Brighton Early Music Festival: EMS 13 November

[doversoul1]

Fiona Talkington presents a concert from the 2016 Brighton Early Music Festival which celebrates the work of the 17th-century German Jesuit scholar and polymath Athanasius Kircher, who was fascinated by everything from fossils to birdsong. The programme includes music by Telemann, Rebel, Handel, Gluck, Pachelbel and Stephen Storace
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082k94g

[doversoul1]

Athanasius Kircher, Juan Arañés, Andrea Falconiero, or Stephen Storace anyone?

‘Music is connected to the creation of the world...’

(Revised)
I thought Žak Ozmo, the director of L'Avventura and Fiona Talkington explained very well, some interesting points in early theories about music. The music played was (as far as I am concerned) all rarely heard and well played. A very enjoyable programme.

[Quarky]

Athanasius Kircher, Juan Arañés, Andrea Falconiero, or Stephen Storace anyone?

‘Music is connected to the creation of the world...’

(Revised)
I thought Žak Ozmo, the director of L'Avventura and Fiona Talkington explained very well, some interesting points in early theories about music. The music played was (as far as I am concerned) all rarely heard and well played. A very enjoyable programme.

Actually, the discussion I found was at least as interesting as the music - the music being very good. I could understand, when all the world's knowledge could be held in a single head (Kircher) that music could be linked to Astronomy and other disciplines. This link seems to have been retained by composers, even to the current age, where the relation between music and astrophysics and high energy physics is so tenuous as to be non-existent. I should imagine that the average scientist listens to rock music after a day studying spreadsheets.