The Music of Rome & Madrid 1650
- Venue: Canongate Kirk
- Date: 23 Apr '10
- Time: 19:45 - 21:00
- Price: £10 / £7 (usual concessions) at the door
- Venue Address: 153 Canongate, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH8 8BN
Event Details
The music of Italy and Spain in the 1650s comes alive in remarkable songs and instrumentals by leading composers, in particular Girolamo Kapsberger - the ‘noble German of Venice' whose songs of love and hunting are vivid and vibrant - and Jose Marin, the renegade priest and convicted homicide who was also known as the finest composer in Madrid, and whose songs evoke the rhythms, the passions and the contradictions of an empire spiralling into bankruptcy and decadence.
Fires of Love, Scotland's professional Early Music quartet, present this remarkable programme using two voices, theorbo, baroque guitar, woodwind and percussion.
"An excellent group" - The Herald
"All human life and emotion is here" - The Scotsman
Fires of Love
