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All the colors of Classiche Forme 2025
The baroque of Lecce with its range of colours from white to golden, the masseria dotted with the green-grey of the olive trees and the brown of the soil, the deep blue of the Salento sea: from July 13th to 20th 2025, the colours of Apulia will light up the ninth edition of Classiche Forme, the international chamber music festival founded and directed since 2017 by pianist Beatrice Rana, promoted by the Associazione Musicale Opera Prima, with the support of the MIC - Ministry of Culture, the Apulia Region and SIAE as part of the “Per chi Crea” project, in collaboration with the Province of Lecce, the City of Lecce, the University of Salento, Terre del Capo di Leuca and the Lecce Biblio-museum Pole.
Eight concerts and three conversations in iconic locations in the Salento (normally not used for chamber music) to form an unprecedented ‘sound postcard’ thanks to programmes devised by Beatrice Rana for her ‘friends’: internationally renowned artists who will gather to make music together in the ever-popular cloisters of Lecce, in the farms of Supersano and Casamassella and, for the first time, in Santa Maria di Leuca, where the easternmost tip of Italy faces the sea.
The program
'Organising a festival like Classiche Forme, dipping into and involving the public in a week of concerts, encounters and great performers,' says Beatrice Rana, 'is my way of creating new connections between music and current events every year.
Our art has always had a strong identity power: this is why I am committed to making Salento, for a week, the heart of the international chamber music scene, not without an open reflection on social issues and, in particular in 2025, on the power of listening, which is so mistreated today.
The backbone of this year's programming is held by composers who have drawn inspiration from this theme. From Mozart to Weill, from Messiaen to Weinberg: their pages have often made themselves interpreters of their era, just as today's pages by Verunelli, Sollima and Panfili - who has written a new Quartet especially for us - do of contemporaneity. Space will also be given to the music of Ravel, an indispensable 20th century composer, whose 150th anniversary of his birth falls in 2025'.
Also in 2025 Classiche Forme will be preceded, on July 12th, by the Concert for the City in the Belloluogo Park in Lecce, where the Classiche Forme Oasis was born in 2022.
This year, moreover, the festival will inaugurate a series of initiatives dedicated to young people, an OFF section, to broaden the possibilities of participation in the concerts and also opportunities for knowledge and training.