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Milton Court Concert Hall
Silk St
Barbican
London
EC2Y 9BH
England
Programme
Carlo Farina – Capriccio stravagante
Johann Paul von Westhoff – Violin sonata no.3 in D minor 'imitazione delle campane'
Johann Jakob Walther – Serenata a un coro di violini, no.28 in D major
Samuel Scheidt – Ludi musici
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Balletto a 4 in G 'Fechtschule'
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Mensa Sonora: Pars IV in B-flat major, C72
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Polnische Sackpfeiffen
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Battalia à 10
Performers
Bojan Cicic – director / baroque violin
Academy of Ancient Music
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Programme Note
Expect the unexpected, as Bojan Čičić opens the baroque era’s musical jokebook for an evening of novelties, parodies and flights of fancy by Biber, Schmelzer and their contemporaries.
Humanity is part of nature too – and never more so than when we’re transforming the world around us into music. For composers like Biber, Schmelzer, Farina and Scheidt, there was nothing that wasn’t musical: a fencing school, a busy street, a city bell-tower or the chaos and clamour of battle.
You’ll hear them all in this flamboyant sonic extravaganza from six baroque masters letting their imaginations run off the leash. Expect bagpipes and bullets, pealing bells and rollicking dance tunes – plus a bunch of violins that think they’re harps. They’re painted from life by Bojan Čičić and Academy of Ancient Music – performers who know that the baroque era was at its best when it had a smile on its face.
