The new National Library in Bucharest will be home to a classical music show between September 3 and 8. Music by Bach, Vivaldi, Scarlatti and Händel will waft over the Dambovita river, on the National Library Esplanada, part of the festival Baroque Nocturnal. Access to all events within the festival is free.

The event, organized by the cultural association Kitarodia and the National Library, will start with a lute performance by Olivia Iancu and Claudiu Lobonţ (in picture) on September 3, from 20:30, continuing with a guitar recital by Maxim Belciug and Tiberiu Gogoanţă closing the evening with music by John Dowland, Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach.

The full schedule of the festival below:

Tuesday, September 4: violin and guitar recital; violinist Natalia Pancec; medieval show by Nomen Est Omen

Wednesday, September 5: Soprano Rodica Vica and her team, with Handel works and opera pieces.

Thursday, September 6: guitar recital by Maxim Belciug and cello player Răzvan Suma, music by Gaspar Sanz, Ernst Gottlieb Baron, Robert de Visée, François Couperin, Jean Philippe Rameau and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Friday, September 7: guitar performance by Olivia Iancu and Claudiu Lobonţ, music by Domenico Scarlatti and Santiago de Murcia; harp performance by on Ivan-Roncea

Saturday, September 8: harpsichord recital by Irina Năstase. Festival ends with soloist Pilar Diaz Romero singing 16th to 18th century Neapolitan music.

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