Stresa and Lake Maggiore Music weeks is preparing for the inauguration of its 48th edition. The suggestive peek preview of this international event will, as usual, be the Spring concerts: five outdoor weekend events between 2nd and 17th May, entitled Pentagramma floreale [the floral staff]. Music of a very high standard will be performed in the lake's gardens in bloom.

The locations involved in Pentagramma Floreale are among teh most beautiful on Lake Maggiore: from Stresa, with its lakefront facing Isola Bella of the Borromeo Islands and in the Luxurious Villa Pallavicino in Verbania, in the splendid Villa S. Remigio arch and in Villa Rusconi Clerici. Finally the event will reach the Angera Borromeo Fortress with its breathtaking view of the Lombard views of the lake.

The Pentagramma Floreale programme:

• Saturday 2nd May at 17.00 - Villa San Remigio in Verbania Concert by polish group Motion Trio
• Sunday 3rd May at 18:00 - Rocca Borromeo in Angera Ensemble of wind instruments Concerto Palatino will perform music from the renaissance and Baroque eras
• Saturday 9th May, at 17:00 - La Palazzola Stresa Lakefront. Highlight of the series with pianist and composer Michael Nyman
• Saturday 16th May at 17.00 - Villa Pallavicino Park in Stresa Concert by The Israel Philharmonic Brass Quintet
• Sunday 17th May, at 17.00 Verbania, Villa Rusconi Clerici Closing concert with violin, clarinet and piano trio of Gabriele Pieranunzi, Alessandro Carbonare e Enrico Pieranunzi.

Following this first series of events, the Festival will return in the summer to its wonderful and exclusive locations, or rather the Santa Caterina del Sasso Retreat, the Borromeo buildings on Isola Bella and Isola Madre, the Vogogna Visconteo Castle, the Madonna di Campagna Church in Verbania, Villa Ponti in Arona, the Sacro Monte of Ss. Trinita in Ghiffa and others. The first event will be the music review Meditazioni in Musica, from 1st to 9th August following that, from 21st August to 5th September the series Incontri e dialoghi will take place.

Contacts:
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