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<\/a>The Virgola Choir flanked a significant a cappella activity with some important performances of the baroque repertoire with orchestra (Durante, Charpentier, Caldara, Vivaldi) and remarkable experiences with contemporary music.
\nAs first national execution they performed Knut Nysted\u2019s \u201cStabat Mater\u201d (Pescara 2008), Antonello Neri\u2019s Oratorio \u201cCelestino V\u201d (L\u2019Aquila, 2007), Hanns Eisler\u2019s \u201cLa linea di condotta\u201d, Kurt Weill\u2019s \u201cIl consenziente\u201d. As first execution ever they performed various pieces composed by young italian and foreign composers.
\nThe Virgola Choir won the 1st prize at the Competition \u201cF. Marcacci\u201d (2003), the 2nd prize at the 28th National Competition \u201cGuido d\u2019Arezzo\u201d and in 2013 at the 3rd National Competition of Fermo. The Choir was guest of the International Festival \u201cPietre che cantano\u201d and of the International Art Factory in Montepulciano (2007, 2008, 2009). They performed also in Scotland (St. Giles Cathedral in Edimburgh and Dumferline Abbey), Spain, Poland.
\nDuring the season 2014\/15 the Virgola Choir cohoperated with the famous guitarist Giampaolo Bandini in order to perform Bernardo Juli\u00e0\u2019s \u201cConcerto Juglar\u201d and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco\u2019s \u201cRomancero Gitano\u201d; in the same season the choir performed Haendel\u2019s \u201cDixit Dominus\u201d for solo voices, chorus and orchestra. In 2016 they went back to Poland as guests for the \u201cGaude Mater\u201d International Festival of Sacred Music.<\/p>\n
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Italy –\u00a0Pescara The Virgola Choir flanked a significant a cappella activity with some important performances of the baroque repertoire with orchestra (Durante, Charpentier, Caldara, Vivaldi) and remarkable experiences with contemporary music. As first national execution they performed Knut Nysted\u2019s \u201cStabat Mater\u201d (Pescara 2008), Antonello Neri\u2019s Oratorio \u201cCelestino V\u201d (L\u2019Aquila, 2007), Hanns Eisler\u2019s \u201cLa linea di […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":686,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1626","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioguanti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioguanti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioguanti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioguanti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioguanti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioguanti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioguanti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1626\/revisions\/1705"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioguanti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioguanti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}