Concerts

Musica d'Outrora

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Música d'Outrora – Still Life: Early Baroque Fantasy

Part I

Dario Castello (c.1590–c.1658)
Sonata Prima (from Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Book II, 1629)

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620–1680)
Sonata Quinta (from Sonatae unarum fidium)

Gregorio Strozzi (fl. early 17th century)
Toccata Quarta per l'elevazione – harpsichord solo

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (c.1580–1651)
Toccata arpeggiata (from Libro Primo d'intavolatura di chitarrone)

Gaspar Sanz (1640–1710)
Jácaras

Alessandro Stradella (1639–1682)
Sinfonia a tre in D minor

Interval – approx. 20 minutes

Part II

Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637–1707)
Trio Sonata in D minor, BuxWV 257

Giovanni Battista Fontana (c.1589–1630)
Sonata Seconda

Alfonso Ferrabosco II (1575–1628)
The Sound out my Voyce

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
Toccata (from Libro Quarto)

Giulio Caccini (1551–1618)
Non ha'l ciel cotanti lumi

Dario Castello
Sonata Seconda (from Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Book II)

This concert forms part of the UK presentation of Still Life, Música d'Outrora's debut album, and brings the recorded programme into the live space for which much of this music was conceived. The project focuses on early 17th-century chamber repertoire, a period of rapid experimentation in which composers explored new expressive possibilities through bold harmony, contrast, and instrumental colour.

The programme traces the development of the fantastic style across Europe, from the daring sonatas of Dario Castello in Venice to works by Schmelzer, Buxtehude, Fontana, Stradella, and others, alongside solo keyboard and plucked-instrument repertoire by Strozzi, Kapsberger, Sanz, and Caccini. Performed on period instruments, the music moves freely between sacred and secular contexts, virtuosic display and introspection, reflecting a moment when instrumental music began to speak with a new rhetorical and emotional intensity.

National Centre for Early Music
St Margaret's Church
Walmgate
York YO1 9TL

7.30pm

£20 (£16 concessions)