DICHOS DIABOLOS

Programme

Epidemics – Musicians of the Plague

Andrea Falconiero: “La suave Melodia” from Il primo libro di canzone / “Sinfonia quarta” and “L’Eroica” from Il primo libro di canzone / Salomone Rossi: “Sonata duodecima sopra la Bergamasca” from Il quarto libro delle sinfonie et gagliarde, brandi e corrente / Alexander Agricola: “Tandernaken a 3” from Harmonice Musices Odhecaton / Giovanni Battista Fontana: “Sonata quarta” for violin solo from Sonate a 1, 2, 3 / Paolo Cima: “Sonata a 3” from Concerti ecclesiastici / Orlando Gibbons: “Pavana” from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book / “Fantasia a 3” from Fantasias of three parts / Biagio Marini: “Sonata nona per doi fagotti” from Sonate, symphonie, canzoni, Op. 8 / Dario Castello: “Sonata Seconda a 2” from Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Book I / Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: “Sonata 2” from Sonatae unarum fidium

About this event

The Black Death was the most devastating pandemic in the history of mankind. 50 million people, 60% of the population, died in Europe during the 14th century. Dichos Diabolos give us a musical description of the devastating disease in this programme of works by composers who were victim of the plague – Andrea Falconiero, Salomone Rossi, Alexander Agricola, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Paolo Cima, Orlando Gibbons, Biagio Marini, Dario Castello and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer.