I am reminded of the appointment on 24 November with the Voxel Choir and the Città Di Roma Choir as part of the Feniarco National Festival of Sacred Music. Due secoli di spiritualità (Two centuries of spirituality) is the title of the concert that promises to be culturally intriguing, given the choice of a programme that is certainly not obvious. We will hear pieces by composers such as Elberdin, Dubra, Garau, Caraba, Dominutti, Bruckner, Mendelssohn, Rheinberger, Brahms, and Pizzetti. Josu Elberdin Badiola is a young Spanish composer with a worldwide reputation for his works. An interesting aspect is that his music is mainly dedicated to children's choirs and has often been performed in the form of stories or musical tales. Rihards Dubra is today considered one of the most influential protagonists of Latvia's centuries-old choral tradition: just listen to his extraordinary sacred production. The purity of his style has many points of contact with that of the so-called sacred minimalists such as Arvo Pärt and John Tavener. Mariano Garau, Italian composer, known for the Cantata 'Hildegard vonBingen: Mystical Child' and more recently with 'Hildegard Von Bingen Mystical Child and The Black Virgin'. His compositions are performed by choirs all over the world. Piero Caraba, an eclectic Roman composer, is well known for his numerous compositions, most of them commissioned and included in the repertoire of important Italian and foreign choral ensembles. His works constitute 'compulsory pieces' in the editions of numerous national and international choral competitions. Franco Dominutti, an interesting composer from Udine, is known for his chamber works, which enjoy continuous success with audiences and critics. Anton Bruckner, one of the greatest German composers of the 19th century who greatly influenced the development of music in the modern age. Today, he is rightly recognised as one of the leading symphonists in history. An excellent organist, Bruckner directed all his talent towards the exaltation of the Almighty. The profound meaning of his poetics lies precisely in an idea of transcendence that remains intact in the face of any earthly event. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, German composer, conductor, pianist and organist of the Romantic period. Mendelssohn composed works of extraordinary skill at a very early age and was credited with reviving the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, which had fallen into oblivion at the time. Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger, composer and organist from Liechtenstein, is remembered for having made the most valuable contribution to organ music since Mendelssohn. His works are characterised by a happy amalgamation of modern romanticism, masterful counterpoint and an ennobled organ style. Johannes Brahms, a German composer, pianist and conductor of the late Romantic period, his music is set in the groove of the classical tradition, conceived in the light of a new historical awareness. With Brahms, composition acquires meaning as a phenomenon in the making. His sense of form and close ties to tradition led his contemporaries to contrast Brahmsian art with that of Wagner, perceived in its more revolutionary aspects. He is described as difficult and epigone, modern and conservative, classicist and romantic, arid and sentimental. His choral production with and without instruments is vast. Ildebrando Pizzetti, a composer, musicologist and music critic from Parma, his musical dramaturgy clearly moved away from 'traditional' melodrama, particularly verismo, while maintaining unconditional admiration for the theatre of Giuseppe Verdi. In fact, Pizzetti introduced a new dramatic language in which music and word interpenetrate to the point of becoming one.

The concert will be held in the Church of St Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr at 9pm.