Anna Stegmann (recorder) & Corina Marti (harpsichord)  Music in the 16th century was closely connected to the human voice, even when played on instruments. The art of diminution, ornamenting a simple line, allowed performers to shape music with expression and individuality. In La Fontegara (1535), Silvestro Ganassi presents the recorder not just as an instrument, but as a means of speech, capable of expressing a variety …

Jean-François Madeuf (natural trumpet) & The Rossetti Players  Barbara Konrad, first violin Yun-Kyung Kim-Fernandez, second violinSylvestre Vergez, viola François-Emmanuel Douchy, bass violinMario Sarrechia, harpsichord “Formerly, the trumpet had its place in noisy military music; now, having learned to play softly, it knows how to accompany the most tender flutes and perform in duets with the most delicate voices.” (Godfrey Keller, Six Sonatas…, dedication to …

Música d’Outrora:  Conor Gricmanis, violin    Pablo Devigo, harpsichord & organ    Louis Moisan, baroque guitar & theorbo    Timothy Lin, viola da gamba & cello    Chun-Yuan Yang, lirone    Still Life: Early Baroque Fantasy explores the radical, improvisatory world of the seventeenth-century stylus phantasticus. Through works by Castello, Stradella, Fontana, Buxtehude and others, Música d’Outrora traces a world of sudden contrasts, rhetorical freedom and intense expression. The programme …