In its 34th year, the Abu Ghosh Music Festival has some truly mouth-watering offerings of works not among its usual vocal repertoire.
By HELEN KAYEopera300.88(photo credit: )
In its 34th year, the Abu Ghosh Music Festival has some truly mouth-watering offerings of works not among its usual vocal repertoire. Plus, some distinguished guests will attend from abroad - lutenist David Miller, countertenor Michael Chance (UK), tenor Daniel Johannssen (Australia) and baritone Andreas Wolf (Germany) - alongside our own choirs and soloists.
The festival takes place during Hol Hamoed Succot at the Kiryat Ye'arim Church and the Crusader Chapel crypt from October 18 through 21.
Miller and Chance present English songs from Dowland (October 21), Johannssen sings with local soloists in Bach's St. Matthew Passion (October 20), while Wolf joins the locals to sing Mendelssohn motets (October 18). Other goodies in the church's 12 concerts include a program of songs of praise by Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Monteverdi and Lotti (1667 - 1740) on October 19 with the A-Capella singers from Jerusalem, an Ave Maria and Lord's Prayer by Verdi in a concert that also includes a song cycle in Ladino (October 21), and of course Bach's great B minor mass to end with (October 21).
Offerings from the crypt include a recital by Sivan and Noga Rotem singing songs in Spanish with Shlomo Yidov on guitar (October 18), early music from France, England and Italy by Morley, Corelli and others with the Il Pastor Fido ensemble (October 20), and the next day it's baroque and renaissance music from Scotland.
The musical day starts at around 11 a.m. and the last concerts are at 7 p.m. There is always plenty of free music at the venue and this year, for the first time, there will be a contest of a-capella choral singing with a first prize of NIS 20,000. Tickets - which disappear at lightning speed - are NIS 95-150.
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