Art and Music Festival between Pelmo and Civetta. Dresden, crossroads of Europe:

The musical journey of the Festival concludes where it all began: in the church of San Floriano in Pieve di Val di Zoldo, a symbol of the historical and artistic heritage of the valley.

Amidst the ancient walls of the church and the sounds of the precious Callido organ, the audience is invited to experience a final event that summarizes the spirit of the entire festival: to connect music, art, and territory through the listening of masterpieces performed in the places for which they were conceived.

The concert takes us to 18th century Dresden, one of the cultural capitals of Baroque Europe.

The court of the Electors of Saxony was renowned for the extraordinary quality of its orchestra, considered among the best on the continent.

Musicians from Italy, France, and Germany gathered in this city, creating a cosmopolitan artistic environment where different styles influenced each other.

Dresden thus became a privileged meeting point between the Italian cantabile, French elegance, and the rigor of German tradition, contributing to the birth of a new and highly refined musical language.

Key figures of this season included extraordinary violinists like Johann Georg Pisendel, to whom the concert subtitle The court of violinists is dedicated. A friend and correspondent of Antonio Vivaldi, Pisendel was one of the greatest virtuosos of his time and played a pivotal role in the dissemination of the Italian repertoire in 18th century Germany.

Around his figure developed a lively network of artistic relationships involving composers like Johann Sebastian Bach, Francesco Maria Veracini, Georg Philipp Telemann, and many other protagonists of European music.

The program proposed by Anna Maddalena Ghielmi and Lorenzo Ghielmi retraces this extraordinary intertwining of musical relationships.

The dialogue between violin, organ, and harpsichord allows for an appreciation of the richness of a repertoire in which virtuosity, elegance, and expressive depth coexist in perfect balance.

The compositions alternate moments of intense singability with pages of brilliant instrumental writing, reflecting the vitality of an era that left an indelible mark on the history of Western music.

Anna Maddalena Ghielmi is among the most acclaimed Italian violinists specializing in the performance of early repertoire on historical instruments.

Alongside her, Lorenzo Ghielmi is universally recognized as one of the leading European interpreters of the historical organ and the harpsichord, a major figure in a prestigious international career as a concert artist, teacher, and scholar of Renaissance and Baroque music.

Their collaboration, based on a deep knowledge of historical performance practice, provides the audience with interpretations capable of combining philological rigor, naturalness, and intense musical participation. The venue also contributes significantly to the listening experience.

The church of San Floriano houses important artistic testimonies and hosts the magnificent organ constructed in 1812 by Gaetano Callido with his sons Antonio and Agostino, recently restored and returned to its full voice.

Listening to this repertoire on the church's historical instrument means rediscovering a musical heritage in the acoustic and architectural context for which the organs were conceived, simultaneously enhancing one of the most significant cultural assets of Val di Zoldo.

This concert concludes a journey that, through the ancient churches of the valley, has accompanied the audience on a trip through the great musical schools of Europe.

From Elizabethan England to the Spain of the Siglo de Oro, from the sounds of Bach to the magnificence of the court of Dresden, the Festival has illustrated how music has always been a language capable of uniting places, cultures, and people.

A finale that invites us to carry away not only the memory of splendid concerts but also the discovery of a territory that preserves an artistic, historical, and landscape heritage of extraordinary value, in the heart of the Dolomites.

Free entrance.