Virtuosissime

Musica Antica present music by four of the most celebrated female composers of their day - Barbara Strozzi, Antonia Bembo, Settima and Francesca Caccini - alongside music by the men who taught them: Giulio Caccini, Jacopo Peri, and Francesco Corbetta and Francesco Cavalli.

​Remaining true to the way in which this music would have been performed in the seventeenth century, the majority of this programme will be sung self-accompanied, and all of it accompanied on instruments which were most commonly used in the intimate, domestic settings in which women performed secular music: the viol, theorbo and guitar, and pentagonal virginals.

​This programme will also be performed at 6:45pm. Each concert will last 50 minutes.