This week, the ceremonial concert hall of the Croatian House in Split will be the venue for three extremely attractive performances. On Monday (April 24), the audience will have the opportunity to listen to French-Croatian as part of the Heritage Cycle Ensemble Dialogos who will perform "Hecuba", the day after that he will present himself with a program on saxophone and piano Duo Delangle, and as the crown of a rich concert week, he will perform on April 27 Tamara Obrovac Quartet which will present the new sound carrier "Nuvola".

The ceremonial concert hall of the Hrvatski dom Split will be the venue for three extremely attractive performances next week. On Monday (April 24), the audience will have the opportunity to listen to French-Croatian as part of the Heritage Cycle Ensemble Dialogos who will perform "Hecuba", the day after that he will present himself with a program on saxophone and piano Duo Delangle, and as the crown of a rich concert week, he will perform on April 27 Tamara Obrovac Quartet which will present the new sound carrier "Nuvola".

Ensemble Dialogos in his performance, he will refer to one of the most shocking ancient stories, that of the Trojan queen Hecuba. The Thracian king Polymestor, to whom Hecuba's son Polydorus was entrusted, betrayed his trust and killed the boy out of greed, which was the trigger for Hecuba's unbearable pain and demonic revenge. This is the motif that the Ensemble Dialogos uses and combines from two sources - the version of the Venetian polyhistor Dolce and the tragedy of the Croatian dramatic genius Marin Držić. Greeks and Trojans sing and clash in old Italian and Croatian dialects in this work for solo singers, instrumentalists and a small group of traditional singers from Dalmatia who comment on the action like a choir. The result is a musical performance in which the timeless power of Greek myth meets the Venetian Renaissance finesse and the rugged power of Dalmatia on the threshold of the Ottoman Empire.

On Tuesday at 20 p.m., he will present himself Duo Delangle which make up a saxophonist Claude Delangle and a pianist Odile Catelin-Delangle. Soloist, scholar and pedagogue Claude Delangle is one of the greatest contemporary saxophonists and a leading representative of the French saxophone school. In addition to being an unsurpassed interpreter of classical works, he collaborates with recognized composers (L. Berio, P. Boulez, T. Takemitsu, A. Piazzola), and promotes younger composers as well. Odile Catelin-Delangle shows great affection for the music of the twentieth century in her wide repertoire. She performed in eighty premieres (Denisov, Taïra, Nodaïra, Hosokawa, Louvier, etc.) and regularly collaborated with numerous composers as an interpreter, but also as a teacher in her class at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. Since the 80s, she has toured every corner of the planet with her husband, saxophonist Claude Delangle, and recorded about fifteen records with him.

Favorite of the local audience, singer, flautist and composer Tamara Obrovac she is best known for her work with her Transhistria Ensemble, which is characterized by collaboration with guitarists and accordion players. During her career, she experimented by collaborating with various musicians. The albums "Neću više jazz cantati" (Aquarius Records, 2009), which she recorded in a style close to funk with the band Transhistria Electric, and "Madirosa" (Aquarius Records, 2011), which she recorded in a crossover style with the Transhistria Ensemble, stand out for their uniqueness. and the string Epoque Quartet, as well as the CD "Črni kos" (Extraplatte, 2006, Austria) with arrangements of folk songs from Gradišće.

Her work is recognized internationally and serves as a unique promoter of Croatia and its contemporary cultural identity. The most important characteristics of her art are the constant search for new possibilities of expression and the lurking of inspiration at the moment of performance when referring to energy or stimuli. All these characteristics are also present on the new sound carrier, "Nuvola" (Cantus, 2023), which will be presented at the concert in Split. Although she has kept her unique approach, her new songs are completely different from everything she has done so far - more contemplative, spiritual and suggestive. This performance will feature great musicians (Matthias Dedić, Žigo Golob and Krunoslav Levačić) at the same time be a dedication to Tamara's late father, but also an intimate confession, artistic consensus and a completely new level of artistic coherence that will surely delight the Split audience.

Author of the text: Magdalena Mrčela, DalmacijaDanas