Música d'Outrora

Música d'Outrora is an early music ensemble founded in 2022 by Galician director and harpsichordist Pablo Devigo (1989). Active internationally, the group specialises in 17th-century Italian repertoire, focusing particularly on the stylus phantasticus, a Baroque compositional style characterised by freedom, fantasy and dramatic contrasts.

Artistic Approach The ensemble develops what Devigo defines as "historical research taken to its ultimate consequences", applying documentation of 17th-century performance practices to specific repertoires. Their programming centres on forgotten or rarely performed composers alongside new approaches to canonical works. For example, their work with Dario Castello's sonatas employs instrumentations derived from Monteverdi's Orfeo. For the ensemble, emotional expression guides all interpretation, using research to discover what is different in the repertoire and taking it to its ultimate consequences.

Career and Projects Between 2023 and 2024, Música d'Outrora participated in the BREMF Live! programme at the Brighton Early Music Festival, which includes mentorships, concerts and educational activities. The Continuo Foundation awarded the ensemble a grant for their 'Across the Alps' tour throughout the United Kingdom, exploring musical dialogues between Italy and other European countries.

Recording Production Their debut album, Still Life (Deux-Elles, September 2025), was recorded during a residency at St Alban's Church in Birmingham between July and August 2024, with support from Angel Early Music and the Continuo Foundation. The church, a historic BBC recording venue since the 1960s, offers exceptional acoustics that have been utilised for BBC Radio 3 concerts and early music productions. The album includes the first recording of works by Gregorio Strozzi and Ignazio Albertini alongside sonatas by Castello, Buxtehude and Stradella. The album, co-produced by Pablo Devigo and Ignasi Cambra, features the collaboration of Christi Park (violin), Timothy Lin (violoncello and viola da gamba), Asako Ueda (theorbo and archlute), Louis Moisan (guitar), Claas Harders (lirone), and Dávid Budai (violone).

Ensemble members:
Timothy Lin viola da gamba, violoncello
Asako Ueda violin, theorbo, archlute
Louis Moisan guitar, theorbo
Pablo Devigo harpsichord, chamber organ