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Baroque flights of fancy from the Academy of Ancient Music

The Academy of Ancient Music opens the baroque era’s musical jokebook at Milton Court for an evening of novelties, parodies and flights of fancy from Biber, Scheidt and Farina.

’Tis Nature’s Voice: the Academy of Ancient Music present a sonic extravaganza from six masters of the Baroque.
Expect the unexpected at this concert from Milton Court in London as Bojan Čičić and the Academy of Ancient Music open the baroque era’s musical jokebook for an evening of novelties, parodies and flights of fancy. Biber, Schmelzer, Farina and Scheidt transform the world around them into music with the sounds of a fencing school, a busy street, a city bell-tower and the chaos and clamour of battle. Expect bagpipes and bullets, pealing bells and rollicking dance tunes – plus a bunch of violins that think they’re harps. This is the baroque era with a smile on its face.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Farina: Capriccio stravagante
Westhoff: Violin Sonata 'Imitazione delle campane'
Walther: Hortulus Chelicus, No. 28: Serenata a un coro di violini
Scheidt: Ludi musici - Galliard battaglia à 5

Interval music: Francesco Piemontesi plays Liszt's Legende S.175 No. 1, St Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds

Schmelzer: Balletto à 4 ‘Fechtschule’
Biber: Mensa sonora, Pars VI
Schmelzer: Polnische Sackpfeiffen
Biber: Battaglia à 10

Academy of Ancient Music
Bojan Čičić director and violin

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Fri 28 Apr 2023 19:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Carlo Farina

    Capriccio stravagante

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Bojan Čičić.

  • Johann Paul von Westhoff

    Violin Sonata 'Imitazione delle campane'

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Bojan Čičić.

  • Johann Jakob Walther

    Hortulus Chelicus, No.28: Serenata a un coro di violini

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Bojan Čičić.

  • Samuel Scheidt

    Ludi musici - Galliard battaglia a 5

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Bojan Čičić.

  • Franz Liszt

    Legende S.175 No.1 - St. Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.

  • Johann Heinrich Schmelzer

    Balletto a 4 'Fechtschule'

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Bojan Čičić.

  • Heinrich Biber

    Mensa sonora, Pars VI

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Bojan Čičić.

  • Johann Schmelzer

    Polnische Sackpfeiffen

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Bojan Čičić.

  • Heinrich Biber

    Battaglia a 10

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Bojan Čičić.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Se di lauri (Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K87, Act 1)

    Singer: Michael Spyres. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro. Director: Francesco Corti.
    • Contra-Tenor.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 14.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in C major K.515 for strings

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.

  • Franz Liszt

    Après une lecture du Dante (Années de pèlerinage - Deuxième Année: Italie)

    Conductor: Alexander Gibson. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Liszt: Piano Recital.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 28 Apr 2023 19:30
    BBC Radio 3