The ceremonial concert hall of the Croatian House Split will be the venue for three extremely attractive performances this week. On Monday (April 24), the audience will have the opportunity to listen to the French-Croatian Ensemble Dialogos , which will perform "Hecuba", as part of the Heritage Cycle, the day after that Duo Delangle will present a program on saxophone and piano , and as the crowning touch of a rich concert week, on April 27, the Tamara Obrovac Quartet will perform , presenting their new album "Nuvola".
The ceremonial concert hall of the Croatian House of 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 the French-Croatian Ensemble Dialogos , which will perform "Hecuba", as part of the Heritage Cycle, the day after that Duo Delangle will present a program on saxophone and piano , and as the crowning touch of a rich concert week, on April 27, the Tamara Obrovac Quartet will perform , presenting their new album "Nuvola".
The Dialogos Ensemble will refer to one of the most poignant stories of antiquity, that of the Trojan Queen Hecuba . The Thracian king Polymestor, to whom Hecuba's son Polydorus was entrusted for safekeeping, betrayed his trust and out of greed killed the boy, which was the trigger for Hecuba's unbearable pain and demonic revenge. This is a motif that the Dialogos Ensemble uses and combines from two sources – the version by the Venetian polyhistor Dolce and the tragedy by the Croatian dramatic genius Marin Držić. The Greeks and the Trojans sing and confront each other 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 plot like a chorus. The result is a musical performance in which the timeless power of Greek myth meets Venetian Renaissance finesse and the rugged strength of Dalmatia on the threshold of the Ottoman Empire.
On Tuesday at 20 pm, Duo Delangle will be presented, consisting of saxophonist Claude Delangle and 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, she collaborates with renowned composers (L. Berio, P. Boulez, T. Takemitsu, A. Piazzola), and also promotes younger composers. Odile Catelin-Delangle shows a great fondness for twentieth-century music in her wide repertoire. She has performed in eighty premieres (Denisov, Taïra, Nodaïra, Hosokawa, Louvier, etc.) and regularly collaborated with numerous composers as an interpreter, but also as a pedagogue 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 has recorded about fifteen records with him.
A favorite of the domestic audience, singer, flautist and composer Tamara Obrovac is best known for her work with her Transhistria Ensemble, which is characterized by collaboration with guitarists and accordionists. Throughout her career, she has experimented with collaborating with various musicians. The albums "Neću više jazz kantati" (Aquarius Records, 2009), which she recorded in a funk-like style with the Transhistria Electric band, and "Madirosa" (Aquarius Records, 2011), which she recorded in a crossover style with the Transhistria Ensemble and the string Epoque Quartet, stand out as special. She also recorded the CD "Črni kos" (Extraplatte, 2006, Austria) with covers of Burgenland folk songs.
Her work has been 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 inspiration at the moment of performance when referring to energy or stimuli. All these characteristics are also present on her new album, “Nuvola” (Cantus, 2023), which she will present at a concert in Split. Although she has retained her unique approach, her new songs are completely different from anything she has done before - more contemplative, spiritual and suggestive. This performance with great musicians ( Matija Dedić, Žiga Golob and Krunoslav Levačić ) will also be a dedication to Tamara's late father, but also an intimate confession, artistic harmony and a completely new level of artistic coherence that will surely delight the Split audience.
Author of the text: Magdalena Mrčela, DalmacijaDanas
