Jean-Marc Aymes & Mara Galassi
Naples was in the 16th and 17th century a fountainhead of artistic activity. With its lively debating culture and its wealthy patronage the city attracted famous artists. Music flourished first and foremost at the royal chapel and at the chapel of la Santa Casa dell’Annunziata. When at the beginning of the 17th century the classical forms of the renaissance started fading, innovative alternatives were offered by composers such as Jean de Macque, Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Ascanio Mayone and Girolamo Frescobaldi. Their repertoire consciously distorts reality by magnifying the bizarre and the obscure. However, above all this Neapolitan music is characterized by a mature sensitivity that translates everything into subtle elegance: the ultimate elegance of mannerism.
Performers
Jean-Marc Aymes, harpsichord & organ | Mara Galassi, triple harp
Programme
Jean de Macque, Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Ascanio Mayone & Girolamo Frescobaldi