (Sapieha Album, 17thCentury)                                                                          

  2. Tarquinio Merula (1595–1665) - Canzon Decima seconda a 2: La Scarinza                                  

  3. Adam Jarzębski (1590 – c1648)  - Concerto a 2: Corona aurea (Intavolation of motet by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)      

  4. Adam from Wagrowiec (x. Jadam) Fantasia super secundum tonum (Kraziai Manuscript 17th Century)

  5. Marcin Mielczewski (1600–1651) Canzona Terza a3                                                               

  6. Anonymus  Passemus 98v (Oliva vel Braunsberg Organ Tablature ~1619)                              

  7. Tobias Hume (c1579–1645) Pollish Ayre, Polish vilanell, Pollish Ayer                 

  8. Adam Jarzębski - Concerto a 3: Chromatica                                                                                                                   

  9. Andrea Gabrieli (c1533–1585)  Canzona (Oliva vel Braunsberg Organ Tablature, ~1619)                                                            

  10. Marcin Mielczewski - Canzona Seconda a2                                                                                                                         

  11. Tarquinio Merula - Canzon a 2: La Miradoro (Canzoni da suonare, Libro 4)                                                        

  12. Adam from Wagrowiec (x. Jadam) - Toccata, Canzona, Super secundum tonum (Kraziai Manuscript, 17th Century)                  

  13. Anonymus - 5 Dances: Tantz, Chorea, Tanz, Chorea, Tanz (Oliva vel Braunsberg Organ Tablature, ~1619)  

  14. Adam Jarzębski  Concerto a 3 Spandesa                                                                            

  15. Tarquinio Merula - Ciaccona                    

  16. Anonymus  - 4 Dances: Witany, Tarapata, Pagamoszka, Wychodzony (Jagiellonian Library Manuscript No.10002)