Venice - Crucible of Culture

Early Bird, featuring Rebecca Prosser (recorders) and Sharon Gould (harpsichord), will explore music composed in Venice from the 15th to 18th centuries, showing how Venetian styles both influenced Northern European compositions and were inspired by them.

Highlights include settings by Jacob van Eyck and by Marco Uccellini of the folksong Questa dolce sirena, the anonymous chanson J'ay pris amours that was popular all around Europe, and Early Bird's own arrangement of the Concerto in D from L'Estro Armonico by Vivaldi. Also featuring music from Handel's Agrippina, composed and performed in Venice and his first major European success.