A Galway Early Music Festival Event

Aisling Kenny (soprano), Yonit Kosovske (Harpsichord), Eamon Sweeney (theorbo/bandora/baroque guitar)

La Fresca Rosa celebrates vocal and instrumental chamber music inspired by the rich imagery and intensely emotional expression that flourished in Italy throughout the first half of the 17th century. Timeless themes of love, innocence, passion and jealousy are explored in a vibrant and varied selection of works by Giulio Caccini, Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Claudio Monteverdi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Luigi Rossi and Luzzasco Luzzaschi.

Barbara Strozzi’s Lagrime Mie forms a moving centrepiece to the programme around which is woven a garland of well-loved classics with lesser known gems about giggling maidens and young nymphs, sweet songs and sorrowful sighs, and lots of musical chattering about the birds, the bees, and budding flowers.