The penultimate event in "Journey to England," the series of cultural salons at the Teatro Verdi organized in Sassari by the Cooperativa Teatro e/o Musica, will be held on Tuesday, November 17th at 7:00 PM. “Songs of Travel” is on the program, a concert featuring the Sassari baritone Marco Solinas and the pianist Andrea Certa .
The program will explore the relationship between music and poetry through the compositions of three important British composers: Gerald Finzi, Frederick Delius, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. The heart of the evening will be Vaughan Williams's Songs of Travel , a cycle of poems in which travel takes on a profoundly human and interior dimension. The journey becomes a metaphor for existence, encompassing aspirations for freedom, love, solitude, memories, and reflections on the passage of time. These are pages of great expressive intensity, in which the voice interprets universal sentiments, supported by piano writing capable of evoking the atmospheres and landscapes of the soul.
The program will be rounded out with lyrics by Gerald Finzi, taken from Let Us Garlands Bring , based on Shakespeare's texts, and excerpts from Frederick Delius's Seven Songs from the Norwegian . Three different musical sensibilities, united by the ability to translate the poetic word's suggestions into sound, combining expressive refinement, intimacy, and references to nature.
The concert will be presented by Andrea Ivaldi , curator of the entire festival, who will accompany the audience in listening to and exploring the works.