The opening concert of Classix Festival 2026 will take place on March 1, symbolically launching an edition dedicated to the relationship between art and thought. Genesis will mark a moment of beginning not only in the festival calendar, but also through a direct encounter with the sound of the cathedral organ.
The evening’s program brings together works written for the liturgical space or in dialogue with it, creating an experience that blends reflection and sonic architecture. A central highlight of the concert will be the music of Giuseppe Sarti, an Italian composer who was present in Iași at the inauguration of the city’s first Catholic organ at the end of the 18th century — a heritage reference rarely brought into focus.
Genesis proposes a pre-classical and Romantic journey in which the recital of Italian organist Raimondo Mazzon is complemented by Classix Collective and the voice of soprano Maria Rădeanu, moving through sonate da chiesa, Italian sacred music, and contemporary sonic meditations. The concert opens the festival as a gesture of listening, of beginning, and of returning to essence.
Concert programme
Vincenzo Petrali (1830-1889) – Messa solenne (1869)
I. Ripieno semplice
II. 6 Versetti per il Gloria
III. Suonata per l’offertorio
IV. Pastorale per l’elevazione
V. Suonata per la consumazione
VI. Marcia per dopo la messa
Giuseppe Sarti (1729–1802): Aria “Lungi dal caro bene” from the opera Giulio Sabino (1781)
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935): Summa, arrangement for string quartet (1991)
Henry Purcell (1659–1695): Chaconne in G minor, Z. 730 (c. 1680)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Sonata da chiesa in C major, K. 336 (1780)
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