Stylus Fantasticus

Virtuoso flights of fancy from 17th and 18th-century Germany and France

Paul Luchkow, baroque violin (Victoria) ~ Sam Stadlen, viola da gamba (London, UK) ~ Michael Jarvis, harpsichord (Victoria)

"The fantastic style is...the most free and unrestrained method of composing...bound to nothing, neither to words nor melodic subject. It was to display genius and to teach the hidden design of harmony…" - Scholar and scientist Athanasius Kircher in 1650

With music by Buxtehude, Biber, Louis Couperin, Marais, Telemann, and Rameau, this promises to be an evening to remember.