Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Details

Brompton Cemetery Chapel
Brompton Cemetery
Fulham Road
Kensington

London
SW10 9UG
England


Programme

Claudio MonteverdiZefiro torna e di soavi accenti, SV 251
KapsbergerPassacaglia
Francesca CacciniLasciatemi qui solo
Barbara StrozziL'Eraclito Amoroso
Barbara StrozziBegli Occhi
Barbara StrozziAmor Dormiglione

Performers

Hannah Ely – soprano
Lucinda Cox – soprano
Toby Carr – theorbo
Aileen Henry – Harp

Fieri Consort

Programme Note

Barbara Strozzi lived a life of high musical achievement and scandal in the Venice of the seventeenth century. A prolific and successful published composer in her own time, she was also said to have acted as courtesan at musical and intellectual meetings where “clothes were optional”. This concert of beautiful and florid soprano solos and duets composed by Strozzi and her contemporaries, Claudio Monteverdi and Francesca Caccini, will explore Strozzi's reception, and whether the scandal surrounding her was justified.

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