Ballade vénitienne

Description

Venice, in the 17th century, witnessed all the upheavals of music. It was a time of splendor where both writing and instrument-making developed, with the rise of the violin and the recorder, experimentation around the continuo without bass or keyboard, and the golden age of the sackbut. First album by the ensemble Tumbleweeds, under the direction of Claire-Ombeline Muhlmeyer, "Ballade vénitienne" fully embraces this abundance, with works by Castello, where the sackbut rivals the violin in virtuosity, Grandi, Kapsberger, Marini, or even Uccellini and Frescobaldi. All having passed through the Serenissima, they each contributed to the incredible expansion that would impose, in the following century, Venetian influence across Europe.