{"id":123083,"date":"2024-09-17T13:34:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T11:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2024\/09\/tokyo-kudan-minami-domenico-scarlatti-e-il-flamenco\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:13:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T13:13:33","slug":"tokyo-kudan-minami-domenico-scarlatti-e-il-flamenco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-culturale\/2024\/09\/tokyo-kudan-minami-domenico-scarlatti-e-il-flamenco\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Kudan Minami: Domenico Scarlatti and Flamenco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 September, the fifteenth event in the &#8220;<strong>Tokyo Kudan Minami Concerts<\/strong>&#8221; series presented a programme exploring the connection between the genius of <strong>composer<\/strong> Domenico <strong>Scarlatti<\/strong> and <strong>flamenco<\/strong>, one of the most representative musical genres of Gitano-Andalusian culture. The concert, organised in collaboration with the <strong>Instituto Cervantes<\/strong> and stemming from a project by the <strong>Marco Fodella Foundation<\/strong>, offered a rare opportunity to hear the <strong>fusion<\/strong> of baroque music with the rhythms of Iberian folk tradition.<\/p>\n<p>The concert featured <strong>Spanish harpsichordist<\/strong> Amaya <strong>Fern\u00e1ndez Pozuelo<\/strong>, who performed a programme of <strong>Scarlatti\u2019s<\/strong> music on a harpsichord built in 2008 by the <strong>Florentine master harpsichord maker<\/strong> Franco <strong>Barucchieri<\/strong>. This harpsichord, inspired by a model by the renowned Flemish luthier <strong>Ioannes Ruckers<\/strong> (1578-1642), was kindly provided by the <strong>Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy &amp; Festival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Domenico <strong>Scarlatti<\/strong> (1685-1757), born in Naples and trained in Rome, Venice, and later at the courts of Madrid and Lisbon, was a <strong>pioneer in integrating elements of Spanish folk music into classical composition<\/strong>. His famous harpsichord sonatas incorporate distinctive traits of flamenco, characterised by its incisive and rhythmic beat and expressive melody, free to move with spontaneity and depth. This fusion <strong>influenced many subsequent Iberian composers<\/strong>, including his pupil Padre Antonio Soler, F\u00e9lix M\u00e1ximo L\u00f3pez, and Mateo P\u00e9rez de Alb\u00e9niz.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 12 September, the fifteenth event in the &#8220;Tokyo Kudan Minami Concerts&#8221; series presented a programme exploring the connection between the genius of composer Domenico Scarlatti and flamenco, one of the most representative musical genres of Gitano-Andalusian culture. The concert, organised in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and stemming from a project by the Marco [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[45,32],"class_list":["post-123083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-culturale","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123084,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123083\/revisions\/123084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}