Saturday, December 14, 2024, Time 7:00 p.m.
At the the Italian Church of the Most Holy Redeemer in Bucharest, under the patronage of the Italian Institute of Culture in Bucharest

Christmas Concert
“Spiritual harmonies: the sacred voice of the Italian organ”
Organist: M° Bruno Medicina

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1251021509502559

Program

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
dai “Fiori Musicali”
• Missa in Dominicis infra annum “Orbis factor”
-Toccata avanti la Messa
-Kyrie
-Christe
-Kyrie
-Canzon dopo la Pistola
-Recercar dopo il Credo
-Toccata chromatica per la levatione
-Canzon post il Commune

-Tomaso Albinoni (1671 – 1751)
• Adagio in Sol-

Alessandro Marcello (1669—1747)
• Concerto in Do- per Oboe e Archi (Trascr. Bruno Medicina)
-Allegro Moderato – Adagio – Presto

-Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
• Italian Concerto BWV 971 12
Allegro – Andante – Presto
• Toccata e fuga in re- BWV 565
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Life is speeding up: this is the sensation that everyone is increasingly perceiving. Events are happening one after the other (or even at the same time) and allow us no time to pause, breathe or reflect.
Meetings, appointments, queues, obligations, deadlines to meet, everything seems to be getting busy. Not to mention cell phones, which have turned from a convenient work and socializing tool into a nightmare of being constantly connected to sources of stress.

In our race for money, goals, and performance, we try to compress as many experiences as possible into an increasingly shorter time, approaching life with a “quantitative” attitude, inducing the idea “more is better,” without questioning the quality of the moments we live.

I don’t really know where this way of life will take us, with its demands becoming more and more pressing and making us feel like hamsters running in their wheel, but I do know that we are not just made for this and that our spiritual side (yes, we have that too, if anyone had forgotten…) has its own demands and if it does not receive enough attention it will make our lives seem completely meaningless, regardless of the material and social success we may achieve.

Obviously, everyone will choose at will how to disconnect from daily chores to get in touch with this side.

As for me, every year I manage to find time to prepare some early sacred music on the organ, and I feel that these moments spent in the company of the masters of the past are really something special. I really feel that by listening to certain pieces the soul vibrates on a different frequency than usual and that this music – so far from the sensibility of today’s perception – can be a key to access a higher and unsuspected level of knowledge.

If you think you can leave your cell phone off for an hour and want to find out if sacred music helps you get in touch with an often overlooked but important part of yourself, I invite you to the Italian Church in Bucharest on Saturday, December 14 at 7 p.m.

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Bruno Medicina, from Genoa, born in 1959, carried out his musical studies of piano with M° Marco Pasquero and organ and composition with M° Attilio Baronti, graduating from the Conservatory of Turin. While not pursuing a full-time musical career (by profession he is a trainer and coach), he has always maintained a passion for the instrument, which leads him to perform often in Italy and abroad.

Combining his professional activity with music, he has developed a performance model (The H.Y.P.E.R. Coaching Process) that-though originally developed to improve results in business and sports-has proven particularly effective when applied to musical performance as well.

He has therefore been giving master classes dedicated to improving musicians’ performance for many years as part of the “Virtuosity Center” institute he founded and directed.

In Romania, Bruno works as a trainer and coach and runs the business performance consulting company Januensis srl.

www.brunomedicina.com
www.virtuositycenter.com
www.hypercoaching.com
www.mediterraneanwayproject.com