Salotto Byron by Byron, G. G., Wolf, Brahms, Schumann, Satie, Ravel, С (2019/2019), Refettorio Museo Nazionale, Равенна, Италия

A genuine tribute to the British poet in the city of Ravenna, where he lived from 1819 to 1821. A journey marked by readings from his texts, accompanied by Satie’s Gnossiennes, which are capable of paving the way for two core themes of his adventurous life. First the liaison with Teresa Guiccioli from Ravenna, with an intimate and passionate letter, and the bond with Greece, where “a unique immense kingdom of wonders stretches around, and all the stories of the Muses seem to be true”, recalled by The Isles of Greece. Again a reading, “She Walks in Beauty”, in which the Poet understands the actual mystery of women: an apparition to be conquered. The woman passes, appears but does not disappear, because he stops her with the words of the poem, making her his and ours forever. In combination with French music, Greece makes its appearance in the Gymnopédies by Satie and in the Cinq mélodies populaires grecques by Ravel, and also in the German Lieder by Brahms and Wolf. Wolf’s other Lied translated by Gildemeister is Sonne der Schlummerlosen, on the Byronian Sun of the sleepless that, revisited by Körner, returns in An den Mond in op. 95 by Schumann, framed by the two heroic songs, always on texts by Byron.