Stylus Fantasticus: extravagant and experimental music from the seventeenth century. Featuring the Yale Baroque Ensemble, directed by Robert Mealy.

 

The program will celebrate the experimental and virtuosic chamber music of seventeenth-century Italy and Germany, when composers were inventing a new form of abstract discourse in sound: the sonata. The concert will include feature brilliant and rarely-heard chamber sonatas in the "stilo moderno" by Dario Castello, Biagio Marini, and G.B. Fontana, along with works from the very First Viennese School, including spectacular ensemble sonatas by Antonio Bertali, Johann Schmelzer, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, and others.

 

Tickets available in March at www.carnegiehall.org or CarnegieCharge: 212 247-7800.